Drug dealer’s DNA found on cocaine stash

A drug dealer has been jailed after his DNA was found on a stash of crack cocaine.

Neighbourhood officers were on patrol in the Oxmoor area of Huntingdon on 17 March 2022 when they spotted a suspected drug deal take place.

Kyle Green was stopped at the scene and on the ground next to him officers found a part smoked cannabis joint, cash, a mobile phone and five wraps of crack cocaine.

The drugs were sent to be tested but the DNA on the packaging revealed Green was not a match.

Following further investigation, officers arrested Tyler Atkins-Jenner and his prints matched the DNA on the drugs.

Further cannabis and mobile phones linking Atkins-Jenner to drug dealing were then discovered at his home in Graveley Road, Offord D’Arcy.

At Peterborough Crown Court on 19 July, Atkins-Jenner, 25, was sentenced to two years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and cannabis.

Green, 38, of California Road, Huntingdon was sentenced to seven months in prison, suspended for 18 months, after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis.

PC Chester Lewis, from the Huntingdon Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “The team were not prepared to rest until the owner of the drugs was found and arrested. Drug dealing is a serious offence which brings violence and other crime to our neighbourhoods and won’t be tolerated.

“If you come to Huntingdonshire to deal drugs, we will find and arrest you.”