DRUGS IN CABS
KILO OF HEROIN FOUND IN TAXI FOOTWELL DURING STOP CHECK BY SEFTON POLICE
A kilo of suspected heroin has been found in the footwell of a taxi. The Liverpool Echo reports that officers spotted a taxi in “suspicious circum- stances” in Bootle before carrying out a stop check in Netherton. When the car was searched a kilogram of suspected heroin was recovered. Two people in the car were taken into custody. Sefton Police Facebook page posted the news. The post said: “Operation Pelican has this evening arrested a 20-year-old male and a 41-year-old male, both from Southport, for drug supply offences. “During a search of the vehicle and the
occupants, a kilo of suspected heroin was recovered. Both occupants were arrested and taken into police custody. Searches of addresses then took place where police recovered cannabis and a
large quantity of cash thought to be from the proceeds of crime.”
EXPLOITED TEENAGER CAUGHT WITH WEAPONS AND DRUGS TRYING TO GET IN BLACKPOOL CAB
A teenager was caught with a machete, a meat cleaver, two knives and more than £3,000 of class A drugs, as he tried to get into a taxi in Blackpool. According to LancsLive, Kyle Butler, now 20, also had a stab vest in a JD Sports holdall and seemed nervous when stopped by police on May 16 2020. David Clarke, prosecuting, told Preston Crown Court officers were called to a disturbance in Livingston Road, Black- pool, in the late afternoon, after residents reported seeing a group of people ‘fighting with weapons’. Butler was seen leaving a house and heading towards a waiting cab, but was intercepted by police. He did not want to give his surname or date of birth and seemed nervous, Mr Clarke said. Officers searched his bag and found the weapons, and around 38g of heroin and crack, wrapped in cellophane inside Kinder eggs. Butler, then 18, told officers he was vul- nerable and had been driven to
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Blackpool from Manchester to sell drugs as he was trying to raise funds to get to Egypt to see his mum. The taxi driver, who saw Butler being searched said: “It is quite worrying that this person was about to get in my taxi with these weapons on him.” Butler was arrested and taken to Black- pool police station where he admitted getting involved in drug dealing after being abandoned in the UK by his family. A referral was made to the National Referral Mechanism - a framework for identifying victims of modern slavery - and he was found to have been exploited and coerced into selling drugs. He pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply class A drugs and possession of offensive weapons in a public place. Brian Williams, defending, told the court Butler’s personal history was “shocking and almost Dickensian.” The teenager had no previous convictions but was left in the care system after his
family moved to Egypt when he was 15. He witnessed domestic abuse as a young child and his stepfather, who he saw as a father figure, later died. “He was vulnerable, immature, and ready for the taking by those people who look for such people in order to do the jobs they don’t want to do - which is taking the risk of having drugs in the street.” Recorder Daniel Prowse, sentencing, said there was nothing to suggest Butler was involved in the original alter- cation which brought the police to Livingston Road. He had simply been stopped as part of the enquiries, he said.
He handed Butler a two-year prison sentence but said he could suspend it for 20 months. He ordered the defendant, who spent four months in custody prior to the court hearing, to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work, 35 days rehabilitation activities and a ‘Thinking Skills’ programme.
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