Jailed: Tipton trio dealt crack and heroin from girlfriend's home
Three men involved in a drugs conspiracy centred on a Tipton home have been jailed for a total of nearly 11 years.
For six months, Dishon Cassell and Kareem White helped fuel drug addicts across the region by supplying heroin and crack cocaine.
The class A drugs were cut, packaged and distributed from a home in Rugeley Close, where Cassell's girlfriend was living.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard the third man, Theo White, had only been involved on October 15 last year, the day the enterprise fell apart and the three were arrested. Cassell, of Belle Vale, Cradley, was handed a four-and-a-half year sentence, while Kareem White, of Camden Street, Hockley, Birmingham, was sentenced to three years and nine months.
For his lesser role, Theo White, of Rubery Drive, Rowley Regis, will serve a two-and-a-half year sentence.
They were sentenced on Friday having previously admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine.
Ms Samantha Powis, prosecuting, told the court the conspiracy was foiled by an undercover police operation centred on the Tipton home, an Audi and a Ford Fiesta.
All three men were arrested on October 15 last year near Hagley Road, Halesowen.
In the Ford Fiesta police found 10 wraps of heroin, a rock of cocaine and two mobile phones. From the Audi, five phones and £1,690 in cash was recovered.
Subsequent searches uncovered heroin worth £2,000 at the Tipton home, alongside cocaine, weighing scales and £1,000 cash.
Ms Powis said analysis of the recovered mobile phones showed large amounts of contact between Cassell, aged 24, and Kareem White, 21.
