The dealers, Aqib Hussain, Mohammed Miah, Izrar Hussain and Omar Faroq were caught after a police operation that involved raids on properties in Walsall.<\/p>\n
They dealt in a network which had brought a lot of desolation to the streets in the region.<\/p>\n
The four confessed conspiracy to supply drugs at Wolverhampton Crown Court.<\/p>\n
Aqib Hussain and Miah were arrested at an address in Ampleforth Drive, Willenhall, on October 22 2015.<\/p>\n
Hussain had heroin worth \u00a31,400 in cling film wraps, however drugs that had a value of more than \u00a330,000, along with \u00a35,000 in cash, were recuperated from the property.<\/p>\n
An investigation displayed Hussain and Miah were visiting their storage \u2018safe house\u2019 regularly to load up on drugs to deal.<\/p>\n
Police said Faroq took out a lease for the flat in his name and an additional address in Fellows Park Garden, Pleck.<\/p>\n
Officers recovered cocaine and heroin worth \u00a362,000 previously, along with \u00a312,000 in cash from the Pleck property in January 2014, which led to a five-year jail term for a different man.<\/p>\n
A search of Faroq\u2019s home in Foster Street found more than \u00a3200,000 of heroin in the rear garage.<\/p>\n
Izrar Hussain was arrested after evidence was found that linked him to the 2014 offence, which included his fingerprints on items that were recovered in Fellows Park Gardens. After a thorough analysis of all four men\u2019s mobile phones proved their association.<\/p>\n
They all pleaded guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and were put behind bars for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n
Aqib Hussain, aged 23, of Southbourne Avenue in Walsall, was jailed for three years and seven months and 25-year-old Miah, of Wednesbury Road in Caldmore, was handed a five year and two months sentence.<\/p>\n
Izrar Hussain, 32, of West Avenue in Handsworth , was put behind bars for two years and Faroq, 28, was locked up for nine-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n
Detective Constable Tom Frenchum, from the Force Priorities Team, said: \u201cDrugs cause untold misery and wreck lives. Diligent work by Walsall Police\u2019s neighbourhood and offender management teams, together with Force CID, enabled us to rumble this operation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no place for cocaine and heroin on their streets and these sentences should act as a stern warning; if you deal in drugs you will be caught and face time behind bars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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