A drug dealer who was ordered to leave Scotland a year ago was caught in a Dundee flat less than four months later with £5000 of cocaine.
Police burst into the Arklay Street flat on May 18, where Oumar Jalloh was found with the Class A drugs.
Just months earlier, Oumar Jalloh had been told to leave Scotland when police caught him selling the same drug in Hilltown Park, while armed with a sharpened butter knife.
Jalloh, described in court as an African, had no connection with Dundee when he was first caught and is now remanded in HMP Perth.
Told to leave Scotland
Fiscal depute Lynne Mannion explained police first found the 23-year-old in Dundee’s Hilltown on January 31 2022 after they had been called about someone selling drugs in the area.
Officers found him and two other males when they arrived at around 4.30pm.
All three were searched but only Jalloh was found to have any illicit property – the sharpened blade and drugs, along with cash and mobile phones.
He was arrested, appeared in court the next day, released on bail and told to leave Scotland.
At that stage, Jalloh was registered to an address in Leicester’s Newfoundpool neighbourhood.
But just weeks later, police found him with a four-figure haul of cocaine at the flat in Arklay Street.
The address was registered to a vulnerable woman.
Caught with drugs a second time
When they knocked on the door, nobody answered but when they looked through the letterbox, they could see Jalloh asleep on the sofa.
He then moved out of sight of the police, who forced entry.
Inside the property, officers found 48.67g of cocaine, believed to have an estimated street value of around £5,000.
They also uncovered mobile phones and cash.
Jalloh appeared back in the dock shortly afterwards and has been behind bars since.
On Tuesday, he was brought from prison to Dundee Sheriff Court where he admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine between January and May last year.
He also admitted possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
First offender Jalloh will be sentenced on March 13.
Sheriff Krista Johnston ordered background reports to be prepared in time for this hearing and further remanded him.
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