Roy Frost, of Countess Wear Road, Exeter, pleaded guilty at Exeter Crown Court yesterday to possessing cocaine with intent to supply on September 15, last year.
He was found with 137 grammes of cocaine, worth nearly £7,000, when a member of the public reported a car being driven erratically on the A30 towards Ottery St Mary. Police went looking for Frost's car and found it parked in Ottery.
He went to speak to the officers and they immediately suspected he was on drugs because of his demeanour.
They searched the car and found a large quantity of cocaine and arrested Frost.
While he was allowed to the toilet, Frost was heard by officers making a phone call in which he told someone to "clear out the house".
Police immediately went to his address, which was on his driving licence, to search it.
They discovered almost three kilograms of cocaine, which was 85 per cent pure.
The court heard that cocaine on the street usually has between five and 40 per cent purity but Frost's was more than double.
They also found a cutting agent in the house and seized £850 cash from his wallet from a drug deal he had just done.
Frost had previous convictions for drugs offences including two of supplying cannabis.
Mitigating, Frost's defence counsel said he became involved in drugs later in life and had an addiction to opiates.
She said he was supplying drugs partly to finance his own drug habit and to make a living.
Judge Cottle told Frost that the high quantity made it clear he was dealing at a significant level, which was wholly inconsistent with dealing on the streets.
Sentencing him to six years in prison, Judge Cottle said: "That quantity of drugs would have been flooding the cities of Exeter, Torbay and Plymouth, I have no doubt."
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