A dealer caught with bags of cocaine in his car just metres from arriving at work has been jailed.
Former Sunderland Football Club shop worker Gary Boughton turned to selling the class A drugs to ease his financial worries. He was just 200m from work in his Vauxhall Astra when police pulled him over on the outskirts of Newcastle city centre at 8.25am on November 5 last year.
When informed his car would be searched for drugs, he told police they would find some in a compartment under the steering wheel. Having recovered 19 wraps of cocaine, weighing 7g, he was told his home would be searched and he again told officers where they would find more narcotics. One package of cocaine weighing 30.5g was seized, along with 18 deals weighing 6.5g.
