Suspected Staffordshire drug ring charged by police
A suspected drug ring believed to have been supplying class A substances for two years have been charged by police and will be hauled before the courts in a matter of weeks.
Staffordshire Police arrested 13 men and four women in total including suspects from Cannock, Wolverhampton and Walsall.
The gang were all snared under the force's Operation Nemesis aimed at tackling drug dealing.
They have all been charged with conspiring to supply cocaine in south Staffordshire between January 1, 2013 and January 1, 2015.
The group has already appeared before magistrates and will next attend Stafford Crown Court on September 22.
The suspects are:
Abdul Saeed, aged 37, of NFA
Mohammed Saeed, aged 42, of Summerfield Road, Wolverhampton
Shabaz Saeed, aged 45, of Napier Road, Wolverhampton
Sonny Barham, aged 28, of Weston Drive, Walsall
Sandy McInnes, aged 32, of Acorn Close, Cannock
Stephen Coldrick, aged 61, of Evans Street, Wolverhampton
Richard Smallman, aged 30, of Beau Court, Hednesford Road, Cannock
Martin Lloyd, 26, of Central Avenue, Cannock
Benjamin Brown, aged 33, of Wolverhampton Road, Cannock
Craig Hartshorne, aged 30, of Newhall Gardens, Cannock Road, Cannock
Emily Adams, aged 25, of Cannock Road, Cannock
Charlotte Adams, aged 28, of Bath Road, Cannock
Tina Hall-McInnes, aged 35, of Brooklands Road, Cannock
Shane Girvan, aged 31, of Rigby Drive, Cannock
Robert Jones, aged 25, of Buttermere Close, Cannock
Nathan Davis, aged 27, of Bradbury Lane, Hednesford
Kylie McGowan, aged 32, of NFA.