Drug dealer jailed after one in 1,000,000 mistake

A cause trader was caught aft helium typed successful 1 incorrect fig and sent a substance advertizing ace cocaine to a constabulary officer.

Phillip Paul, 25, sent the bulk connection to a radical of his customers but typed successful 1 incorrect digit.

The incorrect telephone fig alternatively belonged to a constabulary officer, whoreported the substance to the Proactive Investigation Team astatine Surrey Police.

Detectives were already alert of a drugs enactment successful Surrey backmost successful March but acknowledgment to the ‘one successful a million’ mistake officers were capable to place Paul arsenic the ‘line holder’.

He was arrested extracurricular his location and officers recovered £337 successful cash, a wrapper of ace cocaine, 3 wraps of heroin and a container containing 2 grams of cannabis.

A fig of messages from users requesting to bargain drugs were besides recovered connected Paul’s phone.

Paul, of Lewisham, southbound eastbound London pleaded blameworthy to being acrophobic successful the proviso of ace cocaine, being acrophobic successful the proviso of heroin and possession of cannabis.

He was sentenced astatine Chichester Crown Court successful West Sussex connected November 14 to 3 years imprisonment.

Investigating officer, Police Constable Joseph Brown, of Surrey Police, said: ‘Drug dealing tin person a hugely disruptive effect connected the section assemblage and dealers marque their ill-gotten wealth disconnected the misery of others.

‘If you travel into Surrey to woody drugs, we volition prosecute you and bring you to justice.’

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