A drug dealer found in possession of cocaine and a "punch knife" was found to be dealing heroin after messages were discovered on his phone. He had been messaged by a number of customers asking: "Have you got D?" and: "You got darker?".
The home of Dean Kelsey, 35, of Ebbw Vale, was visited by police on November 8 last year after they were called out for another matter. He was arrested and his phone was seized.
A sentencing hearing at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Thursday heard the phone was discovered to be a drugs line in operation between September 28 and October 3. Text bombs had been sent advertising the sale of heroin to around 60 customers.
