A drug dealer who brandished a sword at night club door staff and was found with firearms when he was arrested has been jailed for more than 14 years.
Jahzadd Ryan, 25, was thrown out of the night club Shooshh, in King’s Road, Brighton, at about 4.15am on Sunday 31 October 2021.
At Brighton Crown Court, Caroline Moonan, prosecuting, said: “He was aggressive and threatened to go and get a gun and shoot everyone.
“He returned with a black sword, 2ft long, and took it out of its sheath. He started to swing it at the security officer’s head. It missed only because he stepped back.
“Alfie Shaw, another security guard, grabbed hold of Mr Ryan. He threw the sword at Mr Shaw. It fell to the ground and broke.”
Miss Moonan said that Ryan told the police that he wanted to go back inside to collect some belongings, had taken cocaine and xanax and couldn’t remember saying anything about a gun.
She said: “There was a high risk of serious disorder and serious alarm was caused to the security officers.”
She added that Ryan, who told police that he was staying in a bed and breakfast in Brighton, had previous convictions for having an offensive weapon and for having a “bladed article”.
They found his phone with messages and calls linked to the Major drugs line. Miss Moonan said: “After he was granted bail, the Major line started up again with a new number.”
Miss Moonan said: “An officer leaving Brighton police station saw Mr Ryan acting in a way towards a woman that prompted him to call colleagues.”
Officers chased Ryan and, Miss Moonan said: “He was found in a back garden pretending to be unconscious.”
When he was found, he had £445 cash, cocaine and the Major drugs line. He had tried to dump other wraps of cocaine but they were found.
He told police that he was a heroin and cocaine user himself and that he had stolen the phones that were found on him from someone else.
But calls had been made from the drugs line phone to his mother and to his girlfriend.
Miss Moonan said that he was bailed in July last year and quickly reactivated the Major drugs line.
The court was told that he had been using a 15-year-old boy as a runner and he was caught with wraps of heroin – but Ryan was found not guilty of modern slavery.
You’d think if you were up to scumbaggery with drug dealing, you’d try to keep your nose clean and not get in trouble. Guess his stupidity won out in the end.
If this wern’t so sad it would be comedic, a two foot sword or large bread knife that breaks when hitting the ground? Were his firearms air pistols? 14 years for what? Incompetent stupidity, what a waste and when he comes out maybe he’ll have learned to use a real sword? One life and what has he done with it?, he’s been failed and in turn failed himself, so sad.