A convicted heroin dealer from Philadelphia who tried to put over 600 bags of heroin on the streets in June of 2014 was sentenced to state prison Tuesday.

Basil Haleem Bey will serve 7 1/2 to 15 years for selling heroin to a confidential informant two separate times — once outside of the T.J. Maxx Plaza and another outside of the Starbucks on Basin Street.

After police arrested Bey, they used his Holiday Inn Express keycard to search his room and found 600 bags of heroin and around $3,000 in cash.

The stash of drugs matched the two bundles he sold to the informant and were found stuffed in the hotel room’s ice box with the cash, police testified during his trial.

Throughout Bey’s two-day trial in February, jurors heard from the confidential informant Bey sold to and four officers involved in the bust.

Screenshots of messages sent were shown in court.

The jury found Bey guilty of delivery of heroin, criminal use of a communication facility and possession, according to court documents.

The Commonwealth was seeking a sentence that was no less than 10 to 20 years.

“He’s already been to state prison for firearms charges,” Assistant District Attorney Nicole M. Ippolito said.

Ippolito also said Bey was on parole from those offenses when he did the drug deals and the sentence justifiably could be much higher than the 10 to 20 years.

The amount of heroin seized in the bust was much more than the area typically sees, she said.

Bey himself asked Judge Richard A. Gray for second chance.

“I take responsibility for my actions,” Bey said.

The assistant DA was having none of it, however.

“If the defendant wanted to take full responsibility for his actions, he wouldn’t have taken it to trial,” Ippolito responded.