Jailed: Oswestry dealer used Kinder eggs to hide crack cocaine and heroin
An Oswestry drug dealer who hid crack cocaine and heroin in Kinder Surprise eggs has been jailed for three years.
Justin Owens, 40, of no fixed address, was found on two occasions with the Class-A drugs hidden inside the plastic containers from the eggs by police. The second offence was committed when he was on bail for the first. Owens, the court heard, was a drug user himself with 23 previous convictions for 54 offences mainly for burglary, shoplifting and drug use.
Prosecutor Kiera Vinall KC, told Shrewsbury Crown Court sitting at Telford Magistrates’ Court yesterday, how police found Owens with the drugs after conducting a raid in King Street, Oswestry at about 10am on May 21, 2021.
She said: “Officers found the defendant in the kitchen and detained him for a search and while items connected with drug use were found, officers found no drugs.”
