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Joseph Locker

Man found with 200 bags of heroin and cocaine in pants after drug deal in Mansfield skate park

A man who described himself as a "one man drug dealer" was found with up to 200 bags of heroin and cocaine after an alleged deal at a skate park in Mansfield.

Tyrell Campbell, from Manchester, was tailed by police and found with the drugs during an incident last year.

On 18 February the 25-year-old was seen exchanging an unknown item with another person at a skate park in Ravensdale, Mansfield.

It had been reported a suspected drug deal had been taking place in the area.

Officers followed Campbell and he was stopped while in a taxi in Barringer Road, Mansfield.

Here he was arrested on suspicion of supplying class B drugs after he was found with a bag of cannabis in his possession.

Between 150 to 200 individually wrapped packages filled with crack cocaine and heroin were then found hidden in his pants as officers searched him at Mansfield Police Station.

Two large lunchboxes and a container filled with a mix of crack cocaine and heroin, as well as a machete and several other bladed weapons, were seized at a property linked to Campbell.

More class A drugs, as well as weapons, cash, weighing scales and mobile phones, were then seized by officers from a property in Almond Rise, Forest Town.

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Campbell admitted that all the items recovered were his he described himself as a "one man drug dealer".

Appearing at Nottingham Crown Court on January 28 Campbell was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.

Detective Sergeant David Prest, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “I hope this case will send out a strong message to others that this type of behaviour will be punished.

“Drugs cause irreparable damage to everyone they touch and can ruin lives, which is why our officers continue to work so tirelessly to intercept these dangerous substances before they can reach their targets and cause harm.

“We will never tolerate those who make their living from selling drugs and will continue with our efforts to make their lives as difficult as possible by taking them off our streets and putting offenders behind bars.”

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