Four jailed for drugs operation between Coventry and Leamington
The group were sentenced to a combined total of more than 30 years.
A group of drug dealers operating between Leamington and Coventry have been jailed.
Ricci Walker, Samantha Clews, Samir Abdulrahman and Lloyd Archer were sentenced to a combined total of more than 30 years.
Another defendant, Hamayon Mafozullah will be sentenced at a later date.
Police investigated the group's activities, which included using their vehicles to run cocaine and heroin from Leeds to Leamington and Coventry, and selling them in bulk to drug users.
Camera footage caught Walker dealing in an alleyway and the rest of his associates, including Abdulrahman, using youths to deal drugs throughout 2020.
In December that year, Walker was arrested while being carried in a car driven by Mahfozulla, with a substantial amount of Class A drugs being seized in the process.
Following their arrest, a search was carried out at an address in Leamington and recovered items including phones, weighing scales, empty bags and large amounts of suspected Class A drugs.
Archer was arrested during this search and had been running the operation there on Walker's behalf.
They were sentenced as follows:
Walker: 14 years and 6 months for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
Clews: 6 years for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
Archer: 31 months for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
Samir Abdulrahman: 33 months for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.
Detective Sergeant Sarah Evans said: "This was a sophisticated system of drug dealing which relied on transporting vast amounts of Class A drugs across the region.
"This type of offending nearly always relies on the exploitation of vulnerable people, including those who transport the drugs and those who buy them.
"Thanks to some excellent investigative work by the officers involved, we were able to break up and put an end to this group's network."