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Police have seized around £1 million worth of drugs, over £20K of cash and weapons and arrested over 100 people suspected of running illegal narcotics supply chains – all within a one week period. Last week (7-13 March), West Midlands Police took part in a national operation targeting County Lines that run heroin, cocaine and…
Birmingham’s supermarkets have been left mostly bare as customer panic buying continues due to the coronavirus threat. In what has been unprecedented during peacetime and outside of the annual Christmas chaos, shops are not only rationing items they still have in stock, but also completely selling out of others – with dry foods and toiletries being on the top of…
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.