A drugs gang has been jailed for more than 20 years after their dealer operation was busted by West Midlands Police.
Officers recovered heroin and cocaine worth £300,000 from properties in Walsall.
A police investigation linked Aqib Hussain, Mohammed Miah, Izrar Hussain and Omar Faroq to the Class A empire.
Clockwise from top left: Omar Faroq, Mohammed Miah, Aquib Hussain, Izrar Hussain
They initially denied any involvement but admitted conspiracy to supply drugs in the face of overwhelming evidence built up by West Midlands Police detectives.
Aqib Hussain and Miah were arrested leaving an address in Ampleforth Drive, Willenhall, on 22 October last year.
Hussain had heroin worth £1,400 in cling film wraps, while drugs worth more than £30,000, along with £5,000 in cash, were recovered from the property.
An investigation showed Hussain and Miah were making daily visits to their storage ‘safe house’ to load up on drugs to deal.
Enquiries showed Faroq had taken out the lease for the flat in his name and another address in Fellows Park Garden, Pleck.
Officers had previously recovered cocaine and heroin worth £62,000, along with £12,000 in cash, from the Pleck property in January 2014 − an investigation that led to a five-year jail term for another man.
And a search of Faroq’s home in Foster Street saw more than £200,000 of heroin found in the rear garage.
Izrar Hussain was arrested after evidence was found linking him to the 2014 offence, including his fingerprint being on items recovered in Fellows Park Gardens. An analysis of mobile phones for all four proved their association.
They all pleaded guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court to conspiracy to supply Class A drugs − and they were put behind bars for more than 20 years.
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, handed a five year and two months sentence.
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.
Detective Constable Tom Frenchum, from the Force Priorities Team, said: “Drugs cause untold misery and wreck lives… diligent work by Walsall Police’s neighbourhood and offender management teams, together with Force CID, enabled us to rumble this operation.
“There 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."
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