Arlend Titini, 32, of Turnstone Gardens in Southampton and Xhetan Gjoci, 31, of Waterloo Road in Bournemouth, led an organised crime group supplying 27.5 kilos of cocaine.
The South West Regional Organised Crime Unit caught the gang issuing drugs across the UK including London, West Sussex, Cumbria, Avon and Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and Hampshire.
Top left to right: Xhetan Gjoci and Arlend Titini. Bottom left to right: Vladimir Rina, Dejvin Rina and Korab Skepi (Image: SWRCU)
Two Bournemouth men, Vladimir Rina, 37, of Richmond Road and Dejvin Rina, 21, of Soberton Road, were caught assisting the leading members along with Southampton man Korab Skepi, 23, of Bellevue Road.
Between April 2024 and March 2025, police found drugs and cash moved between Bournemouth and Southampton before being distributed across the country.
Titini and Gjoci would organise the commercial-scale sales, while orchestrating those beneath them who managed buyers across the UK.
Gjoci was arrested in March last year while Titini fled to Verona and was extradited in December.
Pauntley Road (Image: SWROCU)
It was said Skepi would prepare the cocaine while Vladimir Rina and Dejvin Rina both played significant roles in distributing it.
Skepi stored large amounts of cocaine and cash in his Southampton home, and paid himself from the money he collected.
He was arrested in January 2025 after officers raided his home and found 3.1 kilos of cocaine, £24,540 in cash and a hand-written ledger of the drugs he delivered.
Pages from Skepi’s ledger (Image: SWROCU)
On the morning of Skepi’s arrest, the other members of the group visited B&Q in Bournemouth to buy storage boxes, cardboard boxes and dustsheets.
They went onto hire a self-drive van and cleared out a drug preparation lab in Southampton.
By March 2025 officers discovered a rental property in Pauntley Road, Bournemouth, being used to prepare and supply cocaine.
Gjoci arrest with white powder on his fingers (Image: SWROCU)
Dejvin Rina was arrested leaving the property while Gjoci was caught fleeing in the back garden with white powder covering his hands.
Following a search of the address, more than 16 kilos of cocaine were found along with drug preparation items including caffeine powder, procaine, acetone, large electric fans and a hydraulic press.
Photo from Skepi’s phone (Image: SWROCU)
In Dejvin Rina’s home, in Soberton Road, Bournemouth, officers found 258g of cocaine, £49,699 in cash, scales, phones and notebooks with named contacts.
More drugs and named contacts were found in Gjoci’s home in Waterloo Road, Bournemouth.
Hide in V Rina’s Citroen (Image: SWROCU)
While a Citroen with a sophisticated hide in the back seat was found at Vladimir Rina’s in Richmond Wood Road, Bournemouth.
Further cocaine and drug paraphernalia was seized at a rented house in Hankinson Road, Bournemouth.
The Drugs Expert Witness valued the 27.5 kilos of cocaine to be between £484,000 and £637,000 wholesale.
During a sentencing at Winchester Crown Court, Gjoci and Titini were jailed for 14 years each.
While, Vladimir Rina was jailed for 11 years and eight months, Dejvin Rina for eight years and eight months and Skepi for 11 years and eight months.