Drug dealers used vulnerable addicts to help run operation

THREE men who exploited vulnerable drug addicts to work for them as they peddled Class As have been jailed.

- By SOPHIE CORCORAN

Vile Darren Szucs, 28, Zeeshan Nawaz, 25 and Adeel Hussain, 24, all ran the Dallas drug line and went on to recruit a man and his wife and another woman, taking over their homes and forcing them to work for them.

Nawaz, of Longfield Road in Heckmondwike and Hussain, of Deighton Road, Huddersfield, even turned violent, attacking the man and woman. They both went on to admit two counts of assault and alongside Szucs, of Sunroyd Hill, Wakefield, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine.

Prosecutor Deborah Smithies told Leeds Crown Court on Tuesday the trio carried out their offending between February 2022 and September 2024 and a police investigation followed.

She told the court: “Information came largely from two witnesses.

“They are both class A drug users or have been. On the 16th of September 2024, the woman made a call to the police and said she had had to flee her home address because she had been beaten up and the house had been taken over by the Dallas drugs line.

“The police spoke with her and a man also living there at the time.

“She said in May 2022, at the suggestion of the boyfriend at the time, she began driving for the drugs line with Darren Szucs - who she knew as ‘Phil’ - getting into her car, showing her where to drive and getting out to make deliveries.

“She describes being stopped by police on occasion and said when she did jobs for them she would be given crack cocaine and this feeder of addiction was a form of control.”