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Two jailed over heroin smuggling
17/ 5/2008
TWO more members of a gang that smuggled heroin stitched into rugs from Afghanistan have been jailed.
Mohsin Khan, 30, of Sharpe Street, Collyhurst, and Jhangheer Younas Ali, 29, of Waterloo Street, Glodwick, Oldham were sentenced to a total of 22 years.
The heroin was contained in thin plastic tubes sewn into rugs.
Ali was given 10 years for drugs offences while Khan, who also pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, was given 12.
Their sentences follow that of Naela Khalid, 27, of Alston Gardens, Burnage, who was jailed for six and a half years in connection with the same offence.
The rugs, sent to Britain in parcels, contained 5.5kg of heroin with a street value of £500,000.
Police were told of their contents by staff at East Midlands Airport and then tracked them to an address in Burnage where the three attempted to open the package. They were later arrested after a high speed pursuit.
The sentences are part of Operation Baton, an ongoing crackdown on drug suppliers in Oldham.
Detective Inspector John Ogdon from GMPs drugs unit said: "Yet again this investigation has shown us the extreme lengths people will go to and the amount of effort they will put into smuggling drugs into this country. Each plastic tube was sewn into each individual weave of the rug and the painstaking process of removing them would have taken one person a number of weeks.
"Once again I am satisfied that we have disrupted a huge drugs operation in Oldham and prevented dangerous drugs from reaching the streets.
"I would like to take this opportunity to re-iterate to the public how vital their help and support is and reassure them that we will work to act on any information they can give us to bring dangerous criminals to justice."
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