Four illegal firearms and ten kilos of cannabis were uncovered after police stopped a car in Bulwell.
Ervin Doksani was behind the wheel when police acted on intelligence to stop the Vauxhall Insignia he was driving.
That decision, made in the car park of Tesco Extra, in Jennison Street, ultimately led officers to a haul of weapons and drugs.
Having initially seized a vacuum-packed bag containing cannabis from the vehicle, officers searched Doksani’s phone and found an image showing a handgun in a bag.
Concerned by this, police visited a property linked to the 41-year-old in Vernon Road, Basford, where they found several weapons, including one like the one in the photo.
A revolver-style handgun, with ammunition, was first found in a box in the kitchen, before three more self-contained gas cartridge air rifles were discovered in the bedroom.
All three were found to be sufficiently powerful to be classified as prohibited weapons.
Having already uncovered the four firearms, police continued to search the property and found several more vacuum-packed bags of cannabis, bringing the total amount seized to ten kilos.
Doksani – who was later confirmed to be in the country illegally – was eventually charged with a multitude of offences following the car stop on 6 December last year.
While investigating Doksani’s offences, police enquiries led them to another property in Aspley Lane, Bobbers Mill, where they found significant amounts of cocaine, MDMA and ketamine, which implicated the man living there – Sandor Nagy.
Nagy, 30, was duly jailed for three years at Nottingham Crown Court on 24 April, having previously pleaded guilty to possessing Class A and Class B drugs with intent to supply.
Doksani, meanwhile, appeared before the same court on Friday (22 May), having admitted to several offences, including one count of possessing a prohibited firearm and three counts of possessing a prohibited air weapon.
He had also previously pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis with intent to supply and knowingly entering the UK in breach of a deportation order.
Passing sentence, Judge Mark Watson labelled Doksani, of no fixed address, a “career criminal” and sentenced him to seven years and ten months behind bars.
He will likely be deported when he is released from prison.
Detective Sergeant Adam Rose, of Nottinghamshire Police, said:
“First things first, we’re very pleased to see Ervin Doksani join Sandor Nagy in being sent to prison.
“It really should go without saying, but being in possession of a firearm is an incredibly serious offence due to how dangerous it is for everyone in the immediate vicinity.
“Prohibited firearms – like each of the four retrieved from this property – are illegal for a reason, so it was only right that Doksani receive the significant sentence he has.
“If harbouring these weapons was not bad enough, he also allowed his home to become, as the judge put it, a warehouse for wholesale amounts of cannabis.
“Thanks to the officers involved in this investigation, that is no longer the case, with weapons and drugs taken off the streets and out of harm’s way, which is clearly a good thing.”
