An accomplished young footballer was found with heroin and crack cocaine in his boxer shorts and a knife wrapped in paper when he was stopped by police. A total of 26 wraps of class A drugs were found in total.
Falikou Traore, 21, had moved to Cardiff to play football but got caught up in drug dealing after falling into debt. He was arrested by police on December 1 last year after he was seen dealing drugs to known users.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday heard Traore was spotted by plainclothes police officers in Roath Park with three other men, one of whom walked to a bush to smoke crack cocaine after their meeting. The defendant was detained by police and found in possession of a red iPhone, £624 in cash, a white handled knife wrapped in paper to avoid leaving fingerprints, and a small bag of cannabis.
