A 21-year-old woman who tried to hide 14 wraps of cocaine inside a deodorant bottle has been jailed for 18 months.

Police made the find after they stopped a VW Golf in Common View, Rusthall, near Tunbridge Wells, and seized more than £1,500 worth of cocaine and more than £600 in cash from drug dealer Ivelina Mladenova.

After stopping the car, police searched the vehicle.

A deodorant bottle found in the driver’s door pocket contained wraps of the Class A drug and was seized, along with a mobile phone and £40 in cash.

Mladenova was arrested on Thursday, June 10 and when an address she was using in Hadlow was searched, a further 30 cocaine deals and £570 were recovered.

The total value of the cocaine seized is estimated to be £1,760.

Mladenova, of Foxhall Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, was later charged with possession of cocaine with intent to supply and possession of criminal property – the £610 in cash which had been seized.

She today pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court and she was sentenced to one year and six months’ imprisonment.

Sergeant Ed Kavanagh said: "We are always alert to those who visit Tunbridge Wells to supply Class A drugs, and were quick to stop and search this dealer when she arrived in the town.

"It doesn’t matter where these criminals hide their cocaine. We can generally work out where it is secreted and an arrest is the inevitable result.

"She will also be forfeiting the cash we seized.

"Anybody else who seeks to travel here to make a profit on others’ misery can expect the same response."

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