A mobile drug dealer, who crashed in a residential Eltham street as he tried to flee suspicious police who caught him with cannabis two days earlier, has been jailed for thirteen months.
Jobless Jerrell Simpson, 24,(pic.top) of Denby Street, Peckham pleaded guilty to possessing £600 worth of cannabis, with intent to supply, in Clayhill Crescent (pic.bottom) on May 25.
Croydon Crown Court heard it was 6pm when officers in an unmarked car spotted Simpson driving an Astra van, recognising him as same man they issued with a fixed penalty notice two days earlier for having two bags of herbal cannabis.
A marked police car joined the pursuit and the defendant sped away, but lost control of the van and crashed into a wall, damaging the tyres.
Officers found a bag of cannabis in the passenger footwell and stuffed behind the centre console approximately 60 £10 bags of the drug.
There was a £20 float in the ashtray and Simpson had another £230 cash on him.
“The defendant is a mobile drug dealer, dealing drugs from the vehicle,” said prosecutor Mr. Mark Gadsden.
“I am satisfied you are a mobile drug dealer,” Judge Stephen Waller told the defendant. "In a residential street you lost control of your van and hit a wall."
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