Police are searching for a driver who abandoned a car down an embankment this week after leaving a property where another man was caught allegedly departing with cocaine and ice a few hours earlier.
Operation Utah detectives were patrolling on Tuesday about 2pm when they stopped a man in a white ute after leaving a Wallsend address.
They arrested the 34-year-old and a search of the vehicle allegedly uncovered 58 grams of cocaine and 20 grams of mehtylamphetamine.
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He was granted conditional bail and will face court in July.
Then, about 4.30pm, police saw a blue sedan leave the same Wallsend address - officers chased the car but lost sight of it as it approached Fletcher.
Members of the public soon flagged down police and directed them to Jarrah Close, where the car was found at the bottom of a steep embankment - but the driver had fled.
Police said officers found cash, 5.5 grams of cocaine and a large amount of suboxone strips, which are a prescription medication.
