Sentencing of ten Black Country international drug kingpins gets underway in Wolverhampton
Ten Black Country criminals are being sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court in one of the biggest prescription drug cases in UK legal history.
The four-day hearing began today and will result in the sentencing of a gang who imported industrial amounts of fake Chinese Xanax pills and sold them online to thousands of customers.
The gang also important chemical compounds and then made tens of thousands of fake pills in drugs factories in Tipton and Wolverhampton garages
The gang used some of the most sophisticated methods yet seen selling the drugs on the dark web. After analysing what the gang were selling, medical experts branded the pills 'extremely dangerous' - with each customer playing Russian Roulette with their health.
The group even went to the lengths of coating the tablets in the same colour as the prescribed drugs they were ripping off.
Brian Pitts, of Wednesbury, Jordan and Anthony Pitts, of Wednesbury, Lee Lloyd, of Brierley Hill, Scott Tonkinson, of Willenhall, Mark Baylay, of Wolverhampton, Deborah Bellingham, of Tipton, Katie Harlow and Kyle Smith, of Wednesbury, and Bladon Roper, of Brierley Hill, were all in the dock at Wolverhampton Crown Court to be sentenced yesterday (Wednesday).
