A county lines drug dealer was snared by detectives with nearly £15,000 of cocaine and heroin at a Scots bus station.
Demetre Dobson, who is originally from the Birmingham area, was caught by cops staking out the Edinburgh Bus Station in the city centre.
Dobson, 20, was arrested after getting off a bus with a stash of drugs in a JD Sports bag.
His lawyer said Dobson was part of a “county lines operation” but was “very much at the bottom of this tree”.
In county lines networks, drugs are transported from one area to be sold in another, often across police and local authority boundaries, at the behest of gangs.
The network is often controlled with a single phone number or ‘deal line’.
Dobson appeared at the city’s sheriff court via video link from Polmont Young Offenders Institution on Thursday.
Fiscal depute Jack Caster said detectives attended the bus station on Elder Street at around 8am on November 28 last year after receiving “intelligence”.
Mr Caster said the officers waited for a National Express bus from Birmingham to arrive and arrested the accused when he disembarked.
The court was told Dobson was searched and brown and white substances were found in a black JD Sports bag.
Mr Caster said tests later established the substances were 72g of heroin with a street value of around £3600 and 110g of cocaine valued at around £11,000.
Dobson pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine last November 28.
Defence agent Chris McFarlane said: “This was a county lines operation and Mr Dobson has been brought into it.
“He is very much at the bottom end of this tree.”
Sheriff Nigel Ross deferred sentence on Dobson, who was ordered to remain in custody, until next month for reports.
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