A 29-year-old drug dealer from Folkestone has been jailed for five years and seven months after he was found hiding in a wardrobe when police came to arrest him.
Tallanius Bridgland, admitted being concerned in the supply of class A drugs, including cocaine and heroin, which were found hidden in a tub of nail varnish bottles.
Kent Police detectives linked a mobile phone number to Bridgland after it was used to contact a known drug user in the town multiple times in July 2024 and on October 2nd, officers visited Bridgland’s address and arrested him after finding him hiding in a walk-in wardrobe. A subsequent search with a police drugs dog led to the discovery of the drugs, cash, and a mobile phone.
Bridgland pleaded guilty at Canterbury Crown Court on November 26th and was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison.
Detective Sergeant Scott Drake said:
‘Drug addiction causes no end of misery to the lives of users and everyone concerned with them, as well as to those communities where the effects of substance addiction ripple out.
‘Dealers, who are the root of the problem, may go to all ends to try to avoid us but we will always strive to bring them to justice and to remove drugs from the streets of Kent.’