A FORMER Towie star has been jailed after being caught with £144,000 of cocaine. Mike Hassini, 27, was seen exchanging a brick of the class A drug, hidden in a cardboard box.
It was between 85 and 98 per cent pure. Police also found smartphones and burner phones in the box. Personal trainer Hassini, from Brentwood, Essex, told them he had about £36,000 in cash.
He also had three more blocks of high-quality cocaine, along with boric acid, a hydraulic press, metal plates, and small amounts of MDMA at his girlfriend’s parents’ home.
Hassini, who was on the ITV show from 2015 to 2018, admitted drug offences at Snaresbrook crown court. He got six years, nine months’ jail.
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