Jailed: 'Unsophisticated' high-vis wearing drug dealer caught selling cocaine and heroin in park
A Class-A drug dealer caught while wearing a high-vis vest with his passport on him, was "not a sophisticated criminal", according to his solicitor.
The comments were made as two men, who were delivering crack-cocaine and heroin to order at one of the county's most popular recreation spots, were jailed at Shrewsbury Crown Court.
Judge Peter Barrie was told details of the operation as Nathaniel Gardener and Oscar Brown, both admitted to taking drugs from the West Midlands to Shrewsbury's Quarry for sale.
Both men, from Willenhall in the West Midlands, had pleaded guilty to charges of possession with intent to supply heroin and crack cocaine, on March 3 this year.
Gardener, 23, from Noose Lane, and Brown, 20, of Cross Street, were both locked up by Judge Barrie, who spoke of the 'pernicious' effect of County Lines dealing.
Tariq Shakoor, prosecuting, said: "The two defendants from the Willenhall area of the West Midlands were arrested on March 3 this year having been involved in the use of what is now known as the 'TJ County Drugs Line', which was operating from the West Midlands, but in Shrewsbury, since about December 9, 2022."
Mr Shakoor said that the line, which would provide prospective customers with the ability to buy drugs, or for dealers to send mass messages to a number of recipients advertising drugs, worked on a specific number that "ended in 6363."
