Jail for drugs gang who ran 'Mario and Luigi' networks peddling heroin and cocaine in the West Midlands

Five men have been jailed for their involvement in running three class A drugs lines in Birmingham.

Andre Sargeant, Jayden Brown, Kymani Brade, Max Campbell and Remone Dunkley each had individual roles in the running of three drugs lines which assisted each other, working in coalition in one overall drug operation.

West Midlands Police’s County Lines Taskforce (CLTF) launched an investigation and found that the drugs lines, known as Mario, Luigi, and Cam, supplied class A drugs out of Highgate, Birmingham.

Between October 2024 and February 2025, the quintet sent and received thousands of messages related to drug dealing, and following enforcement in 2025, they were arrested one by one.

The CLTF officers carried out an extensive investigation, examining phone records and thousands of files of data and transactions, which made clear the extent of the group’s operations.

Taskforce officers, olongside officers from Operation Fearless and the force’s Major Crime Unit, raided the home addresses of the five men, where they were all arrested.

At Birmingham Crown Court, Brown pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply heroin and cocaine and possession of heroin and cocaine with intent to supply.

Sargeant, Brade, Campbell and Dunkley all pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply heroin and cocaine.

Brown, 24 and of Selma Grove, Birmingham, was jailed for six years and six months.

Sargeant, 28 and of Rickman Drive, Birmingham, was jailed for six years and nine months.

Brade, 25 and of Bellevue, Birmingham, was jailed for five years and nine months.

Campbell, 29 and of Brownsea, Birmingham, was jailed for five years.

Dunkley, 25 and of no fixed address, was jailed for four years.

Detective Sergeant Craig Tennant, from the CLTF, said: "This was a significant and complex investigation into three drugs lines working in tandem.

“There can be no doubt from our enquiries that these men were responsible for a variety of drugs being dealt, which we know bring misery to communities.

“The group may have thought at one stage or another that they’d got away with this, but will instead be serving long prison sentences. This is a message to other drug dealers that we’re not letting up in our work to disrupt drug networks across the West Midlands.”