Dealer found asleep after car crash jailed again

Mehtab was found hiding and asleep following a pursuit with police in 2022

A man who was found asleep in a front garden after drugs were found in the car that he crashed has been given a further jail sentence.

Mohammed Mehtab, 21, hit another vehicle in Peterborough during July 2022 and fled the scene.

Officers later found more than 210 wraps of crack cocaine and 40 wraps of heroin, about £540 in cash, and a debit card.

Mehtab was given a 12-month jail sentence on top of a four-and-a-half-year sentence he was already serving at HMP Leeds.

Passengers in a family car were injured when Mehtab's vehicle hit them, before he drove off

He had been driving on Garton End Road, in Dogsthorpe, when he noticed a squad car behind him, Cambridgeshire Police said.

Mehtab moved on to the wrong side of the road and collided with a car that had a family inside, which in turn then hit a police car.

Passengers and police officers received minor injuries.

Mehtab continued behind the wheel but stopped on Elmfield Road when his car became undrivable due to damage.

He ran off but was found asleep in the front garden of a nearby house.

'Recklessly'

As well as finding the drugs in the car, wraps of crack cocaine and heroin were found at the roadside near to the collision site.

At Cambridge Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.

Mehtab had the 12 months added to the longer jail term handed down at Bradford Crown Court last year for similar drugs offences.

The previous sentence included the driving offences from this case.

Det Con Rhian Batterham Jones said: "Mehtab tried to deal drugs in Peterborough but fortunately we managed to get him off the streets and help to put him behind bars.

"He drove recklessly and put an innocent family and one of my colleagues at risk."

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Cambridgeshire Constabulary