Man jailed after hiding cocaine in police car

A man has been jailed for six years after he tried to hide a cocaine stash worth almost £5,000 under the seat of a police car following his arrest.

Shaun Clawson, from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, was travelling as a passenger in a car stopped by police officers on the A40 near St Clears, Carmarthenshire, on 1 February.

Clawson was found with a phone, a cling film wrap and spoon containing traces of white powder in the footwell where he had been sitting, Dyfed-Powys police said.

After his arrest, police in-car camera footage showed Clawson removing a cling-film wrap from the back of his trousers and dropping it on the floor of the police car while being conveyed to custody, the force added.

The wrap contained approximately 48.5g of crack cocaine, worth an estimated £4,850, police said.

Clawson pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine at Swansea Crown Court and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Three other suspects were also arrested at the scene for possession with intent to supply a class A drug and have been bailed pending further enquiries, Dyfed-Powys Police said.