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A drug dealer who crashed into a police car and a car containing a family in a desperate bid to avoid arrest has been jailed.
Mohammed Mehtab, 21, was driving a black Volkswagen Tiguan along Garton End Road, in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, at about 1.20am on Sunday, 24 July, 2022, when he realised the police car was behind him.
He moved onto the wrong side of the road and collided with a black Volkswagen Touran, which then collided with the police car.
Pictured: Mohammed Mehtab, 21.
Mehtab continued but stopped in Elmfield Road after his car became undrivable due to collision damage. Mehtab ran off but was found asleep in the front garden of a nearby house.
Several passengers in the Touran suffered minor injuries, as did the police officer.
Officers searched Mehtab’s car and found more than 210 wraps of crack cocaine, more than 40 wraps of heroin, about £540 of cash and a debit card.
A further stash of wraps of crack cocaine and heroin were found at the roadside, near to the collision site.
On Monday (11 March), at Cambridge Crown Court, Mehtab, of HMP Leeds, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, having pleaded guilty to two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
This sentence will be added to a four-and-a-half-year term Mehtab received at Bradford Crown Court in October last year for similar drugs offences as well as the driving offences from this case.
DC 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.”