BY ERIC KING
A drug dealer found in possession of £11,000 worth of heroin, crack cocaine, and cash, has been jailed for 3 years in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
37 year old Jamie Hurst, was stopped by officers who recognized his car as being involved with drug dealing, when they signaled him to stop in January, but the brave thug instead, reversed his car into the police vehicle.
Police then smashed the window of his car to force an arrest, only to later discover that he was also over the drink drive limit. His situation was made more serious by the fact he also was driving without insurance. In addition to £1,000 cash found in his possession, two large quantities of heroin were also found in the car.Further large amounts of heroine and cash were also found in house, following searches at his home by police. If that was not enough, several messages linking him to drug supply were also found on his phone, after it was seized. A total value of £11, 148 of drugs and cash was seized by police.
Many drug dealers seem to lack the smartness to hide the conspicuousness of their illegal trade. This is because the self centered life of high flying dealers keep them to busy to think. The rush to supply drugs and amass wealth often clouds their judgment in a manner that sets them up for capture and the resulting punishment. Even an average intelligent human being will ask why a drug dealer would have large amounts of heroine and cocaine in a car, when they should know they may be under surveillance. The simple answer is they are in a hurry to maximize sales as often as possible, and cover as many long distances necessary to maximize profits.
Common sense would suggest that it would be safer to carry their drugs in a parcel and use public transport to their destination. The problem with this is that they may encounter rivals or their alliances, more easily on public transport, or on the streets en route to their destination. A get away car is always essential for the active drug dealer. Trouble can happen anytime, a fellow dealer may stage a surprise robbery; and many more possibilities lurk in the unpredictable and tumultuous world of an ambitious drug dealer. However, one would expect a thinking dealer to know that having so much drugs and money in a car known to police, is most stupid. Hurst may have been unaware his drug dealing car was known to police. Such carelessness and recklessness is unsurprising coming from a man driving drunk without insurance, whilst selling drugs.
It is difficult to think of anything more daft, but daftness can be said to be the blue print of many drug dealers. The idea that a dealer can think it is fine and safe to keep so much drugs in his house and his car, whilst drunk in the stupor of his actions, is ludicrous. More ludicrous is how he thought reversing his car into a police vehicle will help him escape detection. Though we can make allowance for his distorted judgment because of his misguided alcohol in take. The £11,000 worth of heroine, crack cocaine, and cash, has now gone, and he has been jailed for three years. You can bet there will be someone lined up to continue his dirty job. They will be stupid to take over immediately, but they need to compensate for the £11,000 lost, don’t they?
The waiting cats for their fix will go elsewhere if immediate replacement is not sought. Instead of fearing the consequences of being caught and shunning the destruction to several lives, money will be their main consideration. Some of the money seized may owed to someone; this capture may indeed lead to internal conflict in the drug world of Hurst. Will they learn a lesson that so much drugs and money should not be assembled in one or two places? Well, options are limited, and leaving them elsewhere means risking them being robbed. Drug rivals gloat on the idea of robbing other dealers. The truth is that they should not be dealing drugs anyway, because it is a fast track to destruction. Destruction to the life of the dealer and the client. It leads to jail, street conflicts and ultimately death. Even for the luckiest of dealers who escape detection, it leads to a false sense of pride and lack of good moral values. They become a negative influence to other impressionable youths, and sets bad standards for children around them to follow.£11,000 worth of heroine, crack cocaine and cash, is not a worthy price to pay for 3 years in jail, and the thousands of life kept in destruction for self gain.
