A DRUG dealer who was caught with £10,000 of cocaine is facing a jail sentence.

Robert Muir, 28, was caught with a large bag of the Class A drug at his home, along with evidence including bags, phones and tick lists.

He immediately told police officers where he had hidden the drug when they arrived at his door in July last year.

Muir admitted supplying the drug from his home when he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last Tuesday.

Fiscal depute Aiden Higgins said that police officers attended at Muir’s home at Preston Crescent, Prestonpans, with a search warrant on July 14 last year.

Mr Higgins said: “The accused was told the property was to be searched. The accused volunteered: ‘There is a nine-bar of coke in a cupboard in my room.’”

As well as the cocaine, the fiscal added that plastic bags, mobile phones and checklists were also uncovered during the search.

The court was told that the cocaine found had a weight of 246 grams and the purity was about 90 per cent. If divided into one-ounce deals, the Class A drug haul would have brought in about £5,400, but if sold on at one-gram deals then the profit would have been about £10,000.

The fiscal said that enquiries and evidence obtained through the mobile phones showed Muir, who admitted being involved in the supply of cocaine, had been dealing since October 2016.

No mitigation was offered at this stage and sentence was deferred to June 11 for the preparation of reports. Bail was granted.