A drug seller has been put behind bars after heroin fell out of his trouser leg throughout a police search.
Andrew Sheilds, 30, was stopped on a discipline by police on April 24, 2021.
A power spokeswoman mentioned that Sheilds, from Runcorn, had been seen approaching two males, Cheshire Stay reviews.
Three wraps of brown powder fell out of his trouser leg in the course of the search, and he was quickly arrested and brought into custody.
He pleaded responsible at North Cheshire Magistrates' Court docket to 2 counts of caring within the provide of Class A medication, particularly heroin and cocaine, and one among possession with intent to provide heroin.
Sheilds, beforehand of Camelot Means, Castlefields, Runcorn, was jailed for 12 months at Chester Crown Court docket on Friday, June 10.
Court docket papers mentioned the offences associated to a time period from March 1 till his arrest.
The issues passed off earlier than Sheilds was arrested, charged, pleaded responsible to, and jailed for possession with intent to provide the Class A drug crack cocaine throughout October and November final yr, after he was discovered travelling as a passenger with 148 wraps of the drug in a Kia Sportage linked by “intelligence” to suspected drug provide.
Jeremy Rawson, representing Sheilds at sentencing in November 2021, mentioned his consumer was a drug person whose consumption of medication had intensified following the dying of his child two years prior, which made him "depressed" and was a “traumatic supply of stress”.
He mentioned this in flip led to Sheilds falling into drug debt.
Sheilds was jailed in November for 2 years and 4 months. His newest sentence will probably be served consecutively to the one for which he is already in jail.
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