Man jailed four months after leaving prison

Tony Adams was stopped and searched by police when he was on his way to a probation meeting

A drug dealer who was caught selling Class A drugs four months after being released from prison has been jailed.

Tony Adams, 33, of New Road in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, was searched by officers when he was on the way to his probation meeting in Cambridge on 17 May, and £985.20 in cash was found.

He was arrested for possession of criminal property and officers found in his car 56 wraps of Class A drugs, a knuckleduster, a set of scales, empty deal bags, three mobile phones and £225 in cash.

Adams appeared at Cambridge Crown Court on Thursday where he was jailed for five years.

He had pled guilty at an earlier hearing to possession with intent to supply cocaine and heroin, possession of an offensive weapon in public, possessing criminal property and one count of having no insurance.

He was also banned from driving for five years and £1,235.20 of cash was forfeited to the charity The Light Project, which is based in Peterborough.

Det Con Charmaine Wood, said: "Adams was only released from prison in January and clearly hadn't learned his lesson from his previous stays in custody.

"Drugs ruin the lives of everyone who comes into contact with them, so I am glad he is behind bars and away from the community where he causes so much harm."