A bumbling drug dealer has been caged after leaving his fingerprints on a Nando’s napkin that he used to wrap his cocaine in.
Ajaz Raja is free range no more after cocaine with a street value of £6,960 was found in a house on Lytton Avenue, Cheetham Hill.
Subsequent tests on the loot pointed to Raja when it was discovered his mitts had been around the fast food serviette that had once enveloped the illegal substance.
PC Darren Wayman, of Operation Cairo, said: “Once we presented the prints evidence to him he had little option but to admit to the offence.
“No matter how well drug dealers think they cover their tracks they will always slip up, as in this case.”
Alongside the cocaine at the house, on November 19 2013, officers from North Manchester’s Organised Crime Unit (Operation Cairo) found dozens of unused snap bags and a set of digital scales.
After being caught red-handed, the 32-year-old pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to supply.
PC Wayman said: “He’s now been jailed for more than two years so he won’t be enjoying a meal out at Nando’s, or anywhere else for that matter, for some time.”
Image courtesy of Frank Steiner with thanks
