Peddler of misery jailed for over four years
A STREET drug peddler snared in a town-wide crackdown on dealers has been locked up for more than four years.
Phillip Quinn was seen twice by police dealing in highly-addictive crack cocaine which a judge said caused nothing but misery.
Quinn, 41, was convicted of supplying another dealer with a rock of crack cocaine – who then handed it straight to undercover police.
Five months later he was spotted by an eagle-eyed officer dealing in Duke Street, Hartlepool, from his 4x4 car.
Quinn was linked with the drug when his DNA was found on the drug packaging.
But when quizzed by police, he
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