Three men who were involved in a Samurai sword chase and a man who broke into a fish and chip shop are among those jailed in Suffolk this week.
Nolan Akuoko, Keon Graham, Jerome Greaves
Nolan Akuoko, Keon Graham and Jerome Greaves were jailed for their involvement in a Samurai sword chase in Felixstowe.
The trio had previously admitted violent disorder and possession of an offensive weapon.
It followed an incident that took place on December 28, 2020.
The group were caught on CCTV chasing the victim along Coronation Drive and Elizabeth Way, before forcing him into a car.
The car was then driven by the victim along the A14 before being stopped by police in the Nacton area of Ipswich.
Akuoko, 19, of Faraday Road, Ipswich, was sentenced to 19 months in jail. Graham, 23, of no fixed address, was jailed for 30 months, while Greaves, 23, of Highfield Road, was sentenced to 40 months in prison.
Lee Chapman
Lee Chapman was jailed after he broke into a fish and chip shop and popular café in Bury St Edmunds.
The 44-year-old, of no fixed address, used a rock to smash into a window of Nowton Park Café on April 6 last year.
Investigations brought back a positive identity of Chapman, which was then linked to testing of a paving slab outside of Jimmy's Fish and Chip Shop at Hardwick shopping centre on December 29, 2022.
Chapman had been wanted on recall to prison, and had been living under a false name.
After pleading guilty to two counts of burglary at Suffolk Magistrates' Court, he was jailed for a total of months.
Lajbur Ahmadzai
Lajbur Ahmadzai has been sentenced to 12 months behind bars after admitting to attempting to enter the UK without valid entry clearance last November.
Ahmadzai, 37, of Berwick Road in London, was arrested after he tried to leave the Port of Felixstowe hiding under a lorry trailer.
The court heard that Ahmadzai had previously illegally entered the UK in 2014 and had been forcibly removed to Italy.
He returned to the UK illegally in 2017 and in 2019 he’d asked for accommodation which resulted in the Home Office asylum meeting being arranged last year.
Sentencing Ahmadzai, Judge Emma Peters said he had been waiting for an asylum interview with the Home Office and had illegally entered the UK from France in November.
Enri Kadrija
Enri Kadrija was jailed for two years at Ipswich Crown Court for drug dealing offences.
Kadrija, of Ash Grove, London, became involved in drug dealing to pay off a debt to traffickers.
The 23-year-old was caught by police in Ipswich distributing cocaine to customers' postcodes.
From records, it was found he had already delivered drugs worth £1,500 that day.
Jailing Kadrija at Ipswich Crown Court, Judge Emma Peters labelled Kadrija's drug dealing as “almost like Deliveroo for drugs.”
Nicky Bates
Nicky Bates was jailed for 40 months for drug dealing in Lowestoft.
Bates, 34, of no fixed address, ran a drug line in the town, and officers linked him to bulk advertising messages that had been sent out.
He had admitted being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine, cocaine and heroin between March 28 and April 14 this year.
Andrew Thompson, for Bates, told Ipswich Crown Court his client had become involved in supplying drugs to finance his habit.
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