According to police, Haque was behind a Bradford-based drugs line that had been supplying crack cocaine and heroin into the Pudsey area of Leeds for “some significant time”.
Haque’s activities came to light during Operation Phoenix, a police investigation targeting County Lines offending.
Officers raided a property in Nottingham Street, Bradford, and found Haque’s iPhone which had had more than 4,000 messages diverted to it.
Officers seized more than £1,500 in cash and found a stash of heroin and cocaine wraps in a Vauxhall Corsa parked outside.
Prosecutor Vincent Blake-Barnard said Haque’s DNA was found on the packages in the Corsa.
Det Insp Helen Chapman, who leads West Yorkshire Police’s county lines taskforce, said she hoped Haque’s sentence would “serve as a warning to others”.
“The supply of Class A drugs fuels acquisitive crime and violence in our communities and brings misery to the lives of individual users and their families,” she said.
“Operation Phoenix will continue to take a robust proactive approach to disrupting and dismantling county lines drug dealing by targeting the individuals and organised crime groups behind it.”
