A dealer was brought to tears in court when the feds rumbled his stash of cash and drugs at his mum and dad's place in Loughborough. Jakub Cwiek, a 31-year-old roadman, had heard about the raid and chucked his phone into a canal to try and get rid of the evidence. But it didn’t save him.
When the old bill kicked down the door, they found three kilos of cannabis worth £11k, a pure block of cocaine worth £100k, and over £12k in cash. Designer creps and a Rolex were also on the list. Cwiek eventually copped to supplying drugs and holding criminal property.
At Leicester Crown Court, Judge Timothy Spencer KC gave him six years. ‘It shows a certain lifestyle,’ he said, dubbing Cwiek’s claims about counterfeit clothes as unlikely. ‘You were involved at a very high level, not a put-upon drugs slave.’ The judge also noted the cocaine could have led to addiction and even death.