Oldham man caged after 150 wraps of crack cocaine were found during house search
A 19-year-old man from Oldham, Callum Johnson, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after police found 150 wraps of crack cocaine, £1,500 in cash, cannabis, and drug-related messages on his phone during a search of his home. The arrest was initially unrelated to drugs, stemming from an affray and criminal damage investigation.
Teenager Callum Johnson began a 21-month prison sentence Friday after police who visited his Vulcan Street bedroom in Oldham on 4 March discovered a shoebox stuffed with £1,500 cash, cannabis and weighing scales beneath his bed, plus a plastic bag holding five golf-ball-sized rocks of crack cocaine worth up to £2,190 on the street.
The 19-year-old, arrested while still asleep as officers investigated an unrelated affray and criminal damage complaint, had been running what detectives labelled the “Turbo line”: a mobile phone that carried daily “flare” messages advertising Class A drugs and, when broken down, could yield more than 150 individual wraps from the seized rocks.
Johnson admitted possession with intent to supply Class A drugs at an earlier hearing and was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court.
DC Michelle Lomax of GMP’s Organised Crime Unit said the find “highlights the vigilance and professionalism of our officers” and warned that the force “will relentlessly pursue all those involved in criminal activity until they are brought to justice.”
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