A TEENAGE drug dealer has been locked up for three years after being caught in a nightclub with a ‘significant’ amount of ecstasy and cocaine.

Joshua Bilocerkowicz, 19, was arrested on April 9 last year after management at Bar BB11, in Coal Street, Burnley alerted police after he was suspected of selling drugs on the premises.

When police attended, Bilocerkowicz, of Basnett Street, Burnley, was arrested, Burnley Crown Court was told.

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When he was searched at Greenbank police station, the court heard officers found seven snap bags containing a combined quantity of 1.21 grammes of cocaine and a bag with 23 ecstasy tablets inside.

The drugs were hidden in his boxer shorts.

There were two green tablets embossed with the word ‘Boom’ and 21 red and blue tablets with the word ‘Logo’ on them.

A later search of his home found a further 14 ecstasy tablets in his bedroom.

The court was told that Bilocerkowicz, who pleaded guilty to two counts of supplying Class A drugs, was at the time a ‘regular user of ecstasy and cocaine’.

He claimed that he had become in debt to another drug dealer to the extent of £2,000 and in order to pay off the debt had assisted in dealing the narcotics.

Prosecutor Emma Keyhoe told the court that Bilocerkowicz said on occasions he would travel to the end of the M62 in Liverpool with another man to pick up consignments of ecstasy, which he would then keep hold of and later sell on to friends and at bars and nightclubs.

She added that he had played a ‘significant role’ in obtaining and dealing the Class A drugs

Defending barrister Phillip Holden told the court that Bilocerkowicz had acted in a ‘naive and immature way’.

He added that his client was of previous good character and since his arrest had moved to Lytham where he had found employment and settled with his girlfriend.

Sentencing Bilocerkowicz to three years detention in a young offenders’ institution, Judge Beverley Lunt, said: “You are not an unintelligent young man so therefore you must have known the risk of dealing drugs.

“By your own admission the night in question wasn’t an isolated incident.

“One sees frequently in the media the dangers of ecstasy, with pictures of young people in comas and worse after taking it. The public must be protected.”