Cannabis dealer had ‘table of varieties and prices’

PHONE SHOWED STREET DEALS AND BIG-CASH TRANSACTIONS

A DRUG dealer ran a lucrative business supplying a variety of cannabis strains to keep his customers happy, a court heard.

Kashmir Singh Rura’s illegal trade was rumbled when officers searched his home in Bradgate Hill, Groby, and seized 155 grams of the class B drug along with three sets of scales, a drugs press, cultivation equipment and other paraphernalia.

There were 100 aluminium containers including one labelled Sour Dog, the name of a particular cannabis strain, with remnants of the drug inside.

The police also found 22 banknote bands, used for wrapping cash, inside Rura’s home and two BB guns.

Katrina Wilson, prosecuting, told Leicester Crown

Court a mobile phone revealed the extent of Rura’s dealings with messages referring to money owed.

She said said: “Outgoing messages advertised what he had for sale along with a table of varieties and prices.

“Messages related to typical street deals and also larger amounts of multiple ounces and kilogram sizes with some transactions amounting to thousands of pounds.

“People were requesting delivery for their own customers who were waiting and others asked for a higher grade or strength, which he said he could provide.”

The 155 grams seized from Rura’s home during the raid on Thursday, January 24, 2019, was worth £950.

Rura, 26, pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis with intent to supply it.

Sentencing, Judge Keith Raynor said: “You were advertising drugs for sale with a price list for different strains of cannabis. You were making significant amounts of profit by dealing in drugs.

“In one deal alone you made £700 profit in relation to four ounces.”

He said Rura’s dealer lists also included reference to a kilo of cannabis for £5,400 and added: “The HMRC has no record of your receiving legitimate income from 2014 onwards.

“I have read positive references about you describing you as respectable, gentle, polite, caring and as a helpful young man who feels remorse, regret and shame.

“I take into account the delay in the case coming to court.

“But you were directing and organising wholesale and commercial supply for substantial financial gain and I have to consider the scale and nature of the operation.”

Sukdev Garcha, mitigating, said: “He began funding his own cannabis habit and it went from there, it spiralled out of control.”

He said the offending stopped two years ago and Rura had been working at a relative’s garage until recently.

During the lockdown he had also completed online food hygiene and safety courses to equip him for a career in catering.

Mr Garcha said: “He knows he’s brought pain and suffering to his family. He’s a hard working, loving son and partner.”

Rura was jailed for three years and two months.

You were directing and organising wholesale and commercial supply for substantial financial gain Judge Raynor