Three men have been jailed for running a drug delivery doorstep service to the student areas of Cardiff.
Alimussa Mustafa, 37, Azad Korsheed, 36 and Jutiar Fouad, 38, drove from their homes in Bristol using Sat Navs to find the addresses they wanted.
“It was home delivery like calling for a Pizza to be delivered but in this case calling for cannabis,”, prosecutor Tracey Lloyd-Nesling told Cardiff Crown Court.
“Pages of text messages on phones seized in the defendants’ cars showed they were mostly going to Cathays and Roath - areas with high student populations.”
Cash and drugs seized
South Wales Police stopped the three at night on November 17 last year.
They were all in separate cars and were deviding up the drugs and the money between them, the court heard.
Mustafa had £2,200 cash in his vehicle and Fouad had 15 wraps of cannabis.
They were all generous, slightly overweight deals, used to attract new customers or retain old ones, Ms Lloyd-Nesling reported.
Korsheed’s barrister Karl Williams said he was working full time in a car valeting and washing business in his Kurdish community and was recruited as a driver for the Cardiff run.
'Extremely profitable'
Owen Williams, for Mustafa, who has previously appeared before Bristol magistrates for possessing cannabis and a knife, said he had been in the Kurdish army for two years and still suffered the physical and mental scars of being shot several times.
And barrister David Elias described Fouad as having joined the conspiracy at the “bottom end of the chain” while he was out of work temporarily having been employed previously in the UK for 15 years.
Jailing Korsheed for 12 months and Fouad for 14 months, to reflect how early they had entered guilty pleas to a charge of conspiring to supply cannabis, Judge Daniel Williams told all three; “You were dealing in large amounts to a large number of customers.
“Your supply service was extremely profitable.”
He sentenced Mustafa to 18 months, saying he had denied involvement but been found guilty by a jury following a trial.
See- http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/three-men-jailed-running-drug-10501100
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