Man jailed for possession with intent to supply Class A drugs

A man who was caught dealing Class A drugs thanks to a proactive stop by an officer on patrol has now been sentenced to more than two years in prison.

The officer, PC Sarah Kennedy, was on patrol when she saw the man sitting in the driver’s seat of a blue Mazda parked in The Hub car park, Sleaford.

This was at 2.20pm on Sunday 31 July 2022, and the man was Kevin Bushi, 21, of Empire Parade in Edmonton, Enfield.

After Bushi had spotted our marked police van he quickly left his own car and ran away from the car park. PC Kennedy pursued him and detained him on the East Banks footpath.

Bushi admitted having some Class A drugs on him for what he claimed was personal use.

However, the evidence found on him told a different story. During her search PC Kennedy found £140 in £10 notes in the inner zipped pocket of his jogging bottoms, and two medium sealable bags which contained 39 smaller so-called ‘deal bags’ with a white rock powder.

This powder was later confirmed to be cocaine. He was also in possession of a mobile phone.

Kevin Bushi

At 2.40pm, Bushi was arrested on suspicion of possession of class A with intent to supply, and a short time later was further arrested on suspicion of driving whilst disqualified.

He protested this, claiming that he wasn’t driving and, instead, “I was eating my KFC”. Our officers continued to dig while they investigated his case and found footage from KFC’s drive through which showed him in the driver’s seat collecting his order. He was charged with driving whilst disqualified and given points and a fine at the time, while the investigation into the drugs continued.

Bushi claimed the drugs were for friends to take at a rave, and they had all chipped in the cash to buy them.

We continued to build our case and brought in a drugs expert witness. He refuted Bushi’s claim, saying that in his professional opinion, the amount found on him was too much for personal possession for either him or the wider group he claimed to have bought it for.

Bushi was summonsed to court on 29 May last year to face a charge of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.

Yesterday (Thursday, 20 February) he was sentenced to two years and six months in prison, and was ordered to pay a court surcharge of £228.