Street Dealer Caught In Secret Police Drugs Sting

A crack and heroin dealer caught in an undercover police sting at a notorious drugs hotspot has been jailed for two years and four months.

Jobless Aaron Dutton, 28, White Hart Lane, Tottenham, North London, sold £20-£30 wraps of the drug to ‘Dave’ in Quill Street Market, Finsbury Park.

He pleaded guilty at Blackfriars Crown Court to three counts of supplying crack cocaine and three counts of supplying heroin on three consecutive days between July 21 and 23, last year.

Prosecutor Mr. Mark James-Dawson told the court undercover police were targeting the area’s drug dealers and an officer identified only as ‘Dave’ made the “test purchases” when approached by Dutton.

The defendant gave the officer his mobile phone number to set up future deals and was also filmed by an undercover surveillance team.

He vanished when paid £20 for drugs on August 13, but was eventually arrested and charged on January 19, this year.

“Through these courts day after day pass thieves, robbers and burglars who steal to buy drugs,” Judge John Hillen told junkie Dutton. “Those involved in the supply of drugs are responsible for crime on a huge scale.

“You were part of a chain of criminality and were caught by a police undercover operation.”