PHOTO:16 year old swallows £2,000 worth of cocaine and heroin wraps during police raid

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According to news report by metro news , a schoolboy has been jailed for hiding more than 130 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin.

The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, swallowed the drugs to try and avoid being caught during a police raid.

He was arrested and refused to have an X-ray but after officers were given an extension to keep him in custody, so on a visit to the bathroom he passed a cling film wrap which was found to contain 73 wraps of crack cocaine and 61 wraps of heroin.

Each wrap appears was around 1cm by 0.5 cm in size but they were swallowed together in a larger bag.
The drugs had an estimated street value of up to £2,000.

The teenager pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin and possession with intent to supply cocaine at Basildon Magistrates Court and was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday.

PC Adam Blackwell, who was one of the officers carrying out the warrant as part of Operation Raptor, said that concealing drugs in that way was incredibly dangerous.

He said: ‘If we believe a person to have drugs concealed inside them and if the court agrees, they can grant us an extension, which lasts eight days at a time, allowing them to pass the drugs.

‘In this case, he passed them the next day. It is very dangerous. If the bag they were in had split, he could have died.

‘Normally people dealing drugs are not users so they are not used to drugs in their system. One wrap could have made him seriously ill, never mind 100.

‘If we have any suspicion or hint at all that someone has drugs concealed in them, we will go down this route.’

Investigating Officer Dc Mark Morgan-Jones, from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: ‘Drug dealing gangs exploit and prey on the vulnerable.

‘This boy is only 16 but is now beginning a prison sentence for serious drugs offences after being targeted by a gang to deal drugs on their behalf.

‘Drugs wreck and ruin lives and we will continue to target those who travel to Essex to deal them.’

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