Man jailed after exploiting missing Derbyshire teenagers to sell drugs
Hussein Abdulkadir admitted to two offences
23-year-old, Hussein Abdulkadir from Ealing, had been contacting two boys aged 14 and 15 using mobile phones and directing them to deliver drugs and collect money in Derby last year.
The teenagers were arrested in Normanton, after they were found in possession of large amount of cash, Class A drugs, a machete and knuckle duster, by officers making enquiries into reports of a missing boy.
Analysis of their phones linked them to Abdulkadir, and his flat on Lady Margaret Road at Southall was searched by Derbyshire officers, working alongside the Metropolitan Police.
The court heard how Abdulkadir had been running what was known as the ‘Max line’, and selling drugs brought in from London to Derby and Leicester through the boys who were missing from their homes.
At the time of Abdulkadir’s arrest he had been on licence following a conviction in 2020, where he was handed a 45-month jail sentence for a similar county lines related offence in Surrey, and he was recalled to prison.
He was jailed for six years and seven months for the offences in Derby following a hearing at Derby Crown Court on Monday 23 January.