Drug dealer threw heroin out of window in raid - but drugs landed at officer's feet
A drug dealer threw a heroin wrap from an eighth-floor window in a bid to foil police as they stormed a Wolverhampton flat ? only to drop the drugs at the feet of a police officer.
The heroin bundle was thrown from a window at Heath Town's Hampton View flats.
Police had executed a warrant at the property last June after residents had raised concerns it was being used as a drugs den.
Having forced open the front door officers saw Kieron Brown ? known locally as 'Yankee' ? dash into a bedroom.
It was from here that Brown tried his audacious attempt to discard of a heroin wrap through an open window.
However, Brown hadn't banked on police surrounding the tower block on the ground.
The cling-film parcel that he dropped - which carried a street value of almost £300 - landed next to a grateful officer.
Brown, aged 25 and from Audlem Walk in Park Village, initially refused to answer any questions about the drugs or why a broken mirror was lying on a dining table alongside a set of digital scales.
But he was charged with drugs possession with intent to supply and after admitting the offence in Wolverhampton Crown Court last Thursday was jailed for 23 months.
Officers also found drug paraphernalia and £600 in cash during a search of the flag.
Police said the flat itself had been specifically set up to weigh drugs and supply drugs from.
Pc James Lawless from Wolverhampton Police's offender management team, said: "Brown was hoping to distance himself from the drugs but he came close to throwing the heroin wrap right into the hands of a waiting officer.
"Whenever we carry out warrants like this the target property is assessed and locked down to prevent suspects trying to get rid of evidence ? as Brown found to his cost.
"The flat was set up for weighing and supplying drugs: there was almost £600 in cash found in the flat that's believed to have been drug profits and, ironically, a plastic Health Lottery card was being used to cut the drugs on the mirror."
Forensic tests on the recovered digital scales showed traces of cocaine whilst a bag of herbal cannabis was also found in the flat.
Brown suggested he was minding the flat for an unnamed person when police raided it on June 7 but the judge rejected the claim.
