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UK: Tottenham drug dealer sent to prison for 5kg cannabis haul

By David Hardiman

Haringey Independent

Saturday 03 Dec 2011

A DRUG dealer who was caught with 5kg of cannabis in Tottenham by police carrying out a stop-and-search has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

David Byrne, 44, of Trulock Road was stopped at around 10pm on October 12 in Northumberland Park by Haringey Police officers on high alert after a stabbing the day before.

They found that Byrne was carrying 20 bars of cannabis with a black market value of £75,000 in two holdalls he carrying over his shoulder, and arrested him.

Wood Green Crown Court heard yesterday how the unemployed Byrne, who pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply the drug, was on licence for previous drugs offences and had only been released from prison in May.

Sentencing him to 30 months in prison, Recorder Weitzman accepted that Byrne played a "subsidiary role in relation to what was a substantial supply" and was acting as a courier, but added that his role in assisting in that supply was "a serious matter".

Superintendent Chris Barclay of Haringey Police said that the conviction showed that stop-and-search was a useful tool for officers in preventing and detecting the drug crime which plagues the area.

http://www.haringeyindependent.co.uk/news/9399849.Tottenham_drug_dealer_sent_to_prison_for_5kg_cannabis_haul/

 

 

 

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