Leicester drug gang which hid heroin worth £150,000 in cereal box is named and shamed by police
Leicester ringleader caught in the act trying to throwing cocaine out a window, police say
A Leicester drug gang has been jailed after large amounts of heroin was found stashed in a cereal box
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Drugs gang jailed over smuggling heroin in cereal boxes across Birmingham
The East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) carried out an undercover operation into drug dealing across Birmingham, Leicester and Peterborough
15:42, 28 APR 2021
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A drugs gang have been jailed for more than 50 years after they were caught smuggling heroin â in CEREAL boxes.
The East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) carried out an undercover operation into drug dealing across Birmingham, Leicester and Peterborough.
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image captionPolice intercepted an exchange of the drugs in a cereal box in Birmingham in 2019
Four members of a drugs gang who hid more than £150,000 worth of heroin in a cereal box have been jailed.
The men, from Leicester and Birmingham, were caught in July 2019 after police intercepted a delivery of 3kg (6lb) of the Class A drug.
Leicestershire Police said catching the group had stopped more than 10 kilos of Class A drugs from hitting [the] streets .
They were sentenced at Leicester Crown Court earlier this month. Caught in the act
East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU), who carried out the investigations, said Eashan Chowdhury was the ringleader who arranged for his workers to collect wholesale amounts of heroin.
Police using photos to ID county lines drug dealers coming off trains in Market Harborough A lot of the people that are coming into Harborough with drugs come in on the train
Police officers at Market Harborough train station (Image: Harborough Police)
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