Black Country news and blogs Wednesday 20 November 2013
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Crane driver caught with kilo of cocaine in car
Birmingham Mail 24 Aug 13
Tahir Karaj, 35, of Lodge Crescent, had previously admitted possessing the drug with intent to supply.
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Man in court over biggest drug bust in Manchester Airport’s history
Birmingham Mail 22 Aug 13
Birmingham suspect accused of trying to smuggle £1.6m of heroin into UK…
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Drug smuggler jailed after £500k heroin bust at Birmingham Airport
Birmingham Mail 20 Aug 13
The 8.33 kilo-haul was detected by a sniffer dog as Nasir Sabir-Malik collected a suitcase after arriving on a
flight from Dubai…
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Crack cocaine drug lab found
Signal 107 7 Aug 13
I was found at a house in Wolverhampton An investigation is underway in Wolverhampton after a suspected drugs laboratory was found by the fire service last night.
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Fine for cocaine possession
Tyburn Mail 7 Aug 13
A Castle Vale man has been fined after pleading guilty to being in possession of cocaine.
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Fire crews find ‘crack cocaine lab’
BBC News 7 Aug 13
Fire crews called to reports of a smell of gas discover what police believe to be a suspected crack cocaine laboratory in Wolverhampton.
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Bricklayer tells police he’s got £200k of cocaine in his van – after being pulled over for not displaying L plates
Birmingham Mail Opinion 5 Aug 13
Sheldon brickie Jack Nash jailed for five years after telling officers: “It’s in the bag…
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Drug dealer jailed after £50,000 cocaine haul
Birmingham Mail 2 Aug 13
Jack Nash, 23, of Ragdene Road, Sheldon, was sentenced to five years in jail at Birmingham Crown Court…
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Drug dealer jailed following £50,000 cocaine haul
WM Police Birmingham East 2 Aug 13
A DRUG dealer has this week been sentenced after he was caught with a ?pound;50,000 haul of cocaine in his van.
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Illegal drug use declines across West Midlands
Birmingham Mail 30 Jul 13
But just one in 80 people in the region reported taking a class A drug such as cocaine or ecstasy – the lowest proportion in any region of the country…
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Halesowen cocaine pushing pensioner expecting spell in the clink
Halesowen News 25 Jul 13
A HALESOWEN cocaine pushing pensioner has been told to expect time in the clink.
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Handsworth mum sparks cocaine smuggling alert shipping washing powder to Jamaica
Birmingham Mail 25 Jul 13
Furious Sharon Jaddoo spent months packing 80 kilos drums with items worth £440 for her partially-sighted aunt in Kingston…
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Seven years for Erdington dealer caught with £30k of drugs: he even tried to cheat his clients
Tyburn Mail 24 Jul 13
John Lane An Erdington cocaine dealer has been jailed for seven years after a jury at Birmingham Crown Court found him guilty of possessing drugs with intent to supply and cultivating cannabis.
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Hidden key leads police to drug dealer’s den – he’s jailed for seven years
WM Police Birmingham North 24 Jul 13
A COCAINE dealer has been jailed for seven years after alert police officers spotted him in the car-park of a storage facility ” and…
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Drug dealers who rammed police vehicle in Dudley jailed
Express & Star 10 Jul 13
Two drug dealers who were found with more than 250 wraps of cocaine and heroin worth nearly £6,000 when they rammed a police car after being snared in a sting operation have been jailed for a more than seven years.
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Probe on tragic Wolverhampton boy Daniel Jones parents’ drugs claims
Express & Star 4 Jul 13
Claims that social workers knew the parents of a 23-month-old boy who died of a heroin overdose were taking drugs were today being investigated, as the pair both started prison terms over his death.
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The squalid drug den where toddler Daniel Jones died
Birmingham Mail 3 Jul 13
Wolverhampton boy killed by heroin in house containing cannabis farm and drug paraphernalia…
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Parents jailed over toddler’s heroin death
Guardian 3 Jul 13
Simon Jones and Emma Bradburn given total of 10 years in prison after 23-month-old son Daniel died from ingesting drug A father has been jailed for killing his young son after negligently allowing him to ingest heroin in the family home.
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Harrowing pictures reveal how shameless drug addict parents grew cannabis near cot of their son who died of heroin overdose as judge jails them
Daily Mail 3 Jul 13
Simon Jones, 30, and 34-year-old Emma Bradburn were sentenced to six years and four years over the death of Daniel Jones (pictured) at the family’s home in Wolverhampton.
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Heroin death boy’s parents jailed
BBC News 3 Jul 13
The parents of Wolverhampton toddler Daniel Jones, who died from a heroin overdose, are jailed.
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Parents jailed over toddler’s heroin overdose death
Birmingham Mail 3 Jul 13
23-month-old Daniel Jones collapsed and died in family’s Wolverhampton home…
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Wolverhampton Parents Jailed For Baby Death
Free Radio 3 Jul 13
Daniel Jones was found collapsed at the house he shared with his parents on Windsor Avenue, Wolverhampton on 29 May last year.
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Wolverhampton parents jailed after heroin death of tragic Daniel Jones
Express & Star 3 Jul 13
A father who killed his 23-month-old son with heroin was this afternoon jailed for six years – as the mother got four years for letting it happen.
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Couple to be sentenced over baby heroin overdose
Birmingham Mail 3 Jul 13
Emma Bradburn and Simon Jones pleaded guilty last month to causing the death of Daniel Jones at their home in the city’s Penn area…
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Toddler Heroin Death Sentencing
Free Radio 3 Jul 13
Daniel Jones died at his home in Penn in May last year.
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Two in court for toddler heroin overdose
Signal 107 3 Jul 13
They’re both being sentenced Two people are being sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court later over the death of their 23-month old son.
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Cocaine possession and stealing chocolate among cases heard by Coventry magistrates
Coventry Telegraph 27 Jun 13
Round-up of cases that came before Coventry Magistrates Court on June 5-6…
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Birmingham man charged after heroin found in chapati-making machine
Birmingham Mail 19 Jun 13
The 35 kilos of heroin is believed to be the largest Class A drug haul uncovered at Manchester Airport…
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Police raids £70k worth of street drugs
Birmingham Mail 14 Jun 13
Police have seized drugs, including cannabis and cocaine, with a street value of £70,000 during a series of raids in the Cannock area.
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Net closes on criminals as 10 more rounded-up
WM Police Sandwell 13 Jun 13
TEN SUSPECTED drug dealers have been rounded up by police in a blitz on crime.
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Net closes on criminals as 10 more rounded-up
WM Police Birmingham South 13 Jun 13
TEN SUSPECTED drug dealers have been rounded up by police in a blitz on crime.
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Drugs worth £70,000 are seized by police in Staffordshire raids
Express & Star 13 Jun 13
Twenty arrests have been made by police and £70,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis seized after raids on suspected drug dealers across Staffordshire.
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‘Operation Nemesis’ sees 20 arrests in Cannock Chase
Connect Cannock 12 Jun 13
Officers from Cannock Chase Local Policing Team (LPT) have made numerous arrests and taken large amounts of drugs off the streets in Operation Nemesis – the force’s ongoing crackdown on drug dealers.
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Dad admits manslaughter after toddler ate heroin
Birmingham Mail 11 Jun 13
A dad has admitted killing his one-year-old son after the toddler died from a heroin overdose.
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Inquiry on Wolverhampton boy’s death from heroin
Express & Star 11 Jun 13
Council chiefs were today investigating how a 23-month old boy died of a heroin overdose at the hands of his parents.
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Father admits manslaughter over toddler’s heroin overdose
Guardian 10 Jun 13
Serious case review under way into death of 23-month-old Daniel Jones in Wolverhampton A man has admitted killing his 23-month-old son who died of a heroin overdose.
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Drug addicted father of 23-month-old boy who died from heroin overdose admits causing toddler’s death
Daily Mail 10 Jun 13
Daniel Jones died away after swallowing a whole wrap of the Class A drug at the Wolverhampton home of parents Emma Bradburn, 34, and Simon Jones, 30 (pictured together).
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Dad admits heroin death of son
Signal 107 10 Jun 13
The parents
of a 23-month-old boy have today admitted causing the child’s death after he
suffered a drugs overdose at his Wolverhampton home.
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Toddler’s parents admit causing heroin overdose death
WM Police Wolverhampton 10 Jun 13
THE PARENTS of a 23-month-old boy have today admitted causing the child?rsquo;s death after he suffered a drugs overdose at his…
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Dad Admits Toddler Manslaughter
Free Radio 10 Jun 13
29 year old Simon Jones from Wolverhampton pleaded guilty to the charge at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
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Psychology | We all want to be happy
Mike Maynard 10 Jun 13
We all want to be happy, but what is happiness? Many people have made lots of money in their search for happiness and still aren’t happy.
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Wolverhampton father admits heroin overdose manslaughter of boy
Express & Star 10 Jun 13
A father today admitted killing his 23-month old son who died after a heroin overdose.
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Horrifying details of tragic Wolverhampton boy’s heroin death revealed
Express & Star 10 Jun 13
Horrifying details of the death of tragic toddler Daniel Jones can be revealed today after his father admitted killing the child at their Wolverhampton home.
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Cocaine smuggler jailed for 6 years
Signal 107 3 Jun 13
He’d hidden the drugs inside patties A Wolverhampton man who
attempted to smuggle 160,000 of cocaine hidden inside patties through
Birmingham Airport has been jailed for six years.
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Wolverhampton drug smuggler who hid cocaine inside patties is jailed
Express & Star 1 Jun 13
A bungling Wolverhampton drug smuggler who tried to sneak £160,000 of cocaine through Birmingham Airport was today starting a six-year jail term – after he concealed the drug inside meat patties.
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Man jailed over botched bid to smuggle £160k of cocaine in meat patties
Birmingham Mail 31 May 13
Dane Hamilton claimed he only expected to find chicken and beef inside the snacks…
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Cocaine found in meat patties at Birmingham Airport
Birmingham Mail 31 May 13
But the man alleged to have smuggled the drugs in from Jamaica told a court the only thing he expected the officers to discover was chicken and beef.
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Birmingham drugs baron Leo Morgan wanted by Russia
Birmingham Mail 31 May 13
Underworld figure close to end of a ten-year sentence in a central American jail over huge cocaine smuggling plot…
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Heroin addict hid Champagne under crisps
Tamworth Herald 31 May 13
A THIEF with expensive tastes was caught out after snatching five bottles of Champagne from a supermarket.
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MP calls for more European controls over ‘legal highs’
Birmingham Mail 30 May 13
While the use of cannabis and cocaine
has fallen in the UK, modern science has allowed the creation of new drugs to replace them…