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Wales Online
14-06-2025
- Wales Online
Husband and wife's secret life as heroin and cocaine dealers
Husband and wife's secret life as heroin and cocaine dealers Curtis Price, 29, and Sarah Price, 25, were found with various amount of heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine after police searched their unit at an industrial estate Curtis and Sarah Price were involved in the supply of heroin and cocaine. (Image: South Wales Police ) A husband and wife were exposed as drug dealers involved in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine which they kept at an industrial estate unit. When they were arrested by police, the couple's children were present, having been taken by their parents to the unit. Curtis Price, 29, and Sarah Price, 25, were seen by police driving at speed in a black BMW at Abercanaid Industrial Estate in Merthyr Tydfil on May 15. They entered a unit and locked it behind them, and remained there for some time. A sentencing hearing at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Friday heard Curtis Price emerged on his own and officers approached his car, which the defendant locked from inside. For the latest court reports sign up to our crime newsletter. Officers managed to detain Curtis Price and then heard shouting coming from inside the unit and when they opened the shutters they saw Sarah Price inside. Curtis Price, 29, was involved in the supply of heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine. (Image: South Wales Police ) When the defendants and the unit were searched, three mobiles, £350 in cash and drug apparatus were seized. Article continues below Prosecutor Emma Meadows said the following items were discovered in the unit; a Tupperware box containing 133g of cocaine worth between £5,000 and £7,000, 3.32g of heroin worth £345, a DKNY bag containing a white waxy substance which was found to be 67.88g of crack cocaine worth £7,000, snap bags containing 17 wraps of crack cocaine worth £255, 30 packaged heroin deals worth £450, and four snap bags containing cocaine valued between £440 and £650. Among the paraphernalia seized were bicarbonate of soda, bottles of ammonia, a breathing respirator, three weighing scales, Tupperware boxes, a Pyrex jug, cardboard, and two large knives in a Sports Direct bag. The phones were examined and revealed Curtis Price was involved in the supply of class A drugs, with Sarah Price aware of the operation and helping with deliveries and preparing the drugs. Sarah Price, 25, was involved in the supply of heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine. (Image: South Wales Police ) Both defendants, of Tremgarth, Trecynon, Aberdare, pleaded guilty to three counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs and possession of criminal property, in relation to vehicles found in the unit. The court heard Curtis Price has three previous convictions for driving offences and Sarah Price is of previous good character. In mitigation for Curtis Price, Hywel Davies said his client had lost his employment as a result of his mental health and felt pressure to provide for his wife and children. He said the defendant wanted to "give his children a better life" and for the family to have enough money to live off. In mitigation for Sarah Price, Elin Morgan said her client's involvement stemmed from her "naivety" of the severity of the situation and she had no influence on those above her in the chain. Article continues below Judge Richard Kember sentenced Curtis Price to three years and six months imprisonment and Sarah Price to three years imprisonment.
Axios
05-06-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Pride flags stolen from a Baptist church with long history of LGBTQ+ ministry
Among the recent victims of Pride flag theft is one of Salt Lake City's oldest churches — one that's part of a denomination not widely associated with LGBTQ+ outreach. Driving the news: Pride flags were stolen this weekend from outside First Baptist Church, a congregation whose LGBTQ+ ministry dates back decades earlier than many of SLC's other progressive churches. The intrigue: Baptist churches are widely seen as politically and socially conservative. That's in part due to the size and power of the denomination's largest sub-group, the conservative Southern Baptist Convention. Reality check: Baptist churches are exceptionally decentralized among Christian denominations. "Congregational autonomy was a central tenet of Baptist faith" since its founding in the 1600s, First Baptist's the Rev. Curtis Price told Axios. That means individual congregations may vary widely in worship style, orthodoxy and political ideology. Catch up quick: First Baptist has been a Utah standout in LGBTQ+ acceptance at least since the early 1990s, when it hosted the Salt Lake Men's Choir and the first ecumenical World AIDS Day services. The congregation voted for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the early 2000s when various Baptist alliances and affiliations were splitting over the question. The church began performing same-sex weddings years before marriages were legally recognized. When a federal judge threw out Utah's ban on same-sex marriage, Price grabbed his rainbow-colored stole and ran to the county building to officiate. What they're saying:"There were times along the way where the church did have to kind of make some choices. And every time they chose inclusion," Price said. The latest: Pride flags are stolen from the church grounds almost every year, Curtis said.
