Peterborough dealer jailed after being caught with heroin and crack cocaine

A Peterborough drug dealer has been jailed after being caught with 65 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine.

27-year-old Oleksandr Galamon, was arrested on the evening of 19 December last year after being caught with £650 worth of heroin and crack cocaine on him.

Neighbourhood Police officers were on patrol in the Millfield area of Peterborough when were CCTV operators told them about a group of about ten people who had gathered in the Russell Street underpass – a place where drug users are known to frequent.

Galamon was detained for a search which uncovered 65 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin, £250 in cash and a can of pepper spray – a prohibited firearm.

Galamon, of Eastfield Road, Peterborough, appeared at Cambridge Crown Court on Thursday (10th March) where he was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin and crack cocaine, as well as being in possession of a weapon designed for the discharge of a noxious liquid – namely pepper spray.

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