Known dealers caught on Leeds street hit with combined total of 10 years' jail
The pair have been caught previously
A pair of dealers caught in the same car were both found to be peddling heroin and crack cocaine.
Mohammed Ismail and Sheraz Khan both have previous convictions for selling drugs, Leeds Crown Court heard.
They have now been jailed for a combined total of more than 10 years.
Prosecutor Charles Creasey said calls were made to police about suspicious cars on Rosemont Walk in Bramley on April 28, with suggestions drug dealers were working.
Officers arrived and found the two Vauxhall vehicles. Inside they found hundreds of wraps of Class A drugs.
Nearby they spotted two males in a Seat Ibiza - Ismail and Khan - who tried to drive off but were stopped by police.
The keys to both the Vauxhalls were found in the Seat, along with mobile phones containing clear messages about drug dealing.
Over £4,000 worth of drugs were eventually located.
Ismail, 26, of no fixed address has four previous convictions for eight offences, including dealing drugs in Carlisle in 2018 and offences from Hull in 2023.
Khan, 45, also of no fixed address, has three previous convictions for four offences, including dealing in heroin and crack cocaine.
Both appeared in court over a video link from HMP Leeds where they were being held on remand.
Mitigating for Khan, Michael Walsh said he had a wife and children, adding: “He wants to demonstrate he won’t make such poor decisions.
“He was in the throes of a drug problem, he owed money to other dealers and felt he had no other option.”
For Ismail, Leila Taleb said he came from Birmingham where drugs were “commonplace”. She added: “He knows there is an inevitable custodial sentence on the horizon.”
The judge, Recorder Dapinder Singh KC, jailed Ismail for five years and seven months, and Khan for four years and six months.