Among those put behind bars are a teenage drug addict who attacked a pensioner in Harehills and a convicted drug dealer found with a working pistol and ammunition.
The gallery below features a selection of those to receive hefty sentences for their crimes this past week.
13. A convicted drug dealer was found with a working pistol and live ammunition when police raided a property in Wakefield. Officers burst into a property on St Catherine Street in the Belle Vue area of the city on the morning of October 25 last year and found several men inside, including Waheed Yaseen and Nelson Ndikumana. Heroin and crack cocaine was found and Ndikumana, 27, was strip searched at the police station and found carrying an additional 43 wraps of crack and 16 of heroin in his boxer shorts. The police also searched 46-year-old Yaseen’s home on nearby Wesley Street where they found the 9mm firearm hidden in a shoulder bag concealed between two beds, along with two rounds of live ammunition. Yaseen was jailed for more than 10 years and six months. Ndikumana was jailed for 25 months.
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