Police smash Chelmsley Wood crack house.

A CHELMSLEY Wood man who turned his kitchen into a £17,000 heroin and cocaine cutting den has been jailed.
Police stormed Gareth Lucas’ flat in Heathmere Drive last month, in response to concerns raised by local residents.
Having smashed open the front door, officers found him with four ounces of heroin alongside weighing scales, a knife and small plastic ‘dealer bags’.
During a search of the 23-year-old’s home, crack cocaine with a street value of around £6,000 was also discovered.
Lucas (pictured right) claimed to be merely ‘minding’ the drugs for another man − a person he refused to name − but at Birmingham Crown Court last week he was jailed for three years and four months having admitted possessing drugs with intent to supply.
Det Insp Darren Lee, said: "Our officers forced entry to the house and were inside in seconds…Lucas was caught red handed and there was no time for him to make any attempt to try and dispose of the drugs.
"Lucas has a conviction for drug dealing in 2013 and community intelligence suggested he’d not learned his lesson from that and was dealing again.
"Quite rightly people didn’t want to put up with drug dealing on their doorsteps and the associated crime it attracts…they confided in us and we’ve taken action by shutting down Lucas’ crack house and putting him back behind bars."