A drug dealer who ran from a car was found with heroin and crack cocaine after he was hunted down and bitten by a sniffer dog. The heroin was discovered after a man found a McDonald's bag containing the drugs on his drive
Dalton Raffell, 21, was being driven in a car in Rhymney, Caerphilly, at 11.35pm on October 30, 2020, while being followed by police. He jumped out of the car from a rear door as it was moving, along with two other men, with the driver of the Skoda Octavia left behind.
An officer approached the door and could smell cannabis emanating from the car. The driver was arrested and the search began for the other men. A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court on Wednesday heard a sniffer dog was brought to assist with the search and Raffell was found hiding in some bushes but then ran across some gardens.
