Tyrone Potter, who was known by the street name Nemo. A major dealer who controlled Basingstoke s drug scene has been jailed. Tyrone Potter, who went by the street name Nemo, was one of the leading figures in a cartel of county lines drug networks that operated in the town. His line operated for almost three years, with links to Kingston and Reading, and was responsible for selling 10 kilograms of Class A drugs - equivalent to a street value of £1 million. Potter, 25 from Earley, Reading, started a cartel with his Nemo line alongside Ahmed Abdullah and Antonio Abayomi, who ran the Monster and Bestie lines in the town.
Drug dealer Nemo sentenced to more than a decade in prison for running cartel A drug dealer responsible for the sale of £1 million of Class A drugs in Basingstoke has been jailed for more than a decade. Tyrone Kelvin Potter, who was known by the street name Nemo, was one of the leading members of a cartel that ran in the town since 2018. It operated for almost three years, including during the Covid pandemic, and used vulnerable drug addicts that lived in Basingstoke to act as a barrier to police investigations. Hampshire Constabulary started a thorough investigation into the Basingstoke drugs scene after Taylor Williams was murdered in the town in August 2019 - and have seen several people appear before the courts in the last six months.
POLICE have busted drugs network Nemo - and the nine dealers have been sent to prison. As previously reported in The Gazette, detectives were closing in on a county lines operation running in Basingstoke called Nemo. It came up during the murder trial into the death of London teenager Taylor Williams, who was stabbed to death by a rival dealer in South View in August, 2019. At a separate court hearing on Thursday (December 17), nine people admitted to county lines conspiracy in Basingstoke and were sentenced to 46 years in prison. The eight men and one woman were part of a cartel of four networks known as the Nemo, Monster, Bestie, and Smallz lines that operated in the town between December 2018 and October 2019.