Kieran McKenzie, 34, from Newport was arrested on September 18, 2023 in Spennymoor in County Durham where he was living at the time. “He was shouting that he had rammed off the road,” Jac Brown, prosecuting, said. It emerged that McKenzie had been rammed off the road by fellow drugs dealers angry at a £35,000 debt owed by an “acquaintance” of the defendant. Father-of-four McKenzie gave officers the PIN for his mobile phone and they recovered text bombs to a small client list. The defendant, of Fairoak Avenue, Newport pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, possession with intent to supply cocaine and failing to surrender.