A FURTHER five drug dealers and users arrested during a major Dorset Police crackdown this summer have received prison sentences.

Street-level dealers selling class A drugs in Boscombe were targeted as part of Operation Moped, which has seen a total of 41 people arrested and 36 charged.

Among the latest group is an 18-year-old man from Bournemouth, who was 17 at the time the offences were committed. He was handed a four month detention order and drug treatment order.

Three appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, October 31: George Byworth, 43, from Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, received five years and eight months in prison for supplying cocaine and heroin.

Carla Maidment, 33, from Carysfort Road, Bournemouth, was handed a 16 month prison sentence for supplying cocaine and heroin.

Justin Eugene Smith, 39, from Jewell Road, Northbourne, Bournemouth, received a two month suspended sentence for possession of cocaine and heroin.

At the same court on Friday, October 24, David Bate, 38, from Cecil Road, Bournemouth, received a two year suspended sentence with supervision and drug rehabilitation requirement for supplying heroin.

The 18-year-old was sentenced at Bournemouth Youth Court on Thursday, September 25.

The arrests were part of one of the biggest operations in the county in recent years.

Last month Chris Weeks, Dorset Police Regeneration Inspector for Boscombe, said crime and disorder was at a five year low in the area.

He urged residents to contact police on 101 to report information about drug dealing and other illegal activities.