West Midlands Police have today arrested a woman on suspicion of involvement in a county lines drugs chain from Birmingham to Hereford.
The 32-year-old woman was arrested by police in Shropshire on suspicion of possessing drugs with intent to supply.
The news comes just days after police arrested a number of men from Herefordshire for similar offences. Article below:
Four men have been charged with drugs related offences after a series of warrants were carried out in Leominster and Kington, Herefordshire.
Five warrants were executed last week and five people were arrested. Of the five people arrested, the men named below were charged with the listed offences and then remanded into police custody.
Keith Hill – aged 46 of Ridgemoor Road, Leominster was charged with:
- Conspiring to supply a class A controlled drug – crack cocaine
- Conspiring to supply a class A controlled drug – heroin
- Possessing a weapon for the discharge of a noxious liquid / gas / electrical incapacitation device / thing
- Possessing with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A – cocaine
- Acquiring / use / possess criminal property
- Possession with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A – heroin
- Possession with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A – crack cocaine
Lewis Plant – aged 22 of West Street, Leominster was charged with:
- Conspiring to supply a class A controlled drug – crack cocaine
- Possession with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A – crack cocaine
- Possession a controlled drug of Class B – cannabis / cannabis resin
- Conspiring to supply a class A controlled drug – heroin
Timothy Stanley – aged 36 of Coningsby Road, Leominster was charged with:
- Conspiring to supply a class A controlled drug – crack cocaine
- Conspiring to supply a class A controlled drug – heroin
- Possession with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A – crack cocaine
- Possession with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A – heroin
Bradley Reader – aged 19 of Tan y Bryn, Valley, Holyhead, Gwynedd, was charged with:
- Possession with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A – heroin
- Acquiring / use / possess criminal property
- Conspiring to supply a class A controlled drug – crack cocaine
- Conspiring to supply a class A controlled drug – heroin
- Possession with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A – crack cocaine
All four men were due to appear in court today (Monday 15 March).
A fifth man, aged 43 of Presteigne, was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs and was released under investigation.
