A drug dealer who took selfies as he posed with his home-grown cannabis has been jailed for more than three years.
Police first stopped Derek Waters in London Road, St Ives, after he flagged up as driving without a licence on September 8, 2020.
He was searched and officers seized £980 in cash, a mobile phone and cannabis. A further search of his home in Ramsey Road, St Ives, uncovered cannabis cultivation equipment along with signs there had previously been a cannabis farm in the loft.
Officers seized his phone which contained 317 photos under the album ‘grow’ including selfies of himself with the cannabis.
Police searched his home again on November 28 and seized a further £855 in cash as well as more than £3,000 of cocaine and cannabis. Further mobile phones found in the property also linked him to drug dealing.
Waters, 36, appeared at Cambride Crown Court on September 21 and was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. He had previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply class A drugs, two counts of possession with intent to supply class B drugs, concerned in the supply of class B and C drugs and possession of Class B and C drugs.
PC Katie Glass, who investigated, said: “The evidence from Waters' mobile phones and his home were overwhelming and confirmed his involvement in dealing class A and B drugs across St Ives and Huntingdonshire."
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