A young Londoner was caught in a Swansea drugs den just days after being arrested and released under investigation.
Jayden Glean was working for a criminal gang known to police as the 'Max Line' when he was found at two houses in different parts of city being operated by the dealers.
Swansea Crown Court the defendant was doing media studies at a college in London when he got into financial difficulties and then became involved with the gang.
Ian Ibrahim, prosecuting, said Glean first came to the attention of police when officers went to a house in the Sandfields area of Swansea in relation to a missing persons investigation.
The court heard the front door of the Rodney Street house was open and officers could hear voices coming from within along with a smell of cannabis.
The police went into the property and found two men, one of whom was Glean, sitting on a sofa surrounded by drugs paraphernalia.
When Glean was searched he was found to have 21 wraps of crack cocaine and two of heroin in his pants and an examination of his phone showed he had been in contact with a number linked to a London-based county lines drug dealing operation known to detectives in Swansea as the Max Line. One of the texts from the Max number to the defendant had contained the address of the property where Glean had been found.
The court heard police would later uncover CCTV footage which showed Glean buying a £10 mobile phone top-up at the CK's shop near Swansea High Street station in March this year, a credit which went on the Max Line phone.
Following the defendant's arrest in Sandfields he was released pending further investigation and just 10 days later was found in a flat in Eaton House, Eaton Crescent, in the Uplands area of the city when police raided the property following intelligence that it was being used for drug dealing.
Mr Ibrahim said four men, including Glean, were found in the property, and a search of the defendant found he had 14 wraps of crack and heroin in the waistband of his trousers, along with £112 in cash, and a screwdriver hidden in the sleeve of his jacket. The court heard he told officers he had only gone to the flat to "score" some drugs.
Glean, 21, of Jones Terrace, Mount Pleasant, Swansea admitted two counts of possession of crack with intent to supply and two counts of possession of heroin with intent to supply. The court heard he has previous convictions for possession of cannabis and possession of a bladed article.
Tom Scapens, for Glean, said the defendant had gained an extended diploma in media studies from Lambeth College in London despite financial difficulties and he said he had a supportive family.
The barrister said his client had played a "small role" at the bottom of the supply chain, characterising the period of offending as "a month of mayhem, frankly, for the defendant".
Judge Christopher Vosper QC sentenced Glean to three years behind bars.
