Phone revealed extent of pair's drug operation

A COUPLE were found to be cocaine dealers with messages on their phone revealing they were directing drug runners to supply customers.

- PHILIP DEWEY

A search of a property resulted in the discovery of 118g of cocaine as well as tick lists which revealed the amount of money owed to them.

Tony Mann, 28, and Roxanne Gilder, 33, were arrested on August 23 by officers from South Wales Police's organised crime unit in Tylorstown, Rhondda. Mann was searched and found in possession of £205 in cash and a phone which was seized.

A sentencing hearing at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard a warrant was carried out at the home of Gilder in Penrhys Road, where drug paraphernalia was found along with a tick list, a knuckleduster, an amount of uncounted cash in a bottle and another phone.