A Welsh drug dealer in the midst of a crisis of conscience and desperate to turn himself at a police station in late December was told to come back during regular business hours so that his self-criminal complaint could be handled, the man told a court last week, Wales Online reports.
Anthony Edgell, 36, was driving an Audi A3 in Carmarthen on December 27 when he plowed the starter luxury sedan into a utility pole and fled on foot from the scene, leaving £5,100, worth of weed, £1,050 in heroin, £30 of cocaine in the vehicle. Cops were looking for him when Edgell dialed 999 (the UK’s 911) and confessed to the dispatcher that on top of all that he was driving without insurance. Edgell then walked to a police station and, per his lawyer, told the station was closed and he needed to “go back there in normal business hours.” The weed and heroin guy neglected to return but didn’t put up a fight either when cops found him at his sister’s house 10 days later.
Edgell, a longtime recidivist, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply class A and B drugs, possession of cocaine, and driving without insurance. The judge gave him 36 months in the clink.