DRUG DEALER JAILED

A man has been jailed after officers found cocaine hidden in a car in Tamworth.

Ergys Mici, 23, from Coventry, was sentenced to one-year-and-ten-months in jail at Stafford Crown Court on Wednesday (26 August) after he admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine, acquiring / using / possessing criminal property, driving a motor vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a licence and driving a using a motor vehicle on a road / public place without third party insurance.

He was also disqualified from driving for one-year-and-eleven-months.

On 7 April this year, Mici was driving a black Audi A4 on Claremont Road in Tamworth when he was stopped by officers from our major and organised crime proactive team.

Several minutes earlier, they had seen him stopping on Masefield Drive where a suspected drug deal took place.

When officers searched Mici, they found £40 in the pocket of his hooded top.

An iPhone and £275 in cash were found inside the car, along with a sandwich bag containing four snap bags of cocaine concealed within the interior lighting electrics box.

As part of Operation Target, officers continue to work proactively and relentlessly to crack down on groups and individuals responsible for high-harm crimes, including county lines drug distribution, illegal firearms activity, modern slavery, and cyber-crime in our county.

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