A MAN who is said to have had six wraps of crack cocaine stored in his pants bit a detention officer who was searching him, a jury has been told.

Aimer Thomas is said to have sunk his teeth into the hand of the member of police staff as he battled to stop the drugs, which may have been in his bottom, being found.

And once the £10 'pellets' had fallen from close to his backside the 30-year-old, who goes by the street name Flex, tried to swallow one, Swindon Crown Court was told.

But Thomas claims the drugs were not his and were found in his jacket, which someone else had been wearing that day, and that he didn't bite the man.

Philip Warren told a jury of 10 men and two women how the defendant, who has been before a court for drug offences in the past, was arrested on Thursday March 12.

Police had gone to his home on Westminster Road, Toothill, he said, where they found him with two men and a woman.

He told the court they found two wraps of heroin and some used wraps of cocaine as well as a number of mobile phones and cash.

Thomas, who said his name was Daniel Jones, was arrested and taken to the police station and one the way officers feared he was trying to hide something, he said.

Once in a cell he said he was strip searched and Mr Warren told the jury that CCTV would show the wraps falling from his pants.

"When he got down to his underpants he kicked off and started struggling and resisting," he said.

"During which six small wraps of crack cocaine fell out of either his boxer shorts or bottom, I am not sure if the evidence will tell.

"What they turned out to be was six smaller sized pellets of crack cocaine, weighing just a tiny bit under 0.13 of a gram. They were little deals that you will hear will sell for about £10 each.

"During the course of the struggle in the cell he looks to try to swallow one of these. Also in the struggle he bites the hand of a detention officer."

Mr Warren said three of the phones appeared to belong to the defendant, including one found on him, and some had messages relating to the trade in drugs.

They also had messages where he was offering to supply heroin to a woman he went training with at the gym.

When he was interviewed by police Mr Warren said he provided a completely different story.

The defendant said they had been smoking drugs which the woman at the house had bought while wearing his coat, and he unwittingly put it on with drugs still in it.

"That's not true as when he was searched they fell from his boxers," Mr Warren said.

"He further denied in interview that he had bitten the hand of the detention officer. He said his hand hit his teeth in the struggle."

Mr Warren said he also denied two of the phones were his and insisted he had nothing to do with drug dealing.

"He said that the money came from painting and decorating and he did some gym training," Mr Warren told the jury.

"He denies knowing much about drugs of drug dealing. You will learn in due course in the year 2010 he was in front of another court for doing exactly the same thing: supplying and being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine."

Thomas, of Westminster Road, denies, being concerned in the supply of heroin, possessing cocaine with intent to supply and common assault. The case continues.