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Police said £12,000 worth of payments were taken on the card reader. A spokesman said it was thought to be the first time in the county that a drug dealer had used a chip and pin device to take payment for drugs. Slender was arrested in August after officers searched his home in Bishops Cleeve.
They found £5,800 worth of drugs, including cocaine with a purity of 93% which police said was some of the purest recently seized in the county. The card reader, which was plugged into Slender's car and charging when he was arrested, recorded almost £12,000 worth of drug deals between 21 March and 15 August.
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Slender is also known as Mark Wilson, and goes by the nicknames Guppy and Gup. Officers found receipts from the card reader, which read "Cheers, Gup". PC Thom Finnikin said: "He attempted to bring drug dealing into the 21st century by using a chip and pin machine to take payment for cocaine and subsequently showed his arrogance by putting a tag line at the top of each receipt supplied to his drug buyers."
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