A “lucrative” drugs line across Cardiff and Caerphilly borough with more than 100 customers was busted after a lengthy police pursuit through the city. Zack Gibbs was followed by police to City Road in Cardiff after officers became suspicious of a woman walking towards Gibbs’ stolen Mitsubishi Outlander SUV on December 14 last year.
A sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court on Thursday heard how two officers in a police vehicle illuminated their lights before Gibbs decided to stop the car, get out, and run via a newsagent to nearby Northcote Street. One officer stayed beside Gibbs’ car while another set off after the defendant on foot.
A third officer also arrived on the scene and threatened to use a Taser to stop Gibbs who eventually surrendered near an alleyway at Northcote Lane. The officers recovered a mobile phone which Gibbs had deliberately dropped in the newsagents. The Huawei device showed “text bombs” had been sent on that day to more than 90 “customers” offering Class A drug while £540 was also seized from the Mitsubishi.
