Drug dealer is ordered to repay £35,000

David Jon Lewis, of Daubney Street, who is serving a four-year prison sentence after he admitted two charges of possessing controlled drugs with intent to supply, has now been ordered to pay the 34,840 he was deemed to have earned from his criminal lifestyle.

Lewis was arrested on March 12 last year when he was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped by police and found to contain a small amount of cocaine, weighing scales and self-sealing bags.

When he was searched at a police station a bag was found containing smaller bags of cocaine.

A search of his home revealed a rucksack containing 13 bags of amphetamine, and other bags of the drug in the kitchen. In total, drugs with a street value of 5,244 were seized.

Gary Rowlinson, a financial investigator at Humberside Police's economic crime unit, said: "Lewis's standing in his community was based on his drug-dealing and associated activity.

"He maintained his home on the back of those activities, and from fraudulently claimed state benefits.

"The taxpayers of Cleethorpes, and those unfortunate to be dependant on the drugs he was dealing in, gave Lewis a lifestyle he would otherwise have not been able to maintain."

Lewis has six months to comply with the order or will have a year added to his sentence.

Last week, North Lincolnshire haulier Dean Gossop was ordered to repay almost 500,000 after the force obtained its largest single confiscation order. Gossop, 38, of Goxhill, is believed to have made more than 1m from criminal activities.