HEROIN dealer was jailed for five years for his part in what the judge said was the “miserable trade in drugs on Teesside”.
The Crown said that Gary David O’Hare, 31, from Middlesbrough who was caught with nearly £12,000 of the Class A drug was not just a street level dealer.
Text messages showed he was higher up the chain dealing in bigger amounts than just selling wraps to addicts, said prosecutor Michael Bosomworth.
O’Hare, pictured, a building contractor, who had served a two-year sentence for heroin dealing in 2008, was caught with 117g of heroin when police raided his girlfriend’s home in Brancepeth Avenue, Middlesbrough, on September 22 last year.
The heroin which was worth £11,700 was in a bedroom, and police also seized a set of scales with traces of heroin, a dealer’s list, plastic bags and £100 in cash, Teesside Crown Court was told.
An examination of his mobile phone revealed a text message from the day before: “Want nine of that stuff you have given us.”
Mr Bosomworth said an experienced drugs officer concluded the “nine” referred to nine ounces of heroin. He added: “We are dealing here with significant quantities, and not street deals.”
His previous jail sentence came after he walked in to Middlesbrough Police Station on June 12, 2008 and produced wraps of heroin.
Martin Scarborough, defending, said O’Hare was released from jail with a £13,000 drugs debt, and he had been working to pay it off. His family had now paid it off legitimately. O’Hare’s partner, the mother of three children, was standing by him.
Judge Michael Taylor jailed O’Hare, of Holdenby Drive, Middlesbrough, for five years after he pleaded guilty to possession of heroin with intent to supply.
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