A FORMER Wolfscastle man who led a conspiracy to run cocaine and cannabis into Pembrokeshire has been jailed today for two years and eight months.

Michael Broome, aged 30, arranged for cannabis to be delivered for more than a year.

And when police finally stopped him they discovered he was also dealing in cocaine.

Broome, who gave his latest address as Folly Cross, admitted both offences.

His brother Steven Broome, 29, of Renhon Road, Oxley, Wolverhampton, Ashley Brown, 25, of St Anne Road, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, and Michael Thomas, of Compton, Wolverhampton, admitted conspiring to supply cannabis. Broome was jailed for 24 weeks, Brown for 12 months and Thomas for nine months, all the sentences suspended for 18 months.

The three were also ordered to carry out 160 hours, 250 hours and 250 hours of unpaid work for the community respectively.

Robin Rouch, prosecuting, said on April 9, 2013, police stopped Michael Broome’s Saab car in Haverfordwest.

He immediately confessed that drugs would be found and officers recovered 13.9 grams of cocaine and 242 grams of cannabis.

Detectives then searched a property at The Green, Llangwm, and found weighing scales and other items used in drug dealing.

Police examined automatic vehicle registration recognition technology to discover Broome had been making trips to Wolverhampton and data on his mobile telephone led them to the other three defendants.

Mr Rouch said Brown and Thomas had supplied Michael Broome with drugs and Stephen Broome had acted as a courier.

He said money had been paid into various bank accounts in Haverfordwest and later withdrawn at branches in Wolverhampton. More than £4,000 had gone into accounts that Brown could access and £1,900 into accounts associated with Thomas.

“Michael Broome was obviously more involved. He was a heavy user of cocaine and would deal in some of the drugs and consume the rest himself,” added Mr Rouch.

Michael Broome’s barrister, Frank Phillips, said at first he had taken cocaine to relieve pain caused by a hernia but had become addicted to such an extent that he had once collapsed in front of his manager at work crying because the drug had “taken control.”

Ekwall Tiwana, representing the other three defendants, said, “They will not trouble the Principality of Wales again, they have assured me of that.”

Judge Paul Thomas said the other three had been motivated by greed.

“People who get involved in supplying drugs do so out of greed and to make money, knowing the effect it will have on other people and that if they are caught it is likely a prison sentence will follow.

“They get involved with their eyes wide open,” he added.

Judge Thomas warned Steven Broome, Brown and Michael Thomas that if they failed to complete the community orders they would be brought back to court “and I will send you to prison.”