The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
A gang who supplied cocaine and heroin across Birmingham and into Worcester have been jailed for a total of almost 50 years after police busted their County Lines drugs network. The eight men pushed at least 5kg of Class A drugs onto the city’s streets over a 12-month period between August 2019 and July 2020.
West Midlands Police have charged five men believed to be involved in running a major drugs supply chain in Birmingham. The arrests came on Thursday during a day of action (3 December) that saw dozens of officers raid 10 different properties in the city.
A jealous husband who stabbed his wife to death in a drug-fuelled rage been convicted of her murder. As their marriage crumbled, Tamer Moustafa wrongly accused his wife Nelly of having affairs with their next door neighbour and even his own father, say police.
A woman who set up a bogus charity purporting to help asylum seekers was secretly smuggling undocumented migrants into the UK and exploiting their labour to enrich herself. Turning a blind eye as scores of migrants worked in cannabis farms to pay for her ‘charitable’ services, Pranvera Smith established ‘Freedom to Stay’ in 2014 and ran the Birmingham-based group…
Police seized a loaded revolver and crack cocaine “valued in excess of £10,000” during a raid on Tuesday morning as officers ramp up the pressure on crime gangs across Birmingham. Officers forced entry at a property in Handsworth just after 6am and arrested two teenage brothers following intelligence linking the house to drug dealing and…
A group of Brummies from Small Heath have formed a volunteer group to cleanup dangerous drugs waste from streets and parks across the Midlands region to motivate communities and to make families feel safer when visiting parks. A group called the Waste Warriors have been conducting cleanup operations in Birmingham and the Black Country and removing…
Police have brought down a complex county lines drug supply chain after discovering a London man funnelled heroin and crack cocaine into Hereford via Birmingham. Bodrul Islam, from Newham in east London, ran the ‘Dee Line’ which dealt around £200,000 worth of Class A drugs a year onto the streets of the county town.