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10 people are accused of smuggling drugs into prisons
Police in the West Midlands have arrested 10 people who are suspected of using drones to smuggle drugs into jails across England.
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51 years prison for drug gang supplying class A drugs
A drug gang have been jailed for more than 51 years after being convicted of conspiracy to supply crack cocaine.
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Sister of drug death bricklayer welcomes ’legal highs’ ban
From midnight last night new laws came in making it illegal to possess or sell so-called legal highs. Figures released last month found deaths linked to the synthetic drugs more than tripled in two years, with 76 known deaths over a decade.
Shops here have been taking the now illegal stock off their shelves. Some sellers say the ban will make no difference and those wanting the drugs will find them online. But those who are living with the consequences of how deadly they can be, disagree.
Charlotte Delo from Telford in Shropshire lost her brother Jamie Penn two years ago. The 29-year-old took a legal high at a party, but died in hospital.
Now Charlotte and her husband Delwyn hold talks to help those addicted from meeting the same fate.
Chris Halpin reports.
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Tragic teen died after taking ecstasy for the first time
18-year-old Dylan Booth died after taking MDMA-ecstasy tablets during his first night out on New Year's Eve.
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CCTV shows fake paramedics in drug smuggling operation
The pictures showing men posing as paramedics in a fake ambulance were played at the trial of four men, three of whom were convicted today.
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Fake ambulances used to smuggle £1.6bn of drugs into UK
Leonardus Bijlsma has been found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court over a £1.6 billion drug smuggling operation involving fake ambulances.
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Man convicted of using an ambulance to smuggle Class A drugs into the UK
A Dutchman has been found guilty of conspiring to smuggle drugs into the UK using a fake ambulance.
The £1.6 billion plot saw huge amounts of contraband brought across the Channel under the noses of British police.
Leonardus Bijlsma was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court this afternoon. Prosecutors said he was part of a "lucrative criminal conspiracy" concealed from border officials with the aid of bogus paramedic uniforms and fake patients on crutches.
Two other men from Holland; Olof Schoon, said to be the conspiracy's central player, and Richard Engelsbel had already admitted the conspiracy charge and will be sentenced alongside Bijlsma next week.
A fourth man, 28-year-old Dennis Vogelaar, of Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam, was acquitted by the jury of smuggling class A contraband.
The three men will be sentenced on December 7th.
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Pair jailed for importing drugs into Staffordshire
Two men have been jailed for more than ten years for bringing Class A drugs worth almost £7m into Staffordshire.
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Drug users in Nottinghamshire are being warned about a rogue batch of heroin which is thought to be behind six deaths in the county in one week.
The victims were all part of a drug rehabilitation programme. Police and public health officials believe the heroin is up to three times stronger than normal.
Dr Chris Kenny who works in Public Health at Nottinghamshire County Council, says it's a sad case as these people were on the 'road to recovery'.
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Six deaths linked to 'super strength heroin'
Nottinghamshire County Council have sent out warnings over 'super strength heroin' after six drug-related deaths over the last week.
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