A show off drug dealer led police right to his front door after sending boasting images of his swanky city centre high rise flat.
06.06.2024 - 17:21 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
This is the moment a drug dealer attempted to escape police - by jumping into a river. Bodycam footage shows Fynley Jefferies trying to run away from officers, before throwing himself through a bush and into the water as baffled sunbathers watched on.
The chase unfolded in August last year after neighbourhood officers on patrol in Cambridgeshire spotted the 20-year-old sat on a fence with a man bag across his front and a black plastic bag. But as they turned around to speak to him, Jefferies ran off.
The video later shows a soaked Jefferies emerging from the water at St Neols, having tied his man bag to some hanging branches.
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He tells officers, “What it was yeah is I was so scared because I’d been smoking a joint.”
"Come on, out you pop”, one says to him, while a second observes “you’ve lost your bag as well mate – surprisingly”.
A paddleboarder helped officers to retrieve the bag, which contained £325 in cash as well as cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine – with a street value of £2,000, a court heard.
Jefferies was arrested and later admitted to possession with intent to supply cocaine and MDMA, possession of cannabis and harassment without violence and malicious communication.
The 20-year-old, of Parker Close, Eynesbury, was sentenced on Tuesday (June 4) at Cambridge Crown Court to three years and 11 months in prison.
Pc Neal Bartley, from the St Neots neighbourhood policing team, said: “Jefferies put his life at risk by jumping into the river in an attempt to hide his drugs and cash from us.
“Unfortunately for him we knew exactly what he was up to and with help from a member of the public, we were able to secure the evidence needed for his
A show off drug dealer led police right to his front door after sending boasting images of his swanky city centre high rise flat.
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