Mohammad Khan, 42, controlled the drug line and played a managerial role directing Lloyd Merchant, 52, and Mohammed Zariq, 32, who acted as street dealers for the operation, Herts Police said. All three of the Watford residents were jailed, after admitting to being concerned in the supply of cocaine, at St Albans Crown Court this morning (August 7). Mohammad Khan (Image: Herts Police)Khan was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison while Merchant and Zariq were jailed for two years and nine months each. Mohammed Zariq (Image: Herts Police)Cocaine, bladed weapons, and more than £9,000 in cash were also seized in what was described as “the culmination of months of work" targeting the line. Lloyd Merchant (Image: Herts Police)“These sentences will have a significant effect on the drug supply and related crime in Watford.