A drug dealer has been sent down again after heroin fell out of his trouser leg during a police search.
Cheshire Constabulary said Andrew Sheilds, 30, of HMP Hindley, was stopped by officers on a field at the end of Lapwing Grove in Palacefields, Runcorn, on April 24 last year. A force spokeswoman said Sheilds had been seen approaching two men.
During the search, three wraps of brown powder fell out of his trouser leg. Shields was arrested and taken into custody.
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He pleaded guilty at North Cheshire Magistrates’ Court in Warrington to two counts of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, namely heroin and cocaine, and one of possession with intent to supply heroin. Sheilds, previously of Camelot Way, Castlefields, Runcorn, was jailed for 12 months at Chester Crown Court on Friday, June 10.
Court papers said the offences related to a period of time from March 1 until his arrest.
The matters took place before Sheilds was arrested, charged, pleaded guilty to, and jailed for possession with intent to supply the Class A drug crack cocaine during October and November last year, after he was found travelling as a passenger with 148 wraps of the drug in a Kia Sportage linked by “intelligence” to suspected drug supply.
Jeremy Rawson, representing Sheilds at sentencing in November, said his client was a drug user whose consumption of drugs had intensified following the death of his baby two years prior, which made him "depressed" and was a “traumatic source of stress”.
He said this in turn led to Sheilds falling into drug debt. Sheilds was jailed in November for two years and four months. His latest sentence will be served consecutively to the one for which he's already in prison.
