Two cocaine dealers caught when police stopped the van they were dealing from have been ordered to hand over the profits of their business - but while one must cough up almost £11,000 his co-accused only has £91 to his name.
Swansea men Ashley Fulford and Kallum Owen were caught red-handed selling the Class A drug to a user on a Swansea street, and a search of the pair's vehicle found another two-dozen ready-to-sell deals in the glovebox. The defendants' homes were then searched.
The Townhill pair were each jailed for 34 months in June this year, and the case came back to court this week for a confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Swansea Crown Court heard police calculated that Fulford had benefited from his dealing activity to the tune of £14,465 and Owen by some £3,781. Financial investigators could find no realisable assets belonging to the pair save for the money recovered by police - for Fulford that is a bag found in his house containing £10,775 in cash, and for Owen it's the £91 he had in his pocket when arrested. A judge made confiscation orders in the available amounts.
