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Updated February 6th, 2020 at 15:01 IST

Drug dealer arrested after accidentally sending price list to cops

A UK based drug dealer, Martynas Benosenko was arrested by the police at a festival in Leeds for possession of cocaine and methylenedioxy-methamphetamine

Reported by: Ruchit Rastogi
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A UK based drug dealer, Martynas Benosenko was taken into custody by police officials at a festival in Leeds. According to reports, Benosenko was arrested for being in possession of cocaine and MDMA worth Rs 2,77,645. The police officers arrested him after they found him smoking and acting in a suspicious way. They went on to search the bag he was carrying and found 28 bags of cocaine and more than 60 methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) tablets.

According to reports, during the ongoing proceedings in court, it was revealed that Martynas Benosenko was a former Chef at TGIF but lost his job. After losing his job, he decided to earn money by selling drugs at the Leeds festival. The former chef was arrested because he smoked too much cannabis and sent the price list of the drugs he was carrying to the police officers. He also had business cards with him that read Flavour Town LS6.

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Published February 6th, 2020 at 15:01 IST

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