A drug dealing gran caught by police with dozens of wraps of monkey dust was found to have drugs stashed away in her underwear. Stacie Sullivan, 44, was caught with heroin and monkey dust twice within a month.
The defendant was arrested for possession of class A and class B drugs with intent to supply after police stopped a Seat Leon in October. When she was searched again at the police station, more drugs were found stashed in her underwear. Sullivan was bailed, but within a month she was found inside a drug den and in possession of deals of heroin and monkey dust, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.
Prosecutor Antony Longworth told Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court that police saw the defendant, who was known by the name of Kirk, going to an address in the city at 1.15pm on October 13. She left in a black Seat Leon and the car was stopped nearby.
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Mr Longworth said: "She was the rear seat passenger. A small amount of drugs were found on the front seat. A quantity of class A and class B drugs were seized from the defendant. She was arrested. She was searched further and further amounts of drugs were seized from her underwear."
Police seized £285 cash, one container with 1.4 grams of monkey dust and a contact lens container which contained wraps of monkey dust and heroin. Mr Longworth said: "There were about a dozen packages of drugs packaged for sale."
The defendant was arrested again on November 10 after police found her at an address in a block of flats where they suspected a drug den was operating, Mr Longworth said. She was found to have a kinder egg containing 27 wraps of monkey dust and 18 deals of heroin with a value of £700. Another kinder egg contained 46 wraps of monkey dust and 10 heroin deals with an estimated deal of £1,000, he told the court.
Sullivan, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing a class A drug with intent to supply and two charges of possessing a class B drug with intent to supply. Her pleas were on a basis she was selling drugs to people already on drugs to fund her habit.
Barry White, mitigating, said the defendant has been on remand since November. He said: "She said her actions were stupid. For a long time she was living a chaotic lifestyle." He said Sullivan has no previous convictions for possession or dealing drugs.
Mr White added: "She no longer has the care of her children due to her lifestyle. She regrets that. She recently became a grandmother. She wants to be there for her grandchild more than she was for her own children."
Judge Graeme Smith said: "Both sets of offences relate to the supply of the same drugs, heroin and monkey dust. By your basis of plea it is accepted they were being supplied to a limited number of people you were friendly with. Drugs damage lives, you know that because they have damaged your own life. That led to a cycle of you yourself supplying others. It is aggravated because you had already been arrested and were on bail when you supplied the second set of drugs."
The judge ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs and Sullivan was jailed for 30 months.
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