Police found heroin and over £20k in cash in raids on homes

Police recovered a haul of heroin and wads of cash during raids on two houses in South Tyneside.

- by Karon Kelly

Officers searched the homes of Mark Potts and Pamela Smith in Jarrow in November 2020, and seized 19 wraps of heroin, more than £20,000 in cash, as well as diazepam tablets.

At Newcastle Crown Court Potts was put behind bars for four years and Smith was given an "opportunity" with a suspended sentence.

Prosecutor Mairi Clancy told the court at Potts' home in Pickering Court, officers found £15,000 cash and 55 diazepam tablets.

At Smith's home in Primrose Terrace in the town they found Potts asleep in an upstairs bedroom while she was in a utility room.