A drug user who spiralled into debt after the death of his baby has been jailed for dealing again after heroin fell from his trousers. Three wraps of brown powder fell out of Andrew Sheilds' trouser leg as he was stopped by officers on a field having been seen approaching two men, Cheshire Constabulary said.
The 30-year-old was searched and arrested on the field at the end of Lapwing Grove in Palacefields, Runcorn, on April 24 last year. Sheilds, now of HMP Hindley, appeared at North Cheshire Magistrates Court in Warrington earlier this month.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, namely heroin and cocaine, and one of possession with intent to supply heroin. Court papers said the offences related to a period of time from March 1 until his arrest, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Sheilds, previously of Camelot Way, Castlefields, Runcorn, was jailed for 12 months at Chester Crown Court on Friday, June 10. The matters took place before Sheilds was arrested, charged, pleaded guilty to, and jailed for possession with intent to supply the Class A drug crack cocaine during October and November last year.
On that occasion, he had been found travelling as a passenger with 148 wraps of the drug in a Kia Sportage linked by 'intelligence' to suspected drug supply. Jeremy Rawson, representing Sheilds at sentencing in November, said his client was a drug user whose consumption of drugs had intensified following the death of his baby two years prior, which made him 'depressed' and was a 'traumatic source of stress'.
He said this in turn led to Sheilds falling into drug debt. Sheilds was jailed in November for two years and four months and his latest sentence will be served consecutively to the one for which he's already in prison.
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