A 'BRAZEN' drug dealer's fledgling career was cut short when police stopped him at the very start of his offending, detectives have revealed.

Andrew Poulton-Smith was jailed for three years and two months at Worcester Crown Court, as previously reported.

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The 22-year-old was initially arrested and charged after police discovered a large quantity of suspected class A drugs, worth thousands of pounds, in a white Audi A5 in a car park off Tybridge Street.

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Now, senior detectives have given their reaction to the sentence and say they will continue to stop out-of-town County Lines dealers and homegrown dealers in their tracks, warning them they too face long jail sentences.

Last week we reported how another drug dealer was bitten by a police dog (PD Alvin) after he ran across six live lanes of the M5 near Worcester. 

Bledar Thomaj was jailed for 12 months after he was found with 10kg of cannabis in his boot. He risked his life running across a motorway only to suffer stitches after being bitten by the dog.

He was pulled over in his black Audi A6 on the M5 near junction 7 (Worcester South) on Tuesday, November 22.

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Poulton-Smith of Woden Road East, Wednesbury, was jailed on November 29 for possession with intent to supply and breach of a suspended sentence order following decisive action by West Mercia Police on September 14.

Judge Martin Jackson gave Poulton-Smith three years in jail for the drug offences and activated the suspending sentence, with a total sentence handed to him of three years and two months.   

A spokesman for the force said: "Proactive CID officers identify a vehicle linked to drug supply in Worcester. The vehicle is sighted and its occupants located in McDonalds on Tybridge Street.

"After a short foot chase all are detained and arrested. Smith is found in possession of three golf ball-sized packages of Class A drugs, the drug dealing phone and cash

"He pleaded guilty to drug supply at an earlier hearing."

DI Dave Knight of South Worcestershire Priority CID said: "This was a decent prison sentence for a County Line Drug dealer who was disrupted by South Worcestershire Proactive CID very early into his chosen career in peddling Class A Drugs.

"Poulton-Smith was particularly brazen with his dealing using a bum bag to carry his kinder egg filled with drugs. I hope the length of sentence sends a message to others intent on dealing drugs within South Worcestershire that its really not worth it."