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A Birmingham drug dealer was rumbled by police officers after he topped up his phone at a shop.

Investigators closed in on Omari Maitland after they linked a mobile phone he was using to a drugs line in Birmingham and the Black Country.

West Midlands Police said Maitland, 31, was responsible for running the 'Black Drugs Line' through the West Midlands.

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County Lines Taskforce officers had been tracking Maitland when they reviewed CCTV showed him topping up a mobile phone - which police believed was linked to the drug dealing - at shops in Wolverhampton during the end of 2024 and early

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