Pair locked up for bringing heroin and crack into Wolverhampton for County Lines op
Two men have been locked up for using a County Lines enterprise supplying heroin and crack cocaine in Wolverhampton.
Amarie Haughton, aged 22, operated the phone line known as '6363' used to send bulk text messages to prospective customers when drugs were available to buy in the area.
Brian Armstrong, aged 59, then acted as a runner delivering the crack and heroin to buyers in Wolverhampton between September 2024 and February 2025.
Investigators from our County Lines Taskforce used forensic analysis of the men's mobile phone data to track their activity before arresting the men on 22 February.
Armstrong was arrested at his home address in Glaisdale Gardens, Whitmore Reans where officers seized a phone, around £200 in cash and a notepad which contained people's names and values of money.
When Haughton was arrested at home in Hurstbourne Crescent, Stowheath, officers seized around £200 in cash, scales, SIM cards and a small quantity amount of crack cocaine.
They also seized a burner phone, without a SIM card, from a bin cupboard.
West Midlands Police said the case against the two men was so strong that they both entered guilty pleas to being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine, before they were sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court on September 24.
Haughton was jailed for a total of four years and two months and Armstrong was sentenced to three years and one month.
The force said the swoop was the latest in a number of successes under Operation Target, a force wide campaign against serious and organised crime.
