A Woodthorpe man who tried to throw away a bundle of cocaine under a car during a struggle with police officers has been jailed.
The knife crime team was on patrol in Woodborough Road when officers spotted a car driving suspiciously.
They followed the Hyundai Kona, which continued to be driven erratically, before it came to a stop around 7.50pm on 4 December last year.
The driver, later found to be Daniel Comrie, tried to push past officers but was taken to the floor.
Officers spotted him discard a bundle of wraps of Class A underneath the car.
Comrie was arrested and police then carried out searches of his flat.
Here they found around £10,000 in cash before a drugs dog sniffed out multiple rocks of cocaine concealed inside the rubber seal of a washing machine door.
Forty-one-year-old Comrie, of Villiers Road, Woodthorpe, went on to plead guilty to possession with intent to supply both heroin and cocaine and possession of criminal property.
At Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday (11 March) he was sentenced to a total of three-and-a-half years in jail.
Police Constable Daniel Cresswell, of the knife crime team, said: “We suspected the driver of this vehicle had something to hide when we spotted it being driven erratically through Nottingham.
“Comrie tried to throw away his stash of drugs but we quickly recovered it and arrested him.
“Whenever we carry out stops like this we will look to search addresses associated with the suspect.
“With the help of a drugs dog, officers were able to recover significant amounts of Class A drugs which Comrie undoubtedly planned to sell to others.”
