A DRUG dealer was busted after police raided his home and seized phones, stolen laptops, and £1,100 in cash.

Ryan Abraham appeared in the dock at Swansea Crown Court charged with a series of drug offences.

Police raided Abraham’s home on Dyffryn Road in Pontardawe on September 10 after receiving intelligence that the defendant was involved in drug dealing.

There, officers seized phones, sim cards, stolen laptops, cannabis and cocaine, drug paraphernalia, weighing scales, and £1,100 in cash.

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Upon analysis, messages showed Abraham had been supplying cocaine and MDMA between July and September.

The court was told that the messages and Abraham’s “knowledge of the drugs trade” showed he was performing more than a lesser role in the operation.

The prosecution said that Abraham’s offending involved “direct selling of drugs to users”.

Abraham had “a number of highly relevant previous convictions”, including receiving a six-month sentence, suspended for a year, for being concerned in the supply of cannabis in July 2021 and being jailed for 44 months in November 2022 for being concerned in the supply of cocaine and cannabis.

He was only released from prison for that offence in December 2023, and was on licence at the time of these latest offences.

Drug dealer Ryan Abraham has been jailed at Swansea Crown Court.Drug dealer Ryan Abraham has been jailed after being busted in a police raid. (Image: South Wales Police)

Abraham pleaded guilty at Swansea Magistrates’ Court on September 11 to two offences of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs – relating to cocaine and MDMA, possession of criminal property – relating to the £1,100 cash, and possession of cocaine and cannabis.

Dan Griffiths, in mitigation, highlighted 22-year-old Abraham’s early guilty pleas and efforts that he had made to improve himself, and his youth.  

“Quite plainly, the custody threshold has been crossed,” the judge, Recorder David Payne, said.

He sentenced Abraham to a total of 40 months in prison. A forfeiture and destruction order was made for the seized drugs and paraphernalia, and the £1,100 was ordered to be forfeited.