Skegness woman who allowed home to be used for storing heroin and crack-cocaine as part of ‘Scouse’ Line drug dealing operation has turned life around, Lincoln Crown Court told
A Skegness woman who allowed her home to be used for storing heroin and crack-cocaine was spared jail after turning her life around.
Tegan Maltpress, 23, was arrested after police found Class A drugs and cash during a search of her Ellis Court address in January 2023.
At the time of the search Maltpress was in a relationship with Skegness man Connor Stewart who is due to be sentenced for conspiring to supply heroin and crack-cocaine in the resort.
Lincoln Crown Court heard Stewart was working alongside a second local man called Joel Tasker, 31, who had created the drug dealing operation which was known to users as the "Scouse line."
Police were called to the Ellis Court address which Stewart shared with Maltpress on January 8, 2023 after reports that windows had been broken.
On that occasion Stewart asked Maltpress to hide drugs and remove a SIM card from a mobile phone, the court was told.
When officers returned to search the property three days later they found bags of heroin and crack-cocaine, £1,025 in cash and weighing scales.
Maltpress admitted two charges of allowing her premises to be used for the storage of Class A drugs over a four week period.
The prosecution accepted Maltpress played no role in the drug operation except to hide items from the police when asked to do so.
Adam Pearson, mitigating, said Maltpress attended court with the support of a loving family and had turned her life around in the last two years.
Mr Pearson said Maltpress was due to give birth in the next ten weeks and had remained out of trouble.
Passing sentence Judge Simon Hirst told Maltpress her offending passed the custody threshold because of the involvment with Class A drugs.
But Judge Hirst said he was able to suspend the sentence because of the efforts she had made.
Maltpress was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for two years and must also complete 35 rehabilitation activity requirement days.
