A drug dealer has been jailed for more than two years after police found cash, heroin and monkey dust in Stoke-on-Trent.

Wayne Forrester, 57, from Fenton, was sentenced at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on Friday (3 November) to two years and three months in jail after pleading guilty to possessing heroin, being concerned in the supply of class B drugs, possession with intent to supply class B drugs and supplying class B drugs.

It comes after Staffordshire Police stopped Forrester on two separate occasions in Fenton last year.

Wayne Forrester was sentenced to two years and three months in jail after pleading guilty at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court (Staffordshire Police).

Police first stopped him in August on Derry Street and seized heroin, class B drugs, more than £500 in cash and a mobile phone.

The drugs seized were worth up to £1,130 and Forrester was released under investigation.

A month later, police stopped Forrester again in Fenton and found class B drugs, £575 in cash and a mobile phone. These were all seized by officers.

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