UK: Violent Non-White Leader of Drugs Gang Jailed, Along With 11 Others

Birmingham Mail
February 10, 2014

Qamar ‘Doc’ Zaman, Calville Wiggins and Abdul Rashid jailed after drugs gang smashed
Qamar ‘Doc’ Zaman, Calville Wiggins and Abdul Rashid have been jailed and there drugs gang has been smashed.

Three Birmingham men including two described by police as “wholesale drug dealers” have been jailed for a combined total of more than 18 years after a gang was smashed

Eleven people were jailed in total for more than 53 years for being part of the gang who dealt drugs since 2007 and whose ringleader used threats of violence and intimidation to run the operation from prison.

The sentences end a year-long investigation by West Mercia Police’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit into the widespread dealing of crack cocaine and heroin.

The latest group to be convicted was led by 29-year-old Craig Wright, who was released on licence in 2011 for a five-year prison sentence for possessing a shotgun with ammunition from 2009.

Wright was released and his drug dealing activity escalated and was returned to prison shortly after release for intentionally ramming a police car. Wright was sentenced to eight years and eight months at Birmingham Crown Court.

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Eleven Blacks, Non-Whites and Wiggers were jailed in total for more than 53 years.

Qamar ‘Doc’ Zaman, aged 45, of Shirley Road, Hall Green, was jailed for eight years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin.

Calville Wiggins, aged 57, of Headingly Road, Birmingham, was also jailed for six years for pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply crack cocaine as well as possession of counterfeit currency with intent. Both Zaman and Wiggins were described in court as a ‘wholesale drug dealer’ who sold large quantities of drugs to Wright.

And Abdul Rashid, aged 33, of Kitsland Road, Birmingham, was jailed for four years and four months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin. He worked as a drug runner and front man for Qamar.

Detective Sergeant Tony Garner from Socu said: “Craig Wright cultivated a reputation for violence and intimidation and used this to facilitate and control his drug dealing.

“His intimidation meant witnesses were too fearful to give evidence against him and it therefore needed a complex and lengthy covert investigation.

“We have now put an end to this activity and disrupted a very significant organised crime group who were supplying a large amount of the Class A drugs circulating in Worcestershire.”