A drug dealer unknowingly told a police officer to ‘hide whatever you’s got in your pants’ when he was caught in the act.
Corey Evans, of Gilfach Road, Tonyrefail , believed he was tipping off a man who he and accomplice, Jesse Bailey, had just sold cocaine to.
Little did he know it was a police officer who answered his customer’s phone which rang as his vehicle was being searched.
Evans and Bailey, of Heol Waun, Tonyrefail, had just sped off in Evans’ black Audi when they saw an unmarked police vehicle pull up behind them just as they were completing a drug deal in the early hours of Sunday, October 7 2018.
Patrolling PCs Davies and Wilson had become suspicious of their Audi A1 and a Ford Fusion, after they were parked side by side at a bus stop on the A4093, just outside Tonyrefail.
The car was then searched by officers and three deal bags of cocaine were found but as they were searching the car, the driver’s phone rang and it was Evans.
“Hide whatever you have in your pants,” Evans said, not realising it was an officer who picked up and answered the phone.
PC Davies called the number back and suggested Evans returned to the scene.
Evans, accompanied by Bailey, drove back within minutes and both were arrested.
Bailey was later searched in police custody where officers uncovered cocaine which was concealed in his pants.
Later that day officers executed a search warrant at a Tonyrefail address linked to them - where they found cocaine worth nearly £2,000 and drugs paraphernalia including digital scales.
Evans, 21, was jailed for three years and nine months at Merthyr Crown Court on June 18.
His accomplice, Bailey, 19, was also sentenced to four years and one month in prison.
Discussing the case, PC Stephen Wooley, from South Wales Police’s Priority Policing Team, said: “These two individuals have both received lengthy sentences for the part they played in the supply of class A drugs to people in the area.
“There was an air of complacency with them both and they appeared to think they were above the law, but their drug dealing has now caught up with them and they will face a considerable time in prison.”
The driver of the Ford car where police found three street deal bags of cocaine received a caution.
Anybody who suspects drug dealing should contact South Wales Police via 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
