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Drug dealer told to pay up
A CONVICTED drug dealer who made £300 a week has been ordered to pay back £850 of his illegal earnings.
Cocaine dealer Allan Johnston was jailed for three years by Teesside Crown Court last November after police caught him with drugs worth more than 2,000 in a car in Hartlepool.
He has now been ordered to pay back 850 after prosecutors used their powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Johnston, 37, did not fight the application to claw back his ill-gotten gains and agreed to the confiscation order.
They arrived at the sum of 850 after examining his financial records to calculate how much of his assets could be recovered.
He jailed after he was caught with a fist-sized package of cocaine weighing 55 grams on February 13 last year.
Johnston, who was in the car with his partner, was pulled over by police in Park Road, Hartlepool, shortly after officers saw him in a pub car park.
He offered up the drugs when they asked if there was anything in the car that should not be there.
The cocaine was found to be of poor quality at seven per cent pure.
But it had a street value of up to 2,770 and the court heard that between November 2008 and February last year he was a street dealer.
The court heard that during that time Johnston, of Masefield Road, Hartlepool, raked in around 300 a week.
Scales, 590 and mobile phones were seized when officers later searched his home.
He admitted possession of a Class A drug with intent to supply and also possession of a number of diazepam tablets which were for his personal use.
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