A heroin dealer who was jailed for more than six years has appeared back in court as £10,000 of his criminal cash is seized.
Neil Coates was jailed last October for his role in supplying heroin after he was caught with Class A drugs valued at £28,000 alongside an accomplice.
He was initially arrested in the Midlands after officers found him asleep in his car while in possession of a knife and a baton and heroin worth £10,000. The arrest triggered a search of his home address in Elswick where officers from Northumbria Police recovered another half a kilo of heroin.
