A Merseyside drug dealer sold around £11,000 worth of heroin and crack cocaine from a caravan in Wales.
Liam Mousdell, from Prescot, was caught when police followed a drug user into a caravan park in Rhyl where the drug dealer was staying. Officers approached the driver of the car after it came to a stop, on Gwynfryn Avenue on June 7, reports WalesOnline.
Police found the woman's phone was constantly ringing and they took the phone from her. A sentencing hearing at Caernarfon Crown Court on Monday, heard an officer answered the phone and Mousdell, 24, asked "Where are you?".
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The officer told him he was on the road and the defendant replied "Give me five minutes". When Mousdell arrived, he knocked on the car window but when the police approached him he tried to run away before he was detained.
The defendant was found in possession of a rock of crack cocaine and another phone which was ringing. He tried to reset the phone to a factory setting but was stopped so no data was lost.
He was linked to both of the phones having used them to call his mum and there was cell site analysis linking him to the caravan park. Both of the numbers were linked to conversations with drug users.
A search of the Mousdell's caravan where his passport and documentation was found, as well as cannabis, scales and cutting agents. Laura Knightly, prosecuting, said the messages revealed Mousdell had sold in the region of £11,000 of heroin and crack cocaine within a month.
The defendant, of Beaconsfield, Prescot, later pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and possession of class B drugs.
In mitigation, Simon Killeen said his client was realistic he would be receiving an immediate custodial sentence, but he was remorseful for his offending.
Sentencing, Judge Niclas Parry said: "This is another case of people from the north west of England blazing into north Wales, targeting deprived areas, areas affected badly by drug illness and criminality and then leave, taking cash and leaving behind local people suffering the consequences. It was lucrative enough for you to afford a caravan situated in north Wales as a base where the drugs could be sold."
Mousdell was sentenced to a total of 27 months imprisonment. He will serve half the sentence in custody before he is released to serve the remainder on licence.
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