Published date: 02 March 2016 |
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NEIGHBOURS became fed up of the number of callers at the home of John Cutler on Deeside.
They rang the police because they feared drugs were being dealt with from the property.
Mold Crown Court heard they were right – because heroin and crack cocaine was seized by police who raided his home at Station Road in Queensferry.
Yesterday Cutler, 41, was jailed for two-and-a-half years after he admitted possessing both class A drugs with intent to supply.
A judge told him he was doing it an area where the harm and misery caused by hard drugs was extremely high.
Judge Niclas Parry told him all the telltale signs were there to confirm he was involved in drugs supply.
The neighbours were fed up at the level of visitors.
There was a raid, drugs were recovered and on his mobile phone were text messages indicative of supply.
The case was aggravated by the fact it involved two class A drugs and that one of them was of a particularly high purity where the potential for profit was greater.
“This activity occurred in a part of North Wales where you have learned from your own experience the harm and misery caused by class A drugs is extremely high,” he said.
Prosecuting barrister Anna Pope told how police received information about suspected drug activity.
Local residents believed drug supply was going on and the police executed a search warrant in August of last year.
Two bags containing about £220 worth of heroin and £190 worth of crack cocaine were found by the sofa, together with a baseball bat and a pick axe handle.
Some of the crack cocaine had a high purity of 63 per cent.
Cutler was on benefit but he had £220 in cash on him – which the judge confiscated.
Miss Pope said Cutler answered no comment to questions put to him but text messages indicative of drug supply were found on his mobile phone.
He would send text messages to say he had drugs available and other messages made arrangements where and when to meet his customers.
She said some of the messages were being sent on a daily basis.
Andrew Green, defending, said that, while his client had previous convictions, there had been a 16-year gap in his offending.
Cutler had been in a long- term relationship and had three children.
They separated two years ago and he had returned to the use of class A drugs which he had done many years previously.
He had been completely clean for 10 years but after the separation, he returned to the use of drugs and it was a familiar story where he got into debt and starting selling to fund his own addiction.
“His debts had spiralled out of control and he started to deal to fund his own habit. The pattern is crystal clear,” he said.
see-http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/159258/tip-off-to-queensferry-address-led-police-to-seize-crack-dealer.aspx
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