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The idiotic way this drug dealer tried to hide drugs from police

Postby dutchman » Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:29 pm

After pleading guilty to possessing the cocaine with intent to supply it, Ryan Evans was jailed for 27 months

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After drug dealer Ryan Evans was arrested he tried to get rid of a large quantity of cocaine – by crushing it onto the floor of a police van.

But when they arrived at Coventry Central police station, officers immediately noticed the white powder on the floor of the vehicle which had only just been cleaned inside.

While being clocked in to custody, Evans also dropped a bag containing more cocaine and more bags were also found in his underwear.

And at Warwick Crown Court, after pleading guilty to possessing the cocaine with intent to supply it, Evans was jailed for 27 months.

Prosecutor Simon Hunka said that on January 5 last year the police saw a Ford Cougar being driven erratically in the Tile Hill area, so stopped it.

Evans, 25, of Charminster Drive, Sytyvechale, was arrested over his driving and put into a police van to be taken to Coventry Central police station.

When they arrived and he was taken out of the caged area in the back of the van, the officers noticed the floor of the van, which had just been cleaned, was covered in white powder he had been crushing with his foot.

Evans denied any knowledge of the powder, which was swept up and found to be around £50 worth of cocaine.

He was taken to the custody suite where, as he was called forward to the desk he dropped a bag to the floor which was found to contain just over six grams of cocaine worth about £640.

And concealed in his underwear he had two further packages of the drug, worth around £1,400.

When he was questioned, Evans, who had previous conviction going back to when he was 15, said he was an addict and would buy in bulk for his own use.

He denied having any intention to supply it to others, but a phone in the car revealed messages consistent with the supply of drugs, added Mr Hunka.

Jailing Evans, Judge Anthony Potter told him: “The supply of cocaine is rife in Coventry and causes untold misery to families like yours and to other families.

“If you had been at this court last week, you would have seen the resident judge sentence a young man who killed his friend by stabbing him following a cocaine-fuelled binge.

“It is impossible to overstate the pernicious effect of that particular class A drug, and it depends on people like you, who may yourself be users, supplying others.

“You had a not insignificant amount of cocaine on your person. You sought to dispose of it, but even on a conservative estimate, you had £1,900 worth, which is an enormous amount.”

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