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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Yahoo
Man rolls Mercedes in 80mph chase then lands in bigger trouble
A serial dealer of Class A drugs led police on an 80mph chase through "very built-up" areas before crashing and abandoning his Mercedes. When police caught up to Lee Thomas on foot they found he was carrying dozens of wraps of crack cocaine and heroin. Cardiff Crown Court heard the 32-year-old, from Bettws in Newport, has an "unenviable" record which includes being sentenced four times for dealing drugs. On Friday he appeared in the dock to face justice for crimes from 2022 and from May this year. The 2022 offences involved drug-dealing in the Neath and Swansea areas. His role in the operation was discovered after police detained an associate, Christian Richardson, and found in his pocket 56 cling-film packages of heroin and crack which were then linked to Thomas by DNA. READ MORE: Shoppers hit as city centre car park shuts suddenly READ MORE: The Welsh market town that 'used to be brilliant' but traders say has been ruined by the perfect storm At around 10.15am on May 22 this year, Thomas — on bail for the drug-dealing — was driving along Malpas Road, Newport, in a Mercedes-Benz CLA with cloned number plates. After cameras detected the dodgy plates, a roads policing officer attempted to pull him over but Thomas sped away. "Road conditions were not suitable for high-speed travel due to the poor road surface," said prosecutor Nuhu Gobir. The officer followed for a number of minutes, eventually losing sight of Thomas, but soon came across the Mercedes crashed on its side in Pentre Lane, near Cwmbran. After a foot pursuit, Thomas was detained and caught with 20 wraps of crack and "numerous" wraps of heroin in his pocket, as well as £465 in cash, Mr Gobir told the court. Judge Jeremy Jenkins told Thomas: "You drove well in excess of the speed limit, up to 80mph, in very built-up areas where traffic was moderate to say the very least." Thomas pleaded guilty to possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply, being concerned in the supply of Class As, dangerous driving and driving while disqualified. The defendant, of Tees Close in Bettws, had some 32 previous offences on his record including dealing heroin, crack and cannabis, and flouting a driving ban. His barrister Ross McQuillan-Johnson argued the 2022 offences should have been progressed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) much earlier. "The CPS had sufficient evidence to charge him in 2022 but it took two years to charge him by postal requisition," said Mr McQuillan-Johnson. "He has an unenviable record but he tells me in no uncertain terms that the offending can be directly linked to his heavy reliance on substances. He doesn't seek to rely on that as an excuse. He is working closely with Dyfodol [substance misuse specialists] to deal with his drug and alcohol dependency." Judge Jenkins said the two-year delay between arrest and postal requisition was "lamentable, unconscionable and inexplicable", adding: "I question what more the CPS could have had, in terms of evidence." The judge took this into account in passing a prison sentence of nine years and two months, and a driving ban of seven years and seven months. As a security guard led him to the cells Thomas aimed a look at family members who sat in the public gallery, shaking his head with a disbelieving smile.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Joe Rogan claims Hunter Biden ‘could be president,' insists he's more intelligent than most people think
Podcast host Joe Rogan said on Wednesday that former President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, is smarter than people think and could be president. During the latest episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," with guest comedian Joe DeRosa, Rogan was talking about how convincingly he thought Hunter Biden had spoken about the draw of crack cocaine. "It's the greatest crack advertisement of all time," Rogan said. "No. If crack wasn't terrible for you, this guy makes me want to try crack. I'm not going to. Don't do it. I'm not giving any advice, but I'm saying this guy, like legitimately, this might be the best advertisement for crack of all-time," Rogan said. Flashback: Biden Challenged To Take Pre-debate Drug Test In 2024; His Son Now Makes Ambien Claim "He's a lot smarter than people give him credit for," Rogan added. "He's talking, and one of the things he was talking about was why smoking things are so addictive, why smoking cigarettes are so addictive, and the psychology behind it. He's not dumb." The podcast host admitted that the son of the former president could himself one day be president. Read On The Fox News App "He could be president," Rogan told DeRosa. "No bulls---." Rogan played a clip from Hunter Biden's recent viral interview with Channel 5's Andrew Callaghan, where Hunter Biden addressed many topics, including the science behind cocaine. Rogan Reveals What Persuaded Him To Finally Interview Trump Right Before The Election "The only difference between crack cocaine and cocaine is sodium bicarbonate, and water and heat," Hunter Biden said. "Literally, that's it." "And those things are pretty much free, if you go to a science store," Callaghan interjected. "You can go to your neighborhood convenience store and just get, anyway, I don't want to tell people how to make crack cocaine, but it literally is a mayonnaise jar of cocaine and baking soda," Hunter Biden said. He added that the experience of crack cocaine versus cocaine is "vastly, vastly different" and more article source: Joe Rogan claims Hunter Biden 'could be president,' insists he's more intelligent than most people think
Fox News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Hunter Biden describes how to make crack cocaine on podcast
The 'Fox & Friends' co-hosts react to Hunter Biden's appearance on a podcast where he described how to make crack cocaine and weigh in on Joe Rogan's stunned response.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Joe Rogan names very controversial figure who should be his Dem rival...and top conservatives all agree
Joe Rogan has praised Hunter Biden as Democrats' next great hope after the presidential scion's ranting three-hour interview tackled everything from his crack-cocaine addiction to the failures of the party. 'He could be president,' Rogan declared on Wednesday's episode of the Joe Rogan Experience while featuring a clip of Biden's viral sit-down with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan. Rogan lauded Biden for his frankness and intellect around the subject off addiction, adding that 'he's a lot smarter than people give him credit for.' During Biden's interview with Callaghan, the scandal-scarred first son explained the psychology behind addiction and Americans' perceptions of crack-cocaine, leading Rogan to call it 'the greatest crack advertisement of all time.' 'If crack wasn't terrible for you, this guy makes me want to try crack,' Rogan told guest Joe DeRosa on his podcast Wednesday. 'I'm not going to. I'm not giving any advice, but I'm saying this guy, like legitimately this might be the best advertisement for crack of all-time. 'He's a lot smarter than people give him credit for,' Rogan continued. 'He's talking, and one of the things he was talking about was why smoking things are so addictive, why smoking cigarettes are so addictive, and the psychology behind it. He's not dumb. 'But he's just a guy who became an addict, and that f**ks your whole life up. It f**ks you. You become a subhuman.' 'And your dad is one of the most famous people on the planet. It's so crazy. Rogan then played the clip of Biden explaining crack addiction. 'He could be president. How about that? He could. No bull***t. Hunter Biden, after all he'd been through, look, his dirty laundry's all out there. We all see it. He was a freak.' He added: 'He's smarter than his dad when his dad was young, and he was a crackhead.' A day earlier, conservative commentator 'Comfortably Smug' of the Ruthless podcast hailed Biden as 'the Joe Rogan of the left,' earning a shout-out from Megyn Kelly. On Kelly's own show Tuesday, she called Biden's honesty 'entertaining.' 'A little misguided on pointing the finger at others, many others for doing things that he himself has done,' she said. '[But] it was very entertaining to see him break out the machine gun, the rhetorical machine gun, and go after every prominent democrat.' Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow branded Biden's interview 'the most entertaining content [he'd] watched all year', calling him 'the left's Joe Rogan in waiting.' The interview, during which Biden teed off on everyone from James Carville to George Clooney, has secured nearly 2.5million views on YouTube. 'What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his f**king life to the services of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the f**king New York Times to undermine the president,' Biden said of the actor, who turned on the president after his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump in 2024. He also attacked CNN's Jake Tapper, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Carville, dismissing the democratic strategist as someone who 'hasn't run a race in 40 years.'
The Independent
6 days ago
- The Independent
Moment police handcuff bleary-eyed drug dealers sleeping in bed
Police bodycam captured the moment a pair of sleeping drugs dealers were placed in handcuffs while still in bed as officers executed a dawn raid. An investigation into a drugs line operating between London and Leicestershire led officers to serve a warrant on a property in Leicester on 5 October 2022, where crack cocaine with a street value of over £10,000 was found. Bodycam footage shows Miguel Figueiredo-Mendes and Jean Paul Ekombolo, both 28, being handcuffed after police breached the flat door. Figueiredo-Mendes, of Orange Grove in Chigwell, was sentenced to six years and three months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin, while Ekombolo, of Mast Street in Barking, was sentenced to four years imprisonment after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine.
