Drug dealer caught on his own dashcam

A DRUG dealer has been jailed after he was caught in the act by his own car’s dashboard camera.

Scott Curtis, 45, was recorded saying that he sold ‘gear’ as he conducted class A drug deals from his yellow Ford Focus.

Last September, police caught Curtis throwing small bags of cocaine and heroin out of his car window after they pulled him over, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard last month. He claimed it was all for his own personal use, police said, with officers also finding cannabis plants at his home during a search.

But they then discovered Curtis’s car’s dashcam which contained two hours of footage showing some of his latest deals. In one scene he is seen on the phone, saying: ‘I don’t do Valium, gear I do’, and agreeing the price ‘three for 25’.

The deal is recorded in full view of the camera. Curtis, from, Aberdare, south Wales, was jailed for two years and six months after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine and possessing heroin with intent to supply and producing cannabis.

South Wales Police’s Detective Constable Steve Woolley said: ‘When we played back [Curtis’s] own dashcam footage, I don’t think he could quite believe it.’

Meanwhile police in Lincolnshire have found a massive cannabis factory hidden in a nondescript industrial unit. The grey building in Scunthorpe contained more than 15,000 plants with a street value of up to £4million.

Three men were arrested. Two, aged 29 and 48, were charged with producing a controlled drug and one man, 50, was charged with supplying controlled drugs. They were due to appear in court yesterday.