A GRINNING city drug dealer arrested at a city petrol station has been jailed for selling crack cocaine and heroin as a senior detective called it 'a dirty business'.
Hazrat Usman was one of three people arrested at the Commandery Service Station in Bath Road in Worcester earlier this year after a member of the public called in suspicious activity.
The 21-year-old of Rose Avenue, Tolladine, Worcester, who was pictured grinning in his police custody photo, was jailed for 28 months at Worcester Crown Court on May 3 for being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin.
There was no further action taken against the other two men arrested following an investigation.
Detectives based at Worcester Police Station in Castle Street said the arrest and conviction showed the importance of intelligence from the public in acting quickly to apprehend drug dealers.
It was Usman's second conviction for drug dealing. The drugs line was known as the 'H' line.
DC Josh Hunt said: "Our stance against drug dealers, whether from out of town or local to Worcester, is robust. We have and will continue to put drug dealers out of business."
DI Dave Knight of Proactive CID said: "I'm all too aware how films and TV series can over glamorise the business of drug dealing. The reality is very different.
"Drug dealers will arrange for their low level dealers to be robbed of their commodity so they are indebted to the gang. There is also an expectation that if caught by police every body orifice is used to conceal drugs.
"We often have suspected dealers in custody for days, waiting for them to produce packages of drugs. It's a dirty business, and sad that in fact if some of these illegal entrepreneurs turned their hands to legitimate business they would probably be quite successful.
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"Instead they choose the path that almost always leads to prison, or worse. Dealers have to be lucky every time they ply their trade, we only have to be lucky once, and their freedom is removed for years."
We previously reported how three men were arrested on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs after a car was stopped at Bath Road petrol station on Tuesday, March 26.
A spokesperson for West Mercia Police said at the time: "A vehicle was stopped by officers in the petrol station on Bath Road in Worcester on Tuesday morning.
"Three men were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs."
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