A local man has been jailed for over three years for dealing cocaine and cannabis in Warrington.
Dean Hearne from Whitecross Road, Bewsey, Warrington, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on 6 July to be sentenced after pleading guilty to being concerned in the supply or Class A drugs and being concerned in the supply of Class B drugs at an earlier hearing.
The 41-year-old was sentenced to three years and four months in prison.
On Wednesday 19 November 2025 a warrant was conducted at an address in Copper Avenue in Warrington. Officers found drugs and paraphernalia which through DNA tests was linked to Hearne’s own DNA.
He was then arrested on Tuesday 21 April 2026 and on interview admitted to the offences, and that he’d been storing the drugs at the address – in return, the occupant received cannabis from him.
DC Kelsie Sherratt said: “Hearne’s thought he was being clever, but it doesn’t matter where you hide your drugs, we’ll find them.
“I hope this goes as a warning for others.”
