A cocaine dealer advertised his illicit trade with a tattoo complete with his drug line phone number, a court has heard. Tattooed Mark Whittingham and friend and neighbour Jordan Tanner were running a significant coke dealing operation from their Afan Valley base.
When officers searched a number of vans owned by the men they recovered more than £31,000 of high-purity cocaine, while in the house of one of the dealers police found a stun-gun disguised as a torch. Police also recovered a laptop computer belonging to Whittingham containing indecent images of children.
Swansea Crown Court heard the dealers were caught on June 1 this year when intelligence led police to carry out a raid on Tanner's Cwmavon house. Ieuan Rees, prosecuting, said both Tanner and Whittingham were present at the property, and a police search uncovered drug-dealing paraphernalia including snap-seal bags and quantities of adulterants including caffeine which are used to mix with cocaine prior to sale. Under the dressing table in a bedroom officers found a working stun-gun disguised as a torch
