© Provided by Metro Deborah Townsend, 57, spent the drug money on ‘modest home improvements’ (Picture: Shutterstock/NCJ Media)A woman has been busted for peddling cocaine – which she sold in order to buy new curtains. Plain-clothed officers managed to pull the blinds on Deborah Townsend’s escapades across Newcastle. When Townsend was stopped by officers and searched, they found four small bags of cocaine and 5.3g codeine tablets. She claimed she was selling the illegal substances to raise money for ‘modest home improvements’. ‘You were seen in Newcastle city centre and from what was found in your possession and found at your property, you were selling wraps of cocaine.

Source: The Star January 14, 2023 13:34 UTC