A “commercial” street drug dealer has been locked up for 12 months after police officers tackled him to the ground and hit him in the ribs to make him spit out 14 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine.

Waheed Khalil ran off when challenged by drugs squad officers at Mornington Villas, Manningham, Bradford, on October 22, 2009, a court heard yesterday.

Prosecutor Alisha Kaye said the police had to strike Khalil in the shoulder and ribs to force him to empty his mouth of the drugs.

The stash consisted of eight wraps of heroin, five of crack cocaine and one that was a mix of both Class A drugs.

He also had £52 cash on him and a number of mobile phones.

Miss Kaye said Khalil, 22, of Selbourne Terrace, Shipley, made no comment in his police interview. He jumped bail and was re-arrested at his flat on March 18 last year. Officers seized £2,370 and four phones from the property.

Khalil pleaded guilty to possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply and possessing the cash as criminal property.

Khalil’s barrister, Yunus Valli, said his client had no previous convictions for drugs offences.

He was 20 when he was first arrested in 2009 and dealing to fund his own drugs habit. Khalil, a voluntary worker who cared for his poorly mother, had now freed himself from drugs and was being supported by the Drug Intervention Programme.

“This defendant does not want to live a life using and abusing drugs,” Mr Valli said. “He has learned a very important lesson because of this.”

But Judge Rodney Grant told Khalil: “You were supplying drugs on a commercial basis.”

The judge made a confiscation ordering stating Khalil’s benefit from criminality was £2,544, including the value of the drugs seized.

The available amount to be forfeit was the £2,370 he was caught with on arrest.

Mr Valli said the money was already in the hands of the police.