Drug dealers jailed after posting photo of cash captioned ‘money talks baby’
A gang of blundering drug dealers has been jailed after they shared photos of cash below the words ‘money talks baby’ onꦏ social media.
Junaid Khan, 24, Musa Khan,19, Trevor Smith, 23, Asim Rafiq, 27, and Keeley Glover, 33, were this ♍week collectively sentenced to over 20 years in prison.
Police investigated the organized crime gang (OCG) which supplied Class A drugs – including cannabis, cocaine and heroin – across Northern England as part of Operation Warrior.
And in October last year, they raided Junai🤡d Khan’s property in Burnley, Lancs., where they uncovered drugs along with telephones and cash.
Detectives later managed to access the mobile phones they had recovered, which🔜 revealed evidence of drug dealing on a large scale across Burnley and Bradford.
And pictures taken by the group inside the property also showed them handling drugs on a glass table – and showing off just how much cash they had made.
Police also secured evidence that one of t༒he group had started dealing cannabis when he was just 14.
The gan🃏g were sentenced at Preston Crown Court this week.
Junaid Khan, d💝escribed as the gang’s ‘kingpin’, was given eight years and nine months in jail for conspir🌱acy to supply cannabis and being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
He had already been serving a priඣson sentence for other drug offences.
A♑sim Rafiq was handed seven years in jail for conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine.
Trevor Smith was handed three years and nine months in prison for 🔥offering to supply and being concerned in the supply of heroin.
Mu🌼sa Khan received one year and six months in jail for conspiracy to supply heroin and crac♚k cocaine.
And Keel♉ey Glover was given a comꦜmunity order for conspiracy to supply cannabis.
A 16-year-old, who can’t be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced at a later date for conspiracy to supply cocaine an🌃d cannabis.
Detective Sergent Stu Peall, of Lancashire Police’s East Exploitation team, encouraged anyone who kne🍌w of drug dealing in their comm꧟unity to come forward.
He said: : “We will continue to crack down on those invoꦛlved in drug supply in our communities and who prey 🐲on the vulnerable for their own greed.
“I hope that seeing these sentences encourages people to continue to report suspicious activity, either directly to the police or anonymously to Crimestoppers.”
