Birmingham drug dealers jailed for helping to run county lines network across city

A man and a woman have been jailed for their involvement in running a County Lines drugs line around Birmingham.

Mohsin Ali, 28, of Wyndhurst Road, Stechford and Haleema Akhtar, 28, of Hollyfaste Road, Sheldon, were sentenced on February 26 at Birmingham Crown Court.

The West Midlands Police County Lines Taskforce executed search warrants at an address on Wyndhurst Road and Hollyfaste Road on November 2, 2023. County Lines are the phone lines that drug dealers use to sell drugs around the country. 

Whilst carrying out enforcement at the address on Hollyfaste Road, officers found large quantities of crack cocaine and heroin, a significant amount of cash, and mobile phones linked to the Tiger Line.

The Tiger Line would send out bulk messages advertising the availability to drugs users - to be sold across Birmingham.

The two were sentenced on February 26 (Monday), with Ali receiving six years and nine months imprisonment, and Akhtar, was jailed for two years and three months.