A drug dealer threatened a man with a gun in the middle of a Cornish town centre in the middle of the day. Jack Cejas was spotted by a motorist in Camborne town centre with another hooded man when he pulled the gun, a Glock pistol, from his man bag and levelled it at a third male in the street.
Appearing before Truro Crown Court for sentencing, it was heard how the anxious driver called 999 and armed police raced to the scene and Cejas was arrested by a railway level crossing.
The black pistol was later found in his bag and it was tested to see if it had a lethal capacity. Cejas, 25, of Carbis Bay, near St Ives, admitted possessing a firearm and ammunition as well as drug dealing on the day in November last year. He said he had found it and kept it for his protection as a drug dealer selling Class A drugs.
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His honour Judge Simon Carr said Cejas was street dealing class A drugs and had a firearm capable of causing death or serious injury which he cocked at the man in the street. He said Cejas found the gun and kept it for his own defence when dealing drugs but did not realise the lethal potential of the weapon.
Judge Carr jailed Cejas for five years for the gun charge, with three and a half years for drug dealing and 18 months for possessing the ammunition, the sentences to run concurrently.
