A drug dealer who ran away after police raided his home tried to hide in a wardrobe in a stranger's house, a court heard. Officers armed with a warrant arrived at 19-year-old Brendan Vinter's home in Moston while he was 'working on the product', his lawyer said, packing brown powder and white rocks into small plastic bags.
He panicked and ran out of the property on Chinley Avenue, and made it to another house about 200 yards away on Edale Avenue, which was unlocked.
Police found Vinter hid in the wardrobe of an upstairs bedroom. The resident had 'no idea' that Vinter was there - and didn't know him.
During the chase, Vinter had dumped a shotgun. But officers soon caught up with him and he was arrested and found with a knife.
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