TWO men were last night
facing jail for their part
in the biggest heroin seizure
in a North-East town's history.
Murthaza Arshad, 24, and
Amin Younis, 31, were arrested
after a police raid on
a Middlesbrough house uncovered
drugs worth £2m
and £100,000 in cash.
Judge Peter Armstrong remanded
them in custody at
Teesside Crown Court yesterday,
saying: "You are both
facing a substantial prison
sentence."
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The raid came after a detective
saw a drug deal in the
street.
A police unit followed a
blue Mercedes to an address
which was then raided. Officers
found a couple and two
young children at home. In
the attic, they found a black
suitcase containing £5,040.
A search uncovered a
heroin with a street value of
nearly £2m, the biggest
seizure discovered in Middlesbrough.
Large quantities of cocaine
and crack cocaine
were also discovered, along
with packaging material,
plastic bags, brown paper
and scales.
In a nearby disused shop
in Ayresome Street, officers
found a drugs factory where
there was more packaging,
cutting agents and a blender
coated with heroin.
Peter Makepeace, prosecuting,
said: "You may think
that they had every reason
to believe that they were
about to carry out a routine
drug search and uncover
some low-level street dealer."
Teesside Crown Court
heard that the Mercedes driver,
Raja Arshad, 26, who
lived there, and Shazad
Majid, 29, of Westbourne
Grove, North Ormesby,
pleaded guilty last month to
conspiracy to supply class A
drugs between December 31,
2006, and July 19 last year.
They were remanded in
custody for sentencing.
Murthaza Arshad, of Oxford
Road, and Younis, of
Brafferton Road, Middlesbrough,
were found guilty of
conspiracy to supply.
Mr Makepeace said that
some of the items in Oxford
Road bore Younis's fingerprints.
Murthaza Arshad was arrested
in the attic and told
officers that there was
money in the bedroom.
Mr Makepeace said: "It
was sent for forensic analysis
and was found to have
considerable traces of heroin."
The jury will today continue
their deliberations on
Mohammed Arshad, 50, also
of Oxford Road, Middlesbrough.
Earlier, the Crown offered
no evidence against Murthaza
Arshad's sister, Tabenda
Kayani,25, of Kensington
Road, Middlesbrough.
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