{"id":28054,"date":"2019-01-14T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28054"},"modified":"2019-01-14T13:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:11:01","slug":"drug-dealer-jailed-for-8-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/drug-dealer-jailed-for-8-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Dealer Jailed for 8 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A drug dealer from\nTipton who was caught with a stash of heroin, crack cocaine a stun gun\ndisguised as a torch has been jailed for eight years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandeep Singh was\ndiscovered with the obscure weapon in November 2017 after he was stopped by\nofficers driving his BMW in Wellesley Road, Oldbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 25-year-old ran\noff but was quickly arrested and a search of the area recovered a \u2018Taser\u2019 made\nto&nbsp;look like a torch, a BMW car key and his mobile phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His home in Charter\nRoad, Tipton, revealed heroin and crack cocaine wraps with a value of \u00a31,330,\n35 capsules of steroids, more than \u00a36,000 in cash and a set of digital scales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was charged with\npossessing drugs with intent to supply and at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 10\nJanuary was handed an eight-year sentence and disqualified from driving for\nfive years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detective Sergeant\nDaniel Cartwright from West Bromwich CID said: \u201cThis was a great piece of\npolice work that has resulted in drugs and a dangerous weapon being taken off\nour streets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug dealer from Tipton who was caught with a stash of heroin, crack cocaine a stun gun disguised as a torch has been jailed for eight years. Sandeep Singh was discovered with the obscure weapon in November 2017 after he was stopped by officers driving his BMW in Wellesley Road, Oldbury. The 25-year-old ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}