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Dealer jailed

A man who was caught selling ecstasy to young people in a
Leamington night club has been jailed for two years by a Judge
at Warwick Crown Court.

Dale Dreslin (24) of Mason Avenue, Leamington, had pleaded
guilty to supplying ecstasy, possessing the class A drug with
intent to supply it and possessing cannabis.

He also asked for four other offences of supplying ecstasy on
earlier occasions to be taken into consideration.

Vicki Lofrese, prosecuting, said that at just after midnight on
November 11 last year two doormen at Silks night club in
Leamington saw some youths acting suspiciously, going in and out
of the gents toilets.

Putting two and two together, they stopped one of the youths,
and when they searched him they found a small bag containing
what turned out to be 0.36 grams of ecstasy powder.

The youth was asked where he had got it, and he pointed out the
defendant on the dance floor as the person who had sold it to
him.

As the doormen approached Dreslin he threw something to the
floor, but they opened his hand and found two bags, one
containing 0.67 grams of ecstasy and the other with some
cannabis in it.

So he was detained as the staff called the police, and officers
arrived to arrest him.

When he was questioned Dreslin, whose previous convictions
included a drugs offence, admitted he would have supplied more
ecstasy if he had not been stopped, and that he had expected to
earn £20 that night.

He claimed he had found a black bag with a number of small bags
in it in a lane in Lillington, and Miss Lofrese said the
prosecution could not disprove that.

He said he was not sure what it was at first, but a friend told
him it was crushed ecstasy.

Dreslin claimed he did not deal in drugs, but had put it in his
bedroom 'in case at some stage in the future he was approached
and asked for drugs,' said Miss Lofrese.

She added that at Dreslin's home the police found four ounces of
cannabis, which it was accepted was for his own use, and further
bags of ecstasy, and he admitted he had supplied the drug on
previous occasions.

Sean Logan, defending, said: "His remorse is very genuine. He
said in interview he felt like a complete idiot.

"He must accept he does cross the threshold into commercial
supply, albeit at a low level. The element of profit was very
slight, and the supply was to people who approached him.

"He did this during a short period when he found himself out of
work and between jobs. In the four months since the offence he
has ceased all drug use."

Jailing Dreslin, Judge Marten Coates told him: "Regardless of
how you came by these drugs, you are a dealer in class A drugs.

"Ecstasy is a drug we find is favoured in night clubs. It is a
pernicious drug which can attack every organ in the body.

"You come into the category of a low-level of commercial supply.
I have decided to make your sentence as low as I can."

28 March 2006