Two dealers who tried to sell £8,000 of crack and heroin on Brighton's streets have been jailed for a total of 11-and-a-half-years.
Michael Stewart, 29, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years and Steven Binns, 26, to five years after a three-day trial at Lewes Crown Court.
Stewart, of Hordern Road, Wolverhampton, and Binns, of Old Heath Road, Wolverhampton, were both found guilty of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply.
Officers had been alerted to the pair on March 29 when the manager at the Travel Lodge hotel in Preston Park, Brighton, said he could smell cannabis coming from one of the rooms.
Hotel cleaners later found a package of brown and white powder underneath one of the pillows in the defendants' room.
The men, who had driven to Brighton from their homes in Wolverhampton, were arrested when they left the hotel.
The police found crack cocaine and heroin plus £1,500 in cash.
After the hearing, Sergeant Paul Furnell said: "These sentences give a strong message to drug dealers within the city that the courts take a very serious view of class A drugs."
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