The drug lord, from The Broadway in Aston, recruited drug runners to help deliver crack cocaine and heroin from Birmingham to Hereford in what was known as the ‘P Line’ network.
Police revealed drugs valued at around £150,000 were supplied by Rashid’s drug hotline between July 2017 and February this year.
Kamran Rashid was intercepted at Grandstand Road, Hereford, in August where he was arrested.
No drugs were found in the car but £1,500 in cash and a phone used to run the P Line, which was contacting around 50 customers a day – was seized. He was bailed to give detectives time to gather more evidence.
When he was released, just eight hours after he sent message to clients "Brand new phone, old number gone, pls don’t text it police have it".
In a desperate bid to distance himself from the supply chain, he recruited a couple from Nelson Road, Aston, to carry out the cross-border drug runs for him.
He continued to control the main dealer phone, directing Talat Mahmood, 40, and Lisa Fayers, 41, to the addresses of Class A clients.
The pair were found in possession of £1,300 in cash and a phone which was in repeated contact with Rashid’s Aston-based supply hotline.
Rashid was sentenced to an 11-and-a-half year jail term.
Drug runners Mahmood and Fayers were also sentenced for their roles in the drugs gang.
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