A drug dealer was caught red handed in Aylesbury after police discovered he was using the Waze app to find his way to a known addict’s house to make a delivery, a court heard.

Eleftherios Kentoglou, aged 25 years, had been spotted by officers in the driver’s seat of a parked Toyota car just before 4pm on April 22 at Birch Court in the town,  prosecutors said.

David Jones, prosecuting, said: “Police officers removed him from the car and he told them, ‘drugs are there’, pointing to the driver’s door.” 

Mr Jones revealed how 10 grip-sealed bags containing just under four grams of cocaine - worth £400 - were recovered from his vehicle, as well as £1,104 in cash.

Police then searched his phone and discovered that the iPhone Waze application, which provides mapping details, was being used, Mr Jones added.

“The application pointed to an address on Palmer Avenue where a known class-A drug user was found”, the prosecutor explained.

“The Waze app showed a number of recent addresses appeared to have been visited, at least five of which were known to be associated with class-A drug users.”

Officers had looked at the phone of one of the drug users and saw it had made calls to a number saved as ‘Albos’. There was evidence that Kentoglou was linked to a suspected drugs line called ‘Tony Albania’, the court heard.

A drug expert had given the investigators his opinion that the amount of drugs seized was more than one would expect an individual to have for their own use.

The prosecutor told how Kentoglou was from the city of Drama in Greece and had no previous convictions recorded against him.

“However, on April 1 this year, he was admitted to bail under investigation in Surrey in relation to suspected involvement in class-A drugs”, Mr Jones said.

Kentoglou, with the assistance of a Greek interpreter at a hearing on Thursday, admitted one count of passing class-A drugs with intent to supply and one count of possessing criminal property.

Iwona Boesche, defending, had been working since the age of 12 at his parents farm in Greece. He later worked as a hotel driver on Santorini, she said.

“He came to the UK in January this year hoping to get a job that would pay better money”, Ms Boesche said. “Instead, the people he stayed with involve him in selling drugs for them. 

“All he did was was collect the drugs in Aylesbury and take them to sell at addresses given to him and put for him into Waze on the phone.”

Judge Kirsty Real, sitting at the Amersham Law Courts, jailed him for 25 months. The court heard he would likely be deported on release.