Bilston man who made £330,000 from drugs ring to pay back just £2,750
A key figure in a Black Country drugs ring made more than £330,000 from his crimes, a court has heard.
Dadlin Sutton was last year jailed for 13 years for his role in enforcing the infamous cocaine run between Wolverhampton and Aberdeen.
A proceeds of crime hearing at Wolverhampton Crown Court this week heard how the benefit to the 25-year-old from Queen Street, Bilston, was £333,292.
However, the brief hearing was told he has only £2,753 in assets to be handed back as part of the ill-gotten gains. The proceeds of crime order for that sum was granted by Judge Martin Walsh.
Sutton was jailed along with Jahral Jacobs after both being found guilty of conspiracy to import and supply cocaine after a trial.
Jacobs, aged 36, of Hilton Street, West Bromwich, had absconded abroad but was arrested and sentenced after he returned to the UK. He had been on the run after being allowed to attend a family funeral in Jamaica but failed to return and attend court afterwards.
The court was previously told that thousands of pounds passed in and out of Sutton's account from drug dealing.
He moved his operation to Aberdeen and money was taken in and out of bank accounts held by various people in the West Midlands area.
Sutton was jailed for 13 years for the conspiracy and also 12 months for money laundering, to run concurrently and two months for the bail matter to go consecutively.
Three women who were described as 'gangsters molls' also allowed their bank accounts to be used to transfer almost £50,000 in drugs money between 2011 and 2013 in connection with the drug ring.
Shereen Bailey, Renice White and Simone Richards had money paid into their accounts from the business run between the Black Country and Aberdeen. They were all given suspended sentences when they were taken before the courts.
