Moment laughing gas dealer arrested after telling police drugs were Christmas presents

The Independent

A drug dealer caught with “party bags” containing canisters of laughing gas has become the first person to be jailed for possessing the drug since it was outlawed, the Crown Prosecution Service said.  Thomas Salton, 30, from Brentwood in Essex, had gift boxes for customers which included the nitrous oxide, banned by the Government in November 2023, along with ketamine, balloons and candy canes. A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Salton was found with 60 small canisters of the Class C drug, 48 one-gram bags of ketamine and £39,000 in cash when police pulled over his Range Rover on December 1 last year. Source: PA, Essex Police

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00:00 Is there anything in the vehicle at the moment that shouldn't be?

00:03 Because obviously that's ringing alarm bells for me now.

00:05 This was present, this here.

00:06 Okay.

00:07 Honesty is best policy?

00:09 Have you got anything on you or in that vehicle that shouldn't be?

00:11 No, it's just, it's positive.

00:13 Have you got the car key?

00:14 No.

00:15 Have you got your PNC?

00:29 No.

00:30 I think it was...

00:32 Okay.

00:37 Do you want to take a seat in my car for me, mate?

00:39 Yeah.

00:40 Just jump in the back.

00:41 Right, the time is 13.32 and at the moment I'm arresting you on possession with intent to fire class A.

00:52 Okay?

00:53 You don't have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention one question so that you're later relying on court.

00:57 Anything you do say may be given evidence.

00:59 Yeah, thank you.

01:00 Can I have that key, please?

01:01 Yeah.

01:02 It's all right, thanks mate.

01:03 Thank you.

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