A sleepy drug dealer was caught after he dozed off in a garden after trying to evade cops.
Mohammed Mehtab was driving a Volkswagen Tiguan when he spotted a police car was on his tail.
He veered to the other side of the road and ploughed into a VW Touran.
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The SUV – which had a family inside – then collided with the cop car in Garton End Road, the Dogsthorpe area of Peterborough.
They suffered minor injuries as did the police officer.
Dopey Mehtab, 21, dumped his car in Elmfield Road – 100 metres away – because it was too damaged to drive.
But he was then found by police officers asleep in a nearby garden on 24 July, 2022.
They searched his motor and found it full of crack cocaine, heroin and cash and more by the roadside.
Mehtab admitted two counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
He was jailed for a year at Cambridge Crown Court on Monday (11 Mar).
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said: “Mehtab stopped after his car became undrivable due to collision damage.
“He ran off but was found asleep in the front garden of a nearby house.
“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.”
His sentence was 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.
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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