A PORT Talbot man who drank 15 pints of beer and took cocaine ended up naked in Swansea's Castle Square shouting and swearing at police, a court has heard.
Police arrested a naked Aled Meirion James Jones in Swansea's Castle Square
Money from to buy alcohol and drugs, unemployed Aled Meiron James Jones replied that he borrows it.
Swansea Magistrates Court heard that police were called to Castle Square in the city centre on the night of July 23 to reports of a naked man — when they got to the scene they found a member of the public trying to "restrain" 22-year-old Jones.
Lisa Jones, prosecuting, said the officers recognised the naked man as the same person they had spoken to some 30 minutes earlier when they had told him to go home because of his drunken state.
When the officers approached the defendant he began shouting and swearing at them, and he was arrested.
A subsequent search found he had a 0.5 grams of cocaine on him.
Jones, of Melyn Street, Glyncorrwg, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in a public place, and to possessing the Class A drug when he appeared before district judge Stephen Harmes sitting at the magistrates court.
The court heard that in his police interview, Jones told officers he had drunk 15 pints of lager on the night in question, and had bought a gram of cocaine for £40 in Swansea, half of which he had taken before taking his clothes off. The defendant told them he usually spent around £50 a week on illegal drugs.
Steve Harrett, for Jones, said the defendant had told him that the naked-in-Castle-Square incident was only the second time he had tried cocaine.
When asked by the district judge where he got his money from — and where he would get the money from to pay any fine he might be given — the defendant simply replied, "I borrow it".
For the drug possession charge Jones was given a six month community order and told to complete 100 hours of unpaid work; no separate penalty was imposed for the drunk and disorderly charge. Jones will also have to pay £85 costs and an £85 surcharge.
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