Leeds drug dealer caught with crack cocaine worth £500 and nearly £3,000 in cash when police stopped him for driving while using a mobile phone

A drug dealer was caught with crack cocaine worth £500 and almost £3,000 in cash when he was stopped by police for using his mobile phone while driving.
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Miles Maloney was stopped by officers in Leeds when he was spotted using the device at the wheel of his car on October 5 this year.

Leeds Crown Court heard the officers decided to carry out a search when they saw drug paraphernalia inside the vehicle.

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Katy Rafter, prosecuting, said Maloney told the officers that he "had a bit of heroin" but that it was for personal use.

Drug dealer Miles Maloney was jailed for 35 months at Leeds Crown Court.Drug dealer Miles Maloney was jailed for 35 months at Leeds Crown Court.
Drug dealer Miles Maloney was jailed for 35 months at Leeds Crown Court.

The officers then found 50 individual crack cocaine deals in the car, worth £500.

Cash totalling £2,995 was recovered from his jacket and from a B&M bag inside the door pocket.

Maloney, 39, was interviewed and insisted the drugs were for personal use.

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He claimed the cash was from the sale of a car.

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Maloney, of Main Street, Allerton Bywater, later pleaded guilty to possession of crack cocaine with intent to supply and possession of criminal property.

The court heard he has 11 previous convictions for 30 offences.

He has served a three-year prison sentence in the past for supplying heroin.

Maloney's last conviction was in 2011 for possession of cannabis.

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