Police who pulled over a driver for not wearing a seat belt ended up catching a drug dealer with £1,000 worth of drugs.

On March 8, 2022, in Wisbech, Jordan Sharpin, 23, of Small Lode, Upwell, Norfolk, was a passenger in a black Vauxhall Astra which officers stopped after noticing the driver wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

While speaking to the driver officers smelt cannabis and carried out searches that uncovered a cannabis grinder, scales, silver foil, two bags of cannabis and a small tub of cocaine.  

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Around £290 in cash and a mobile phone with messages from Sharpin relating to drug dealing were also seized.

Sharpin admitted the drugs were his, including cocaine thought to be worth between £450 and £750 and cannabis worth about £540.

On Tuesday (February 20), Sharpin appeared at Cambridge Crown Court and was jailed for two years and four months having pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply both cocaine and cannabis.   

DC Lee Lombardo of Cambridgeshire Police said: “One thing led to another in this case, with a simple seatbelt offence uncovering a large stash of class A and B drugs.

“Drugs blight lives and communities so I am delighted we have taken another drug dealer off the streets of Cambridgeshire and helped to put him behind bars.”