Suspected Black Country drug smugglers held

Five suspected drug smugglers were being quizzed today after dawn police raids across the Black Country.

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Houses and businesses in Walsall, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich were searched and cash and drugs were seized yesterday.

Officers swooped as part of a long-standing probe into the trafficking of drugs into the West Midlands.

It is linked to the conviction of West Bromwich woman Akeema Jones last year after she was found with three kilograms of cocaine hidden in food packages, bound for the UK.