Birmingham dealer was part of huge operation behind three drug lines

Two dealers - including a Birmingham man - have been jailed and three drugs lines named after famous boxers shut down across Staffordshire. Police raided ten separate addresses simultaneously in Burton-on-Trent in April this year.

Officers found £20,000-worth of heroin and crack cocaine and mobile phones linked to dealing. The raids came in the wake of months of police investigation into men and women linked to county lines operating in Staffordshire.

The Bruno Line, AJ Line, and Frank Line drug operations were all shut down. The raids led to several people, including Joseph During and Christopher Zama, both 23, being charged.

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Zama, of Gravelly Hill, Birmingham was jailed for seven years after being found guilty at Stafford Crown Court on October 31 of being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin and possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin. During, of no fixed address, was locked up for six years after admitting the same offences.

He also received a three-month prison term, to run consecutively, after pleading guilty to possession of a knife or blade in a public place. Meanwhile, Nikita Lismanovics, 19, from Stapenhill, Ethan Wilson, 18, and Troy Francis, 22, from Burton-on-Trent, admitted conspiring to supply heroin and crack cocaine.

Julie Stringer, 30, from Burton-on-Trent, admitted conspiring to supply crack cocaine and Anthony Mills, 40, from Stapenhill, and David Tonks, 44, from Streethay in Lichfield, admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine. All six will be sentenced at a later date.

Detective Superintendent Nicki Addison of Staffordshire Police said: “We're delighted that due to the persistence and hard work of our proactive teams we have been able to shut down three county lines and work towards making our communities safer by undertaking this relentless activity."