Drug dealer caught on camera pretending to run takeaway while selling heroin and crack cocaine
Dawid Bialek was filmed asking customers for their orders before passing wraps of heroin and crack cocaine through a window. The footage was among the evidence that helped secure a four-year, nine-month prison sentence.
This is the moment a brazen drug dealer pretended to work in a takeaway while preparing wraps of crack cocaine and heroin.
Dawid Bialek, 30, was filmed asking a 'customer' through a window: "Can I take your order please? What would you like?"
The customer replied '801' before Bialek cheerfully responded: "Your order's on it's way, sir".
Footage seized by police shows the bizarre takeaway-style routine in which he puts the drugs into what appears to be a Kinder egg container before handing them through the window.
The clip helped land the Class A dealer behind bars for four years and nine months.
On May 11, police spotted him trying to chuck a package into a canal.
Officers were patrolling a towpath near Quayside, Leigh, Greater Manchester, when they saw Bialek attempting to discard the suspicious package in the water.
They managed to retrieve it and discovered multiple wraps of suspected Class A drugs.
Further enquiries led officers to an address in Leigh, where they uncovered more suspected drugs, weighing scales, empty wraps and mobile phones.
Bialek was initially bailed while police continued their investigation.
But just over a month later, on June 19, plain-clothes officers caught him in the act again.
They spotted him in an alleyway near the canal towpath in Leigh town centre, handing out wraps of heroin and crack cocaine to other people.
He was stopped and searched and found carrying more drugs and cash.
This time, he was charged and remanded in custody.
Bialek initially pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court over the summer.
But police examining his seized mobile phones uncovered evidence including messages, videos and notes linked to his drug-dealing operation.
Among the discoveries was the video of him playing a fast-food worker while wraps of Class A drugs were being prepared.
Faced with the evidence, Bialek changed his plea to guilty.
He admitted four counts of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs, involving heroin and crack cocaine, and handling stolen goods.
Bialek, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on October 30.
A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said: "This result demonstrates our commitment to targeting those responsible for bringing drugs into Leigh and disrupting the criminality associated with them."