Two members of a drugs gang were caught red-handed surrounded by drugs, cash and a graft phone after a police raid.
Lee Small, 26, and Wayne Webb, 36, were found surrounded by cocaine and heroin in a flat they had taken over to sell drugs, Plymouth Crown Court heard.
Small, who is from Liverpool, took over someone else's flat in Headland Park, Plymouth before police tracked accomplice Webb to his door in February 2021, PlymouthLive reports.
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Judge Peter Johnson said: "You were caught in the act surrounded by Class A drugs and paraphernalia such as scales, £400 in cash and a graft phone.
"There were also a large number of weapons."
A graft phone is a mobile, usually unregistered, used solely to sell drugs so that they are no personal messages to link it to the dealer.
Judge Johnson said: "It looks as if you have taken over this person's flat for the purpose of drug supply."
He told Webb: "You have a drug habit, unlike your co-accused. You allowed your phone to be used by him for drugs to be advertised and sold."
Small, of no fixed address, changed his plea on the eve of his trial to admit two counts of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply on February 10.
Small was jailed for three years and nine months and Webb for 19 months.
Webb, of Connaught Avenue, Mutley, pleaded guilty to one count of being concerned in the supply of a Class A drug.
Hollie Gilbery, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said plain clothes officers looking for drug dealers tracked Webb from his home to the flat in Headland Park in Greenbank.
She added that they stopped the suspect and found he was carrying wraps of heroin and a phone showing messages indicating the supply of drugs.
Miss Gilbery said he also had keys to the flat in Headland Park where police found Small sat on the sofa surrounded by heroin and cocaine.
The barrister said that officers returned to Webb's flat and found more drugs.
She said that in total, police seized 0.57 grams of crack cocaine and 27 grams of heroin.
The court heard that both men had a long list of previous convictions for serious offences.
Tom Faulkner, for Small, said his client accepted he was going to prison and did not want to give a "sob story".
But he added that the prisoner had been injured by a burst hot water pipe in his cell.
Mr Faulkner added that the defendant did not accept that graft phone was his.
Ali Rafati, for Webb, said that he had already spent seven months in custody and was now clean of drugs.
He added that upon his release he would work with counsellors to stay away from heroin.
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