Pair caught on CCTV selling cocaine in club

COCAINE dealers targeted a busy night-club on New Year's Eve, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS

Joshua Jenkins and Alex John were caught after CCTV operators became suspicious of their activities and alerted the police.

Swansea Crown Court heard that while being investigated for dealing, both defendants went on to commit further offences.

Sending the defendants down the judge told them they would have known that a prison sentence awaited them if caught but had involved themselves in dealing Class A drugs regardless - and without having any regard to the impact being locked up would have on their families and those around them.

Alycia Carpanini, prosecuting, told the court that just after midnight on January 1, 2023, police were called to a club in Queen Street in Carmarthen town centre after reports from CCTV operators of two males seen apparently exchanging packages and cash.

She said Jenkins and John were located, detained, and searched, and were found to be carrying four and six cocaine deals respectively, along with a total of £400 in cash. John was also found with two bags of cannabis.

The court heard that the arrests then led to searches of the defendants' homes.

At Jenkins' house officers found three phones, weighing scales, a quantity of cannabis and cocaine, and a box containing bicarbonate of soda, a common “cutting agent” used in preparing deals.

At John's address officers found three sets of weighing scales, five phones, and empty snap-bags.