Merseyside dealer tried to flood Scarborough with drugs
A judge launched a scathing attack on drug dealers targeting Scarborough for rich pickings after yet another man was jailed for his part in a heroin and cocaine-dealing ring.
Arron Lewis, 24, from Merseyside, was part of a major Class A supply network which flooded the streets of Scarborough with high-strength heroin and crack cocaine.
He was caught out when police raided a flat in Scarborough where they found 50g of the potentially lethal drugs.
Lewis and 31 -yea r-old Christopher Watt, described as a “dyed-in-the-wool addict”, were arrested and charged with two counts of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs between November 2014 and January this year.
Lewis, of Grafton Street, Liverpool, was also charged with two counts of possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply.
Watt, of Gildercliffe, was j ailed for four years earlier this month for six drug-supply offences and a burglary in which he nodded off while high on drugs and was found slumped in a chair by the home owners.
He and Lewis – himself a drug addict at the time – were caught by a police operation to bust a Transpennine drugdealing circle orchestrated in Liverpool.
Three weeks ago, Lewis appeared in the dock at York Crown Court along with six other dealers from Scarborough who had been caught out in a separate undercover police operation to smash a heroin-dealing ring.
Each of the dealers was jailed. Lewis’s sentence was adjourned and he appeared in court this week to learn of his fate.
Prosecutor Simon Kealey said Lewis had travelled from Liverpool to hook up with “desperate” addicts and supply street-level dealers under orders from his drug masters in Merseyside.
But he was busted when police raided Watt’s flat on January 10 and found drug packages with a street value of about £ 7,000. They al so found a mobile phone which Lewis had used to communicate with his drug bosses in Liverpool.
Judge Stephen Ashurst said it was obvious that Lewis was the “link” between the Merseyside drug gang and suppliers in Scarborough.
He added: “This s ort of crime, as you well know, is not solely related to the possession of drugs. There are fallouts between drug dealers and customers, and violence and theft permeates the trade. I’m afraid this is now a feature of life in Scarborough.”
Lewis was jailed for a total of 44 months for the four drug charges.