![\"Hayley](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_hayley-hughes.jpg\")
Hayley Hughes(Image: South Wales Police)<\/p>\nShe was ‘heavily involved’ in a city’s supply of cocaineHayley Hughes(Image: South Wales Police)<\/p>\n
A woman tried to speed off after police spotted her dealing drugs in Swansea<\/a> city centre but was foiled by a dead-end street. Hayley Hughes, 42, from Portmead, had been stopped on April 14 by patrolling plain-clothed officers who had witnessed her in what appeared to be a drug deal.<\/p>\n A South Wales Police<\/a> spokesperson said: “When approached she sped off in her car but ended up driving down a dead-end street where she was detained.”<\/p>\n She was found in possession of two ounces of cocaine split into individual deal amounts, 3.35 grams of amphetamine, and more than \u00a3500 in cash.<\/p>\n Never miss a Swansea story by signing up to our newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n Her mobile phone was analysed which revealed her heavy involvement in the supply of cocaine to Swansea communities.<\/p>\n Hughes pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply a Class A drug and acquiring criminal property.<\/p>\n She was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court to two years and four months in prison.<\/p>\n A police spokesperson said: \u201cWe have plain clothes patrols across south Wales every day looking out for criminal activity like this.”<\/p>\n Get daily breaking news updates on your phone by joining our WhatsApp community here<\/a>. We occasionally treat members to special offers, promotions and ads from us and our partners. See our Privacy Notice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She was ‘heavily involved’ in a city’s supply of cocaineHayley Hughes(Image: South Wales Police) A woman tried to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,30,188,535,4884,81962,14884,1148,37604,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-203335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-drugs","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-portmead","14":"tag-south-wales-police","15":"tag-swansea","16":"tag-swansea-crown-court","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114723139361557854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}