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Drug dealer jailed for selling heroin and crack from taxi cabs


A DRUG dealer who peddled heroin and crack from taxi cabs has been jailed for two years and eight months.

Victor Adetoyi had more than £1,000 worth of the substances as well as £1,680 in cash when police arrested him as he went to make a deal in the city centre.

Before officers got their hands on him the 22-year-old managed to store the 84 wraps of drugs up his backside, where he tried to keep them.

But despite refusing to allow an X-ray to take place and declining food and drink he gave in and produced the drugs.

Colin Meeke, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court how police launched an operation to catch the dealer earlier this year.

"They had become aware of his activities selling drugs in Salisbury, in particular his use of a taxi firm based in Salisbury," he said.

"Intelligence showed he was on the ground late in the evening of March 30 this year.

"Police in the area of Osborne House saw a car from the relevant taxi firm arrive at the location.

"It left there, went towards the city centre coming to a stop in Fisherton Street where police stepped in an arrested him."

He said that as well as the cash and a mobile phone containing two sim cards he also had a tub of Vaseline, which gave the police a clue as to where the drugs may be.

After refusing an X-ray at the Royal United Hospital in Bath he was returned to the cells at Melksham police station where he refused food and drink or to use the toilet.

"It didn't take very long: he said he had secreted the drugs in the rectum. He was provided with a plastic bag and he produced the drugs."

Mr Meeke said he had 30 deals of crack and 54 of heroin which would have been worth in the region of £1,140 on the street.

Adetoyi, of Farnham, Surrey, pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing drugs with intent to supply and one of having criminal property.

The court heard that in a long history of crime he was put on a suspended sentence in June last year for burglary.

source: http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/ ... taxi_cabs/

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Before officers got their hands on him the 22-year-old managed to store the 84 wraps of drugs up his backside, where he tried to keep them.


Another right pain in the backside behind bars where he belongs

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Are cab drivers getting younger?

Or is it just younger crooks are becoming cab drivers?

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IDFIMH

My reading of the (badly written and ambiguous to be sure) article would lead me to surmise he was a Taxi (and possibly PH) passenger, not a driver.

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

mine too

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

They think Taxis are a safe mode to deal in and transport drugs. How wrong could they be?