A drug dealer who was snared as part of a major crackdown in Bristol has been jailed for three years and three months.

Simeon Sorhaindo was dealing on the streets of the city when he was arrested as part of Operation Mustang.

The 24-year-old father of one, of no fixed abode, supplied heroin to undercover police officers on four occasions last year.

Officers then raided his home in January this year and found drug dealing paraphernalia.

He was later arrested and pleaded guilty to three charges of supplying Class A drugs and asked for two similar offences to be taken into consideration when he was sentenced.

Richard Posner, prosecuting at Bristol Crown Court, told how Sorhaindo committed the offences when he dealt drugs to undercover police officers between November 27 and December 3 last year.

He said two officers were walking in Easton looking for signs of dealing on November 27 when they approached the defendant and said they wanted some heroin.

The court heard that the defendant took the officers to a subway and pulled out a wrap from a bag of about 20, took money and gave them his mobile phone number.

Mr Posner said the dealer told the Mustang officers he had other drugs.

On December 1 he said they met him again and were handed three wraps of heroin for £30.

Two days later two women police officers bought more heroin for £20.

Mr Posner said police searched the dealer's home on January 22 this year and found cling film and weighing scales for dealing drugs.

Sorhaindo was later arrested and admitted he had been dealing.

Kannan Siva, defending, described his client as an "expendable foot soldier" involved in low-level dealing and said he had sold drugs in a bid to reduce his "crippling" debt.

Sorhaindo was sentenced to three years and three months.