A Kirkby man who was registered unemployed and claimed disability benefits has been jailed for drug offences.
Jason Bascombe, 27, was recently jailed for supplying heroin and cocaine.
He was also handed an extra month behind bars for failing to surrender to police.
When officers eventually arrested Bascombe they found images found in his showing him posing with large bundles of cash.
Greater Manchester Police has now released information about Bascombe through GMP's Wigan West Facebook page.
GMP have revealed that on November 4, 2017 police pursued a Vauxhall Vectra after it failed to stop in the Newtown area of Wigan.
The car was chased onto the Worsley Hall estate but the drivers headed off road and lost police.
When police found the car abandoned on Plane Avenue there was a quantity of heroin and ‘crack’ cocaine as well as a drug dealing ‘graft’ phones.
Bascombe and a second man were later picked up by police nearby.
Officers suspected Bascombe had been in the car however the Kirkby man denied being a drug dealer when police interviewed him and he gave a 'no comment' response to many of the questions.
But mobile phone evidence linked Bascombe to the Vectra and the graft phone found in the car.
He later pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine.
Bascombe, of Ascot Drive in Kirkby, was sentenced to 40 months for the drug offences and an extra month for failing to surrender to custody.
The Kirkby man, who had family connections in Wigan, was registered unemployed and claimed disability benefit, police said.
He was originally due to be sentenced in September 2019 but failed to appear.
He was rearrested earlier in January and kept in custody prior to sentencing on January 31.
