When Wahid Wahab decided to get into crime, he dipped his toe in the water — then plunged into the deep end.

The Cambridge man was in Kitchener court this week with no prior criminal record.

After pleading guilty to trafficking fentanyl and crystal methamphetamine, he was sent to prison for 11 years.

“Mr. Wahab has entered into the criminal justice system not with a whisper but certainly with a bang,” said Justice Karey Katzsch.

Wahab, 31, was the “directing mind” of a major drug enterprise, court was told.

He and his family came to Canada from Delhi, India, when he was 11. Wahab, a Canadian citizen, worked at a factory and a pizza shop but “fell into the wrong crowd,” said defence lawyer Jordana Goldlist.

His friends convinced him selling drugs was more lucrative, she said. He sold

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