A teenager caught peddling cocaine for a Manchester drugs gang went on the run for almost a year before being jailed.
Talha Chaudry was arrested after police saw him acting suspiciously outside a café in Swansea, South Wales. Chaudry, who was 18 at the time, had been sent to the city to sell cocaine and was staying in a hotel room, which he paid for each day in cash.
James Hartson, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court that at lunchtime on January 13, 2020, police officers on Swansea's High Street saw a male trying to hide from them in the doorway of a café. When the officers approached the man he smelled strongly of cannabis, Wales Online reports.
