Jailed: Drug dealing Wolverhampton waiter gets four years
A waiter found dealing drugs in the street was starting a four-year jail sentence today.
Officers given a description of the suspect in a tip off spotted 26-year-old Philip McCurdy in the street in Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton, at around 1pm.
A search revealed he was carrying 55 wraps of heroin and 16 of cocaine with a combined street value of £710, disclosed Mr Howard Searle, prosecuting.
Officers then combed his home in Crosby Close, Whitmore Reans, where a further 15 wraps of crack worth £150 were discovered together with the paraphernalia of drug dealing – scales, a mobile phone with incriminating messages and enough of the mixing agents used to cut raw heroin and cocaine to produce a further £27,000 worth of street sales.
Mr Paul Hiatt, defending, said McCurdy had been given the drugs to sell for another person to whom he owed up to £6,000.
The defendant, who had several previous convictions for producing cannabis and possession of a bladed article, admitted having crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply on October 10.
He also had £4,382 cash but denied a prosecution claim this had come from drug dealing and the allegation was not proceeded with.
Recorder Mark Rhind said: "There is little point in me lecturing you but those who deal Class A drugs bring untold misery to many people and anybody who trades in them faces custody. You were dealing for a profit on a reasonably significant scale and were above the basic level of a street dealer with the ways and means to weigh, mix and package these drugs."
A Proceeds of Crime prosecution against McCurdy is expected to be launched in August.
