MORE than £5,000 of heroin was found stuffed in rucksacks and hidden in the toilet of a Hull home, a court heard.
Four people accused of being part of a "major drug-dealing network" are on trial after two houses in Swinderby Garth, Bransholme and Mullion Close, east Hull, were raided by police.
Edward Badago, 35, Adrian Owen, 32, and Jolene Thompson-Carney, 31, deny conspiring together to supply thousands of pounds of heroin across the city every day. Mr Badago's wife, Lisa, 23, denies two charges of money laundering offences totalling £26,000.
A further two defendants, Robert Jackson, 30 and Ian Smalley, 43, have pleaded guilty for being concerned in the supply of heroin.
At Hull Crown Court, prosecutorPatrick Palmer told a jury how officers found 110g of the Class A drug stashed in three rucksacks in the downstairs toilet of a house in Swinderby Garth, alleged to have been used as a "safe house" for the drug operation. A "small" cannabis factory and bags of cash were also found in the kitchen.
Mr Owen was in the house with a woman at the time.
His fingerprints were found on a mobile phone, which was found in the rucksack holding the heroin, along with sealable plastic bags and digital scales which had traces of heroin on them.
Text messages from an "ASexy" had been sent to the seized phone, which the prosecution believe belonged to Mr Owen, who is also known as "Ado".
Another raid was carried out at Mullion Close, where Ms Thompson-Carney was with Smalley and Jackson.
There, police also found £8,650 stuffed behind the stereo, and digital scales with traces of heroin and cannabis.
One message found on a phone seized from Mullion Close said: "All I have done is walk about doing my own thing and I am selling bags mad. It just goes to show it sells itself."
Detective Constable Stuart Russell, of Humberside Police's serious organised crime division, said the "bags" referred to 0.2g heroin deals worth £10 on the street.
DC Russell said: "The author of this text is dealing heroin. Unfortunately, the demand nowadays is very high. I have inferred from this it was easy for this dealer to sell the drug."
Accounts scrawled on notepads detailing the "stock flow" of heroin and the names of 41 dealers, showed how scores of people were coming to Mullion Close, each buying hundreds of pounds of heroin every day, and selling it on the street.
Police cross-referenced the dealer list names to contacts stored in the memory of the seized mobile phones.
The phone police believe belongs to Mr Owen, held five dealers' names, while a phone taken from Ms Thompson-Carney's pocket during the Mullion Close raid had six.
Two days before the raid, a message had been sent from the phone found in Ms Thompson-Carney's pocket saying: "No, do it at 25-past because Ado might come for the paperwork."
Mr Russell said: "To the uneducated eye, this could mean anything but, in this context, paperwork relates to drug money.
"Plus, two days after this text was sent, there was a house raid where a significant amount of cash was seized."
Mr Badago was arrested during a third raid at High Park Country Park in Routh, East Riding, where £73,000 cash was stuffed in designer handbags, suitcases and sports bags.
The trial continues.
