A man arrested in Huddersfield after supplying undercover police officers with crack cocaine and heroin has been jailed for a total of six years eight months.
Aaron Corion was caught as part of Operation Overwood, targeting drug suppliers in Kirklees.
And while on bail, he was found to be growing cannabis for his own use - when his basement cannabis farm caught fire.
John Bull, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court two undercover officers were in Huddersfield on January 10 last year when they met drug users who gave them Corion’s number and an arrangement was made for them to go to Springwood Avenue.
When they got there they rang him again and he arrived and supplied them with one wrap of heroin and one wrap of crack cocaine for £20.
They rang him again on January 13 and 14 and made similar arrangements each time meeting him at Springwood Avenue and receiving crack cocaine and heroin.
He was identified from images taken during the operation by an officer who knew him and was arrested on June 6 from an address in Crosland Street, Crosland Moor. Police also recovered 12.8 grammes of skunk cannabis and a set of weighing scales.
Mr Bull said at that time Corion said the cannabis was for his own use and denied involvement in supplying drugs saying he used the scales for weighing jewellery.
He was bailed and on February 15 this year firefighters were called to the address in Crosland Street used by his partner who reported a fire in the cellar.
They discovered a small cannabis farm with five or six medium sized plants and about 16 seedlings. Corion accepted he was responsible for growing the plants for his own use.
The court heard he was liable for a minimum sentence because of two previous drug trafficking convictions in 2004 and 2009.
Adam Birkby representing Corion said he was realistic about his sentence for the Class A offences. “This was a thoroughly unsophisticated operation. He was in effect a one man band using his own phone and his own nickname which anyone could find looking on Google.”
He said Corion had talent in the music production business and was determined to change his life after his release for the sake of his children whom he would miss in custody.
Corion, 31, recently of Strathyre Avenue, London, admitted three offences of supplying heroin, three of supplying crack cocaine, possessing cannabis and producing cannabis.
Judge Sally Cahill QC told him: “You have a choice to make if you want to see your children you have to give up this kind of lifestyle, if you don’t you will go to prison for longer and longer periods.”
