Cocaine dealer stopped in Wetherspoon’s car park jailed for string of offences

Police custody image Ervin Billa, pictured with a beard, short brown hair and a grey top who was found with cocaine deals in a Rugeley Wetherspoon's pub car park
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A cocaine dealer caught in a Wetherspoon’s car park has been put behind bars after admitting a number of serious offences. Ervin Billa was stopped in a car park of the The Plaza pub in, St Paul's Road, Rugeley, on Wednesday, October 30, last year by officers.

He was caught selling drugs and found with 15 separate deals of cocaine on him, a phone and a Romanian passport in another person’s name. The car was registered to that name.

Billa was arrested and charged with possession with intent to supply cocaine, possessing identity documents with intent, knowingly entering the UK in breach of a deportation order, using a motor vehicle without a licence and using a motor vehicle without third-party insurance.

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The 23-year-old of no fixed address admitted all the offences at an earlier court hearing. He was jailed for three years at Stafford Crown Court on Tuesday (January 28).

A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said: “We’re working hard every day across Staffordshire to target the criminal gangs involved in serious organised crime. Those committing high-harm offences in our communities are being robustly targeted, including those responsible for criminal exploitation, county lines, drug dealing and serious violence.

“If you spot drug dealing in your area, call us on 101 or use Live Chat on our website. To report anonymously, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”