Drug dealers operating a pizza delivery style heroin and crack cocaine network have been jailed for almost 100 years.

The 33 dealers were operating in Birmingham when they were arrested following a major operation by West Midlands Police in February.

Officers arranged a series of dawn raids across the north of the city and broke up the major drugs network.

More than 100 officers conducted a series of dawn raids over four days, arresting dozens of suspects. They recovered class A and Class B drugs worth more than £20,000 along with almost £35,000 in cash and a firearm.

A total of 33 drug dealers appeared in Birmingham Crown Court during the week where they were received jail terms ranging from nine years and six months down to a suspended sentence.

The operation targeted street-level dealers as well as those further up the criminal hierarchy.

The court heard that crack cocaine and heroin was delivered door-to-door ‘like a pizza delivery service’.

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A German man has been jailed after being caught trying to smuggle more than £200,000 worth of cocaine in 83 packages in his body.

Charles Ukachukwu Imoh was stopped by police at Dover’s Eastern Docks after telling officials he was visiting family in London having boarded a coach from Frankfurt.

The 57-year-old, who is also has a Nigerian passport, was X-rayed at hospital where 83 packages were found in his body.

Imoh, from Essen, was arrested and pleaded guilty to drug smuggling at Canterbury Crown Court last month.

He was jailed for four years which, under the UK Borders Act 2007, means he will face automatic deportation.

When tested, the drugs had a purity level of 66 per cent, and an estimated street value of more than £215,000.

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A gang of drug dealers who posed for pictures with wads of cash and a large bag stuffed with cannabis have been jailed for a total of four and a half years today.

More than 100 detectives seized large quantities of cash and drugs in a series of dawn raids on 18 North Kensington homes in May, following a bloody turf war.

Mobile phones were also found containing images of the shameless gang members posing with drugs and banknotes.

Scotland Yard detectives uncovered the ring while investigating a spate of violent attacks which had erupted in the area at the end of last year.

Officers realised the violence stemmed from a drugs war over gang territory and launched an undercover operation code-named Operation Capulet.

During the raids police found phones containing incriminating images. In one shot Zakaria Chentouf, 24, is seen perched on a bed showing off a wad several inches thick of £50 notes.

Another image shows Sophian Chhayra, also 24, grinning while holding a transparent plastic bag stuffed with cannabis to his chest.

A final picture of Chhayra shows the him clutching a large amount of £50 notes with both hands in front of his face.

All five defendants pleaded guilty to drugs offences at Isleworth Crown Court in September and were today sentenced to a total of four-and-a-half years in prison for their parts in the organised ring which dealt cannabis on the streets of Ladbroke Grove in West London.

The court heard Fouad Soussi, aged 20, who was born profoundly deaf, was the ‘principal street dealer’ in the operation – exchanging drugs for cash in plain sight from his balcony and nearby streets, Isleworth Crown Court heard.

Defending him Alison Morgan told the judge he had become desperate to make his own money after struggling to find work because of his disability.

He was supplied the drugs by Chentouf, 24, who was described in court as the ‘head of the conspiracy’.

Ahmed Mahomud, 20, and Chhayra, acted as middlemen and runners, Tyrone Silcott, prosecuting, told the court.

All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply drugs last month.

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Dramatic footage has been released by police of a drug dealer’s first attempt to run over a man he then went on to hit with his car and kill.

Jake Austin was jailed for a minimum of 18 years at Maidstone Crown Court after being found guilty of the murder of John O’Donohue last January.

Mr O’Donohue and a friend met 25-year-old Austin, from Gillingham, Kent, and his associate in the evening.

During the meeting an argument broke out and the four got into a fight, according to Kent Police.

Mr O’Donohue, 33, and his friend tried to walk away when Austin got into his green Ford Mondeo and drove after them.

The CCTV footage captured the moment when Austin drove straight at the pair, in Castlemaine Avenue, Gillingham.

The police spokesman said: “(They) managed to evade him by running up a grass verge.

“Austin then turned the car around and drove at them again, this time crashing through metal railings and running over Mr O’Donohue, who suffered fatal head injuries as a result.

“His friend was unharmed and ran to raise the alarm.”

Austin, who called his mother and asked her to report the Mondeo as stolen, went on the run and was arrested four days later in Swindon, Wiltshire.

Detective inspector Ivan Beasley said: “Austin murdered Mr O’Donohue with absolute deliberate actions.

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This is going to be one of those columns which begins: Is it me? A judge has ruled that an American drugs dealer can’t be deported from Britain because he has a ‘human right’ to free medical treatment on the NHS.

Vietnam war veteran Johnny Callie was jailed for seven years in 2007 for conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin to addicts in Ipswich.

We are also told, without any evidence whatsoever, that the gang of which he was the kingpin would ‘almost certainly have supplied drugs to the five prostitutes (sorry, “sex workers”) murdered in Ipswich by Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright’.

As if that’s got anything to do with the price of crack. Regular readers may remember that when these desperate women were killed, the BBC declared an official month of mourning. We were all to blame.

Naturally, having been given seven years, Callie was released after three. Of course he was. Don’t want him becoming ‘institutionalised’, mixing with evil phone-hackers and bent MPs, perish the thought.

Callie suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and ‘degenerative changes to his right knee’. He has now argued successfully that he would not be able to afford medical care in the U.S.

And, apparently, his girlfriend is depressed. Did I mention that?

According to Judge Bernard Dawson (I’ll get on to him in a minute): ‘Due to her depression and anxiety, she is usually dependent upon the claimant and cannot easily leave her home on her own or travel outside Ipswich unless he is with her.

‘She would experience high levels of anxiety were she to leave her home and travel to America with the claimant. She has a history of attempted suicide.’

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Sounds like a case for the Punk Samaritans. Ring them up claiming you’re feeling suicidal and they’ll tell you how to do it.

But this cynical, pathetic sob-story touched the heart of Judge Bernie the Bolthole, who halted the deportation order on the grounds it breached Callie’s right to ‘family life’ under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. What family?

And as for not being able to afford health insurance in the U.S., hasn’t Bernie heard of Obamacare?

Callie’s case was bolstered by a supportive letter from the Norfolk and Suffolk Probation Trust.

There’s a surprise. The Guardianistas who run the probation service would consider Callie a valued ‘client’. The interests of the wider public are never taken into consideration.

Don’t expect the judiciary to stick up for common decency, either. Judges regularly take decisions that spit in the face of those of us with ‘conventional’ values.

In the interests of justice, I checked out Bernie the Bolthole — so that you don’t have to. He’s a dead-ringer for John Major, grey-haired, bespectacled, boring. Looks like a middle-ranking proctologist. Oh, yes.

On closer examination, though, there’s something not quite right about him. He’s pictured on Mail Online wearing a pinstriped suit, with a check shirt and a patterned tie. Not a way for a gentleman to dress, I’m afraid.

Turns out he’s got previous when it comes to yuman rites.

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An American crack dealer has won the right to stay in Britain because he relies on free NHS medical care and has a depressed girlfriend.

Johnny Callie was jailed for seven years in 2007 for conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin following a two-year covert operation by Ipswich police.

Callie was part of a 10-strong gang that flooded the area with drugs from their base in Colchester and was arrested following raids in August 2005.

In January, 2011 Home Secretary Theresa May refused to revoke an order for Callie’s deportation after he appealed the automatic order made following his sentencing in November 2007.

But the decorated Vietnam war veteran, who is suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and ‘degenerative changes to his right knee’ has now argued he would not be able to afford medical care in the US. He also cited the ill health of his long-term girlfriend.

The 64-year-old has been fighting his deportation through the courts since his release from prison in August 2010.

He earlier halted the order on the grounds it breached his right to family life under Article 8 of the European Convention for Human Rights.

Mrs May appealed that decision, but Judge Bernard Dawson ruled that Callie could stay.

He heard that Callie had been living with his British citizen partner, referred to in documents as SN, since June 1995, and that she had ‘no contact with other members of her family and has very few friends’.

A decision by Judge Dawson reads: ‘Due to her depression and anxiety she is usually dependent upon the claimant and cannot easily leave her home on her own or travel outside Ipswich unless he is with her.

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Police say an 18-year-old Clay High School student was killed over a drug deal gone bad.

The St. Joseph County prosecutor’s office has charged another teen, 18-year-old Shane Williams, with the April murder of Nathan Hall.

Police were called to the 1400 block of North Adams Street on April 16 after a ShotSpotter alert was issued. When they arrived, they found Hall suffered from an apparent gunshot wound to the head.

Hall was a student at South Bend’s Clay High School.

Witnesses tell police Williams contacted Hall over Facebook to meet for a marijuana deal, but that Williams and another person allegedly planned to rob Hall at the meeting location.

Police say Williams and this other person met up with Hall at that location, but at the meeting, the other person allegedly shot Hall and Williams took the money and an “eightie” of marijuana.

The investigation remains ongoing. Police are still looking for the person who they think pulled the trigger. They have not released that person’s name.

Williams is currently being held at the St. Joseph County Jail, charged with murder and robbery.

He already has open cases of robbery, auto theft and a burglary, breaking and entering charge filed just hours after the shooting.

Williams is scheduled to make a court appearance on his latest charges Friday afternoon.

A PhD student who studied criminology used her in-depth knowledge of crime to help her boyfriend run a heroin and crack cocaine ring, months before he and his friends murdered a rival, a court has heard.

Rachel Kenehan, 35, of Hewlett Road, London, was in a relationship with one of the men accused of shooting Jahmel Jones in the head in Southampton in 2012.

She met her boyfriend Pierre Lewis through a prison mentoring scheme, Winchester Crown Court heard.

Kenehan, who also has a Masters degree in sociology, was charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs, assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice.

She was said to have used her academic career at London School of Economics to assist Lewis and his friends deal drugs.

Kenehan’s boyfriend, Pierre Lewis, 20, and his friends Jemmikai Orlebar-Forbes, 22 and Isaac Boateng, 22 are accused of the murder of Jahmel Jones,, 23, also known as Lucky, after he was shot in the head in Southampton in 2012.

The jury heard Kenehan had ‘an in-depth knowledge of criminal behavior and the frailty of human nature’ that she had gained from the studies that she used to aid the crimes.

According to prosecutor Ian Lawrie QC she played a ‘robust, direct and calculating role’ in the conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine, spending thousands hiring cars and making trips on the M3 between London and Southampton.

Sometimes she would cover hundreds of miles in a day in her alleged attempts to aid the drug ring that spanned a length of the country.

Other times, one hire car would be dropped off and another one picked up ten minutes later, and these cars were frequently caught by speed cameras.

Every time one of the cars was caught, Kenehan would take the blame, but the pictures showed a black man was behind the wheel.

Kenehan and Lewis met when she was volunteering for a charity that put young men with mentors to stop them from breaking the law, and they soon developed a relationship.

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The leader of a drugs gang who subjected an undercover police officer to a vicious Reservoir Dogs-style attack has been jailed.

Mohamed Hassan, 32, from Brockley, south London, launched the attack on the officer who jumped 12ft out of a first-floor window to escape the gang.

In a scene reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 film, the officer, identified only as Officer Deano, was attacked after a hidden recording device was spotted in his polo shirt during a crack cocaine and heroin deal at a drugs den in Basildon, Essex, in November 2012.

Hassan, the leader of drugs gang ‘The Bush Boys’, was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment at Basildon Crown Court yesterday after he was found guilty of robbery of covert equipment, money laundering and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.

Perry Bohm, 19, from Woolwich, who held the undercover officer during the attack, was sentenced to seven years in jail after he was also found guilty of robbery of covert equipment. He pleaded guilty to supplying Class A drugs at an earlier hearing.

Judge Owen Davies QC told Basildon Crown Court: ‘There was in operation a well-oiled machine which enabled drug users to obtain drugs 24/7, seven days a week, using a mobile telephone number.

‘At one address, within yards of this court, the gang took up residence.

‘The operation culminated in a dramatic incident on November 26, 2012, after the syndicate cottoned-on to the fact members were being arrested and there was suspicion the gang had been infiltrated.

‘Officer Deano found himself in a flat alone when Hassan turned up, confronted him, assaulted him while he was held by two others and robbed him of surveillance equipment.

‘Deano was defenceless and cornered – he made the decision to jump out of the window before Hassan returned with a knife.’

The Bush Boys – who were based in London – set up a sophisticated business operation offering Class A drugs from safe houses and hotel rooms across Basildon, Essex.

A specific drugs hotline was manned 24/7 and advertised to addicts through brazen mobile phone messages bragging about the quality of their heroin and crack cocaine.

Essex Police managed to infiltrate the gang but on November 26, 2012, gang leader Hassan confronted undercover officer Deano during a deal at a barricaded drugs den in Basildon, Essex, and discovered his recording device.

Hassan and Bohm began kicking and punching the officer before Hassan left the room briefly to find a knife, loudly declaring: ‘I’m going to shank the c***.’

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A Jamaican crack dealer has escaped deportation because judges ruled that kicking him out of the country would breach his human rights.

Keno Forbes, 35, commuted into London daily to sell Class A drugs on a housing estate.

He was jailed for three years in 2011 but the government has now been told they cannot boot him out of Britain because it would damage his relationship with his wife and children.

Forbes, 35, travelled from his home in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, into London to peddle drugs on a housing estate in Islington, north London.

The Home Office tried to have Forbes deported as his sentence was longer than 12 months, but his lawyers successfully argued he had a right to a “private and family life” under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

The Government appealed the decision, but Mr Justice McCloskey, the president of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber Upper Tribunal, upheld the earlier ruling.

Mr Justice McCloskey said the lower court had said it was a “borderline case” but the balance “swung narrowly in favour” of Forbes and his family.

A Home Office spokesman said: “We are disappointed by the tribunal’s decision and are now considering our options in this case. We firmly believe foreign nationals who break the law should be deported.”

Ukip leader Nigel Farage said the case showed the ECHR is a “farce”.

He said: “Forbes should have thought about the relationship with his wife and child before he started selling class A drugs in the UK, knowing it is illegal.

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