Ruthless Milton Keynes drug dealer who employs local children brags about his five figure weekly profit

The Times newspaper interviewed a young man on Fishermead who called himself ''Fresh'.

He described how he earns a weekly five figure profit by trading in drugs, mainly heroin and crack cocaine.

His 'business' began on the streets of Milton Keynes but now reaches much further afield.

“I’m an entrepreneur, no less than Lord Sugar,” he bragged.

In his mid-20s and from a Somali community, the young man said he had a team of teenage street dealers, couriers, and people who answer the phone.

“If they don’t work, I don’t eat, so they get hurt,” he said. “I got to treat them like family. But if they try and escape, I’ll find them and their families and it’s over.”

One of his “little ones”, a 13-year-old boy, went missing with a delivery of drugs worth up to £10,000, says The Times.

“If I find him, boy,” he said. “It’s madness for him," said Fresh.

The article states: "There is bravado here but he also offers an unguarded inside view into Britain’s drug trade, worth an estimated £11.8 billion a year. Fresh is indifferent to those he exploits, be they drug users, runners or victims of the crime that goes hand in hand with his 'business'."

It adds: "His home turf is the Fishermead estate, built in the 1970s to house poorer communities in Milton Keynes. The estate is also home to the 614 gang, named after the MK6 and MK14 postcodes, which has become one of the local police’s biggest problems.

Lockdown has affected the trade but they continue to sell to the addicts desperate for their daily fixes..

"The dealers spend their cut on designer hoodies, trainers and jewellery, while making drill music videos, hymns to the life of drugs, cash and rivalry. It’s not how the town, founded 53 years ago, was meant to be," the article states.

Fresh grew up with his family, refugees from Somalia, in north London. A decade ago he was sent to live with relatives in Milton Keynes, bringing a knowledge of how the capital’s drug gangs worked.

“We started off running for someone,” he said. “Then you get your own line and take over once you know how the trade works.

“I turned Milton Keynes into Colombia. Milton Keynes is my strip. Always has been, always will be.”

He said if a runner lets him down he will will dock his wages until he’s worked off his deb - adding interest on top

“They’re like dogs, right, if you let the leash go too long then he’ll run around wild, you don’t wanna give him too much, you wanna keep him on a tight leash.”

Fresh said there is a steady trade with heroin addicts but crack is fast gaining in popularity,

.“Crack’s a different thing now... Homeless people account for a lot of my business but don’t get it twisted. I got people that would make headlines on my phone. It’s all walks of life.”

Fresh described how he expands his empire by sending his lieutenants to council estates to distribute free samples and set up a phone line. He also sends a “team of hitters” to deter other gangs.

His gang then rents a flat or moves in with a drug user in return for heroin or crack.

"The addicts often live with the runners and are complicit in distribution, bagging the drugs into £10 or £20 deal," states the article.

Fresh said: “Nobody ain’t forcing it down their throats."

The threat of violence, death or likelihood of imprisonment does not deter him.

“The game’s gonna go on with or without me, so does it matter if I’m here or not? If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be," he told the Times,

Milton Keynes police chief Superintendent Marc Tarbit told the Citizen today: “We know that the article that appeared in The Times is a concerning read. The article looks at cocaine use in the UK and the increase in county drug lines, but it is disappointing that the views of one self-confessed drug dealer have been used to paint a picture of Milton Keynes to a national audience.

He added: “Milton Keynes is, and remains a safe place to live and work. There are areas of drug-related and violent crime in the area, and individuals involved are some that our teams are actively targeting and disrupting.

“Nationally, it is recognised that there is no quick solution to eliminating violent crime, but in Milton Keynes we are working with our partner agencies and we have already taken great strides in disrupting those who choose to deal drugs and commit violent crime in our communities.”

You can read The Times article here