ANOTHER drug dealer has been locked up following the latest prosecution in West Yorkshire Police’s Operation Saintpond.

Adnan Iqbal sold heroin and crack cocaine to an undercover police officer on five occasions between August 21 and October 12, 2023.

He has now been jailed for a total of 33 months.

Each time the officer would call one of three drugs phone lines, known as Hunter, Diamond, or Frankie, and make an order for drugs.

He would then meet Iqbal, who was either the driver of a car or its passenger, on Drill Street in Keighley where a purchase would take place.

Prosecutor Jennifer Gatland told Bradford Crown Court that the officer called the Hunter line on August 21 and ordered “three B and two light” - a street term for heroin and crack cocaine.

Iqbal drove a black BMW onto Drill Street. Another man was in the passenger seat. Iqbal handed over three wraps of heroin and two of crack cocaine for £50.

The following day the officer called the same line to buy two wraps of heroin and one wrap of crack cocaine, paying £30. The same black BMW pulled up with Iqbal in the passenger seat.

On August 24 his call to the Hunter line rang out but he received a text from the Diamond line. He made a deal for one wrap of crack and two of heroin, paying £30.

On September 14 he ordered “one of each” from the Diamond line and met Iqbal, who was driving in a light-coloured SUV, to pay £30.

On October 12 he called the Frankie line and met Iqbal, who was driving a grey Mercedes, to pay him £40 for one wrap of heroin and another of crack.

Iqbal, 28, of Cark Street, Keighley, was arrested on May 5 this year as part of Operation Saintpond, which targets the supply of Class A drugs in West and North Yorkshire and answered “no comment” to all questions.

He initially pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of supplying a Class A drug at Bradford Magistrates’ Court but later pleaded guilty at a plea and trial preparation hearing at Crown Court.

The court heard that he was of previous good character.

Mitigating, Samuel Ponniah said there was “an element of naivety” to Iqbal’s offending.

He said: “He is a man who has never troubled these courts before. To use a colloquialism, he has very much gone in at the deep end.”