Dealer avoids prison after being caught by plain-clothed police riding bikes
Rodrigues also admitted 11 counts of theft
By Siobhan Middleton, 27 September 2023
Video: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/dealer-avoids-prison-after-being-27797313
A class A drug dealer who was caught by plain-clothed police officers on cycle patrols in Peterborough has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence. Officers from Peterborough’s Eastern Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) were in the Central Park area on the night of August 8 this year, in response to concerns reported by the community about drug dealing.
The team spotted what they believed was about to be a drug deal in front of All Saints Church, so they intercepted and searched 40-year-old Bruno Rodrigues. When asked if he had anything on him he shouldn’t have, he replied “Yes, drugs” and stated he had wraps of “white and dark” on him.
Officers then found a black plastic bag containing 83 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine in one of his trouser pockets. Rodrigues, of no fixed address, appeared at Cambridge Crown Court on Tuesday (September 26) where he was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years, after previously pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply heroin and crack cocaine.