A drug dealer who made more than £12,000 from his “trade” will have to pay back around £1,300.
Lewis Thomas was convicted in November last year of possessing cannabis and cocaine and possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Newport Crown Court heard that Thomas, 22, of Glamorgan Street, Brynmawr had made £12,190 from drug deals he had only £1,310 that he could pay back.
Judge Eleri Rees ordered Thomas to pay the £1,310 within 30 days.
Thomas admitted the drugs offences when he appeared before Judge David Morris in November.
He was given a nine-month sentence, suspended for two years, along with a two-year supervision order and 120 hours unpaid work.
Police who raided Thomas’s Brynmawr address in March last year found about 35 grams of cannabis, scales and a grinder.
They also found 0.42 grams of cocaine mixed with benzocaine, which has legitimate pharmaceutical uses but is also used to “bulk out” the class A drug.
Two days after Thomas was charged with possession, police again raided his home where they recovered a bag with 75 grams of cannabis, along with clear plastic bags, scales and a quantity of cash.
He once again claimed the drugs were for his personal use.
Thomas suffered from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and was "relatively immature”, had started taking cannabis at a relatively young age and had "drifted" into supplying cannabis to people he knew, the November hearing was told.
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