Published date: 01 July 2016 |
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A MAN caught dealing heroin on the streets of Rhyl has been jailed for six years.
Joseph Dodson, 24, had travelled from Liverpool to the resort.
But he was involved in some sort of domestic incident in a shop car park to which the police were called.
When searched he was found to have 80 wraps of heroin and nearly £4,000 in cash on him.
Mold Crown Court heard how text messages were found on his mobile phone which were indicative of drug dealing.
In view of his previous convictions for drugs offences Dodson of Hathersage Road in Huyton, was facing a statutory minimum seven year sentence.
But the judge said that he was allowed to give him credit for his guilty plea and reduced the sentence to one of six years.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said that in March 2013 he had been jailed for 32 months for conspiring to supply heroin.
Then in July 2014 the defendant was jailed for 32 months again for being concerned in the supply of heroin and was on licence when he committed the new offences in Rhyl in May.
“You sadly fell back to your old ways,” the judge told him.
He had now admitted possessing heroin with intent to supply and possessing the cash as criminal property.
The heroin had an estimated street value of £1,200.
“You of all people knew full well what would happen if you were caught again dealing in heroin but it was a risk you were prepared to take,” he said.
Judge Rowlands said that it was a serious case.
“Heroin destroys people’s lives,” he said, and the defendant as exacerbating the problem in Rhyl.
The six year sentence should act as a warning to others.
The money seized was forfeited and handed over to the North Wales Police in the fight against drugs.
Prosecutor David Maidstone told on May 16 police were called to a report of a domestic incident in the car park of the Aldi store in Wellington Road, Rhyl.
The defendant was stopped and searched, a woman ran off when the defendant told her “you know what to do” and £3,910 was found on him, together with 80 wraps of heroin valued at £1,280.
He made no comment in interview but then a small number of text messages indicative of drug dealing were found on his mobile phone.
Defending barrister John Hedgecoe said that it was a seven year minimum case but his client should be given credit for his early guilty pleas.
A significant amount of drugs had been seized but he was still only 24 and had indicated his guilty pleas at the magistrates’ court.
see-http://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/163902/heroin-dealer-jailed-for-six-years-for-dealing-on-the-streets-of-rhyl.aspx
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