A teenage heroin dealer aged just 17 did as he was told and sat under a tree in a park waiting for drug users to come up to him to buy supplies.
Carl Grant had been “dropped off” and was told to get on with selling drugs to earn some money by senior drug dealers.
However, he had now learned his lesson from the “dreadfully bad idea” and had grown up and “got the message” about steering clear of drug dealers further up the chain.
Grant, now 18, admitted possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply on September 2, 2019 in a Hull park, according to Hull Live.
Alex Menary, prosecuting, said that police spotted Grant and a man in his 40s on a grassed area of a park in Woldcarr Road, with people walking around. The officers approached Grant and he ran off but he was detained.
He was searched and police found 41 wraps of heroin, weighing 7.56g and with 54 per cent purity, and 44 wraps of crack cocaine, weighing 7.8g and with 94 per cent purity.
The heroin had a potential street value of £410 and the crack cocaine £880. There were two mobile phones. Cannabis was found on the man.
Grant was taken to the police station. “This is street dealing, significant role,” said Mr Menary.
Grant had a conviction for affray from May 2016 when he was a youth. Simon Hustler, mitigating, said that Grant was 17 at the time and his peer group in Bradford persuaded him that it would be a good idea to earn himself some money by going to Hull to deal drugs.
“He was going to be paid £100 a week but was apprehended so swiftly that he was never remunerated for the work,” said Mr Hustler. “It was a dreadfully bad idea. He had been there a week. He was put in a house. He had been dropped off in Hull.
“He was sitting under a tree dealing to those who came to him. People who wanted to purchase drugs were directed to him.”
Grant now had a “greater degree of maturity these days” and had committed no further offences. He was working and was living a law-abiding life. “He has got the message,” said Mr Hustler.
Grant, of Smith Avenue, Bradford, was given 200 hours’ unpaid work, a six-month 7pm to 5am curfew and was ordered to pay £250 costs.
The man who was caught with Grant will have his case dealt with on another occasion.
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