A county lines organised crime gang peddling Class A drugs into Shropshire have been handed jail sentences of a combined 46 years.
The men were involved in supplying the"Harry" line, which delivered"high purity" cocaine as well as heroin to the county from Berkshire and Buckinghamshire between 2016 and 2019.
Mohammed Ramzan's fellow drugs ringleader, Umair Mehdi, who was not part of this sentencing, is also at large and understood to be in Pakistan. Burner phones were seized, including one which had more than 20,000 calls and messages recorded on it. Prosecutor Harpreet Sandhu told the court that if each interaction resulted in a £10 street deal, 2.058kg of Class A drugs would have been sold for £205,820.
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