A drug dealer who threatened a man with a Glock pistol in Cornwall has been jailed for five years.
Jack Cejas was seen by a motorist in Camborne town centre with another hooded man - and Cejas produced the gun from his bag and levelled it at a third male in the street.
The driver called 999 and armed police raced to the scene and Cejas was arrested by a railway level crossing.
The black pistol was found in his bag and it was tested to see if it had a lethal capacity.
At Truro Crown Court Cejas, 25, of Carbis Bay, admitted possessing a firearm and ammunition as well as drug dealing on the day in November last year.
Judge Simon Carr said Cejas was street dealing class A drugs and had a firearm capable of causing death or serious injury which he cocked at the man in the street.
He said Cejas found the gun and kept it for his own defence when dealing drugs but did not realise the lethal potential of the weapon.
He jailed him for five years for the gun charge, with three and a half years for drug dealing and 18 months for possessing the ammunition, the sentences to run concurrently.
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