Two young drug dealers who had taken over a woman's home to supply cocaine and heroin jumped out of the window to try and escape police, a court has heard.
Leon Meminaj, 19, and Pedro Gaspar, 21, targeted the Great Yarmouth home of a vulnerable 61-year-old woman who had previously used drugs and took over her property to deal drugs.
Norwich Crown Court heard the woman called police on October 16 last year, telling them "her flat was being used by two youths to deal drugs".
Jane Oldfield, prosecuting, said when police arrived the "two defendants jumped out of the window with bags" but later went back into the property after seeing officers.
They came out after police told them they were armed with tasers.
Drugs were found at the property together with a phone, knife and rap lyrics which mention "bagging up class A drugs in a trap house" and "swinging a blade".
Meminaj, of no fixed abode, and Gaspar, from Manchester, appeared at court having both previously admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine between October 6 and October 16 2022.
Sentencing both defendants to three years detention in a Young Offenders Institution (YOI), Judge Anthony Bate said "each defendant, young though they are, played a significant role in the operation".
Andrew Oliver, mitigating for Gaspar, who is originally from Portugal, said his client had no previous convictions and was just 20 at the time.
He said he became involved after losing his job and "as a result was hit financially" but became aware, through associates, of someone being able to offer him work.
Oliver Haswell, for Meminaj, who had no previous convictions, said his client had made an "appalling decision" which was out of "the need to survive".
He said Meminaj, who was just 18 at the time of the offences, was taken to USA when he was just seven before later spells in Ireland and Albania before ending up homeless in the UK.
Mr Haswell said he got involved as he needed to eat and although knew what he was doing was illegal said he "had to feed my belly".
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