Stoke dealer given suspended sentence over Fenton drugs raid
Jonathan Gent, 27, of Tunstall, was given a two-year-seven-month prison sentence suspended for three years at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court for dealing heroin, crack cocaine, monkey dust and cannabis. Police found the drugs when they forced their way into a Fenton house in June 2023.
🇬🇧 Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire · United Kingdom
27-year-old Jonathan Gent, of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, was given a
two-year-seven-month prison sentence suspended for three years at Stoke-on-Trent
Crown Court on 5 November 2026.[1]He had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing
to being concerned in the supply of heroin and of crack cocaine and to
possessing monkey dust and cannabis with intent to supply.[1]Monkey dust is a
street name for the synthetic drug MDPHP, and the sentence covered four separate
offences.[1]
In June 2023 police forced their way into a home in Fenton after information
linked it to drug dealing in the local community.[1]Gent tried to leave
through the back door as officers entered but was caught before he could escape.[1]A search of Gent and the house found deals of monkey dust and cannabis.[1]His phone showed he was advertising the drugs for sale along with heroin
and crack cocaine.[1]He was taken into custody for questioning and later
charged with the offences.[1]
Detective Sergeant Marc Proctor of the City Proactive Team said officers were
carrying out warrants against drug dealers across Stoke-on-Trent every day.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Convicted
1
Sentenced
1
Prison
2 years and 7 months suspended for 3 years
Agency
Staffordshire Police
Agency type
Police, Court
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Possession
Setting
Home
Charges
being concerned in the supply of heroin; being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine; possession with intent to supply monkey dust; possession with intent to supply cannabis
Callum Roper, 22, of Holton Road, Barry, was jailed for 30 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting offences involving the supply of cannabis and magic mushrooms. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of both drugs between 3 December 2025 and 14 September 2026 and had been remanded in custody awaiting sentence.
Bolton Crown Court sentenced seven members of three linked drug gangs that trafficked cocaine and cannabis between Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. Five men received prison sentences of up to eleven and a half years, while two couriers received community orders and two leaders await later sentencing.
Daniel Thompson, 36, was found with 8,223.6 grams of cannabis resin, valued at up to £35,950, when officers searched a house on Moss Side Lane in Rixton in July 2023. Chester Crown Court gave him a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted possessing the resin with intent to supply and possessing cocaine.
Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.2236 kgPrison 9 months suspended for 12 months
Bradford Crown Court jailed Alfie Leahy, 21, for five years and Connor Broadbent, 26, for three years and four months over drugs found when police raided two homes in the Holmewood area at dawn on 17 July 2026. Cannabis was seized at a Grayswood Crescent address and cocaine, cash and jewellery at Dawson Street; police put the total street value of the drugs at more than £22,000.
Charged 2Prison 5 years (Leahy); 3 years and 4 months (Broadbent)
