A drug dealer caught with crack cocaine and heroin after he fled from a stolen car following a police pursuit in Leeds has been jailed for four and a half years.
Ruel Craig was also wearing a stab vest when he was stopped nearby by officers, and a machete and two combat knives were found in the car. Shortly before 1pm on Saturday, December 31 last year, officers in a marked police vehicle in Armley Road, Leeds, sighted a Mercedes C220 that had recently been reported stolen.
The Mercedes pulled out of the queue of slow-moving traffic and sped away with officers in pursuit. The Mercedes was driven dangerously, hitting speeds of 70mph in 40mph zones, ignoring give way signs and narrowly avoiding collisions with other vehicles while cutting across multiple lanes of traffic.
