A DRUG dealer who peddled his wares by cycling around Long Eaton on his bicycle has been jailed.
Officers searched Luke Tams and found he was carrying £200 of cannabis flowering tops and one deal worth £10.
They also found £610 in the wallet in his tracksuit bottoms.
The homeless 22-year-old was jailed for 20 months after admitting having drugs with intent to supply others on March 27.
Derby Crown Court was told that he was seen riding away from a house on Oxford Street. He had a plastic carrier bag on the handlebars.
He headed to the Market Place and the bag had vanished but police officers soon found it under a wall, said Edna Leonard, prosecuting.
"His mobile phone was interrogated where evidence was found of dealing in cannabis. He is a street dealer in a significant role," added Miss Leonard.
Tams was convicted of having cannabis in November 2012 and again a year later.
Judge Jonathan Gosling confiscated the cash and told Tams: "Your history is not very much in your favour. You have done exactly this before.
"You were locked up and released in October and the phone suggests you carried on," he added.
Alastair Munt, mitigating, said: "He was an addict who sold in order to feed his own habit.
"Any spare money he put into keeping himself in food and cigarettes. He considers these to be basic necessities."
But Tams had giving negative drug tests while in custody awaiting sentence and was keen to "start afresh".
His partner was getting a bedsit near Tams' mother, who is in poor health and would benefit from the support they planned to give.
Mr Munt added: "He is someone who is regretful of his past and who has a bright future."