POLICE investigating a burglary came across a car similar to the one they were looking for on a pub car park.
Blackburn magistrates heard while the occupants had not been involved in the burglary they had been dealing Class A drugs.
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Cory Linacre, 19, of Manor Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to supply.
He was sent in custody to Burnley Crown Court to be sentenced on December 23.
Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said Linacre was the driver of the car when police approached it on the car park of the Britannia in Oswaldtwistle.
They found cannabis in the car and also found a plastic tub containing snap bags and a white powder that had been thrown into a field.
Linacre told the officers: “You are going to have to prove they are mine.” When his house was searched they found digital scales, snap bags and over £1,000 in cash.
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