A teenage dealer stashed his drugs in bushes — right outside a police station.

Antwan Anderson was spotted retrieving the MDMA by a police civilian worker who then flagged down a passing police car.

The 18-year-old then fled along Wharf Road and Bridge Road in Gillingham dumping the bag before he was caught by one of the officers.

Maidstone Crown Court heard police located the bag, together with the drugs, a knife and mobile phones.

Officers also found court papers containing Anderson’s personal details.

Prosecutor Tony Prosser said the civilian worker, who was leaving the station in the afternoon, had been alerted by Anderson’s furtive behaviour in August last year.

Anderson, of Peacock Street, Gravesend, admitted possessing MDMA with a street value up to £900 and having a knife in public.

Judge Martin Huseyin gave him a 20-month sentence in a Young Offender’s Institute suspended for two years.

“In the nicest possible way we don’t want to see you back here again..." Judge Martin Huseyin

Anderson was also ordered to do 180 hours of unpaid work for the community.

The judge told him the fact a week after being arrested for the drugs offence he was in court for shoplifting showed “you are not a dyed in the wool drugs dealer”.

The judge added Anderson had a difficult start in life but was showing signs of turning his life around and was now working and living in rented accommodation.

“In the nicest possible way we don’t want to see you back here again.

“It’s up to you to show you can remain on the straight and narrow,” he added.

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