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A man who was found with drugs stuffed inside a sock and more than £2,000 in cash has been jailed for 18 months – with the seized cash donated to a Chichester charity.
Alpay Seydali was arrested last September after he was stopped during proactive police patrols in Woking. When he and his vehicle were searched, officers uncovered a total of £2,270 in cash. Further inspection of an air vent found a concealed black sock with individual bags of cocaine stuffed inside.
Seydali, 22, (DOB: 09/02/2002), of no fixed address, was sentenced to a total of 18 months in prison at Chichester Crown Court on 17 January 2025. The judge ordered for the seized cash to be forfeited, and it will be donated to mental health charity The Young People’s Shop, based in Chichester.
Investigating officer PC Chris West, of West Surrey’s Neighbourhood Policing Investigation Team, said: “This result has removed another criminal from our streets, and is evidence of how important reporting information to police can be.
“Thanks to a great stop by the arresting officer and work by the Neighbourhood Policing Investigation Team we continue in our determination to protect the community and wider Surrey from organised crime.”