A woman with a fistful of cash got in his car... they didn't know they were being watched - the messages on his burner phone confirmed what cops suspected

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

hereA marked police car was nearby and pulled over Ali after following him a short distance.As they pursued him, the officers noticed a package being thrown from the driver's window, Manchester Crown Court heard.It was later recovered on the pavement and found to contain 95 wraps of crack cocaine, and 10 wraps of heroin, said to be worth between £2,000 and £2,500 in total.The court heard both drugs were of 'high purity', the heroin being 69 per cent and the cocaine 62 per cent.Police also found a crack pipe in his car.

Ali had two mobile phones, one of which was a 'burner'.The phone had messages on it which showed he had made arrangements to sell class A drugs that day, prosecutor John Kennerley said.After being arrested, Ali gave a 'false.