Police name four Birmingham County Lines drug dealers convicted of cocaine & heroin offences

Drug dealers are behind bars after West Midlands Police shut down an illegal Class A supply line running between Birmingham and Warwickshire.

WMP County Lines Taskforce acted on information and brought down the drugs ring dealing crack cocaine and heroin.

Officers executed warrants at addresses in Birmingham which they believed were linked to the line in January 2021, seizing more than 5 kilos of drugs. As part of their enquiries officers established that Mohammed Akub and Sajid Mahmood were at the heart of the drugs line. They were primarily responsible for a phone link which co-ordinated deals with customers travelling from Warwickshire to Birmingham to collect drugs. 

Police further found Yousef Mahmood and Nomaan Shahid acted as runners and collected money. They were convicted for their role in the drugs network between April 2000 and January 2021 and sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday 9 February.

• Sajid Mahmood, aged 51 from Small Heath, was jailed for nine-and-a-half years for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs
• Mohammed Akub, aged 29 from Small Heath, was jailed for nine-and-a-half years for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs
• Nomaan Shahid, aged 29 from Small Heath, was jailed for six years and four months for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs
• Yousef Mahmood, aged 30 from Bordesley Green, received a 20 month suspended sentence for being concerned in the supply of class A.
• A 28-year-old man from Solihull was given 12 month community order for allowing his premises to be used for class A supply.

A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: “Drugs ruin lives and fuel further crime. We remain committed to shutting down drug networks across the region. We run Operation Target in a defiant stand against serious and organised crime offences – from drug dealing and burglary, to cyber-crime and fraud - as part of our ongoing work to catch offenders and keep you safe.”