A DRUGS DEALER WHO OFFERED CANNABIS TO A MAN HE T

A DRUGS DEALER WHO OFFERED CANNABIS TO A MAN HE THOUGHT
WAS A LIKELY ‘PUNTER’ GOT A NASTY SHOCK WHEN THE MAN APPROACHED
HIM A FEW MINUTES LATER.

INSTEAD OF ASKING PEDRO HUNTE,22, (COR) FOR DRUGS, THE

PROSPECTIVE CLIENT TOLD HUNTE HE WAS POLICE SERGEANT JOHN
ROLLASON, AND HUNTE WAS UNDER ARREST.

SERGEANT ROLLASON WAS ON DUTY IN PLAINCLOTHES IN WESTBOURNE
PARK ROAD, NOTTING HILL WHEN HUNTE CALLED OUT TO HIM ‘DO YOU WANT TO

BUY SOME HASH’, SAID MR MICHAEL LATHAM, PROSECUTING.

AFTER BEING ARRESTED HUNTE TOLD THE SERGEANT HE OFFERED HIM
CANNABIS BECAUSE ‘YOU LOOKED LIKE A GOOD PUNTER’, ACTON CROWN
COURT HEARD.

AND HE ADMITTED A MATCHBOX CONTAINING 2.

65 GRAMS OF CANNABIS

RESIN WAS HIS, SAID COUNSEL.

A MONTH EARLIER HUNTE HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN ALL SAINTS ROAD,
THIS TIME TWO POLICEMEN ALSO SAW HIM APPROACHING PASSERS-BY.

AS THEY MOVED IN ‘HE WAS SEEN TO DROP FOUR BETTING SLIPS’ WHICH

CONTAINED 4.

18 GRAMS OF HERBAL CANNABIS, THE COURT HEARD.

HUNTE, A CAR SPRAYER OF SUSSEX GARDENS, PADDINGTON, WAS

SENTENCED A TOTAL OF SIX MONTHS SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS AFTER

PLEADING GUILTY TO OFFERING TO SUPPLY DRUGS ON SEPTEMBER 20 AND

OCTOBER 15 LAST YEAR, AND POSSESSING THE SAME DRUGS ON THOSE DATES.

PASSING SENTENCE, THE JUDGE ASSISTANT RECORDER PITT WARNED HIM

THE SUSPENDED SENTENCE WAS NOT A SOFT OPTION.

‘ IT’S RATHER LIKE I’M
PUTTING A PISTOL TO YOUR HEAD, BUT YOU ARE PULLING THE TRIGGER’,
MR PETER FEINBERG, DEFENDING, SAID HUNTE WAS A ‘RUNNER’ FOR
OTHER DEALERS.

ENDS.