Moment machete and shotgun gang raid rivals and make off with £250,000 of cocaine and heroin after they were seen posing with the drugs
A criminal gang armed with machetes and shotguns were captured on CCTV raiding a rival gang’s property and making off with almost £250,000 of cocaine and heroin – after dopey dealers posed for photos with the drugs.
The group of thugs were captured on camera pulling up to an ordinary-looking house in an Audi and a BMW, before storming the property in Sparkhill, Birmingham in May 2021.
After kicking open the door, they brutally attacked Mohammed Ishaq, 32, with a machete – leaving him with a large slash wound and injuries to his arm.
The gang then fled the address with a large haul of drugs as police and paramedics rushed to the scene on Oakwood Road.
Witnesses told police the men had been seen hiding in bushes in nearby Sparkhill Park, where officers recovered a mixing bowl containing 8kg of heroin and 1kg of cocaine.
It was valued at more than £225,000 – but would have been worth much more once mixed and prepared for sale on the street, according to police.
The men later drove around the park trying to recover the drugs before police could – with one even phoning 999 with a false report of a shooting in a bid to divert officers away from the park.
Cops also searched the house which had been targeted and found more drugs, mixing agents, scales mixing bowls and plastic bags.
Mohammed Ishaq, 32, who was attacked with a machete by the gang, is seen posing in a photo with drugs and cash
The group of thugs were captured on camera pulling up to an ordinary-looking house in an Audi and a BMW, before storming the property in Sparkhill, Birmingham in May 2021
After trawling CCTV and analysing mobile phone data, the group were arrested in a series of early morning raids on October 20, 2021.
Detectives found they controlled at least six separate drugs lines which customers would contact to buy class A drugs across Birmingham.
Officers also recovered a photo of one of the dopey dealers posing for a photo with bowls of the drugs.
Nine men have now been jailed for a combined total of more than 77 years following a 13 week trial at Birmingham Crown Court which ended in January.
The group’s leader Mohammed Imran Khan, 37, of Bordesley Green, Birmingham, was jailed for 14 years and two months.
He had made a stamp advertising one of the drugs line phone numbers and its opening hours, and drove others around in his BMW trying to recover the dumped stash after the raid.
Rival Mohammed Ishaq, of Sparkhill, who was attacked in the Oakwood Road house where he was preparing drugs, was jailed for 10 years and two months.
He was pictured in a recovered photo by police posing alongside mixing bowls filled with drugs and bundles of bank notes.
The gang attacked the property while hooded and masked before fleeing with 9kg of cocaine and heroin
The drugs stolen were later recovered by police officers in a nearby park
Clockwise from top left – Mohammed Butt, Anwar Awais, Nowshad Mohammed, Sohail Hussain, Mohammed Imran Khan, Mohammed Ishaq, Riaz Mohammed, Kaleem Khan and Ahmed Iqbal
Police officers arrested the men in a series of dawn raids on October 20, 2021
Officers from West Midlands Police forced entry into the gang members’ homes in the early hours of the morning
A stamp made by Mohammed Imran Khan, 37, advertising his drugs line with a phone number and opening hours
Kaleem Ullah Khan, 37, of Saltley, Birmingham, was jailed for 13 years and three months while Sohail Hussain, 31, of Bordesley Green, was caged for nine years and nine months.
Riaz Mohammed, 39, of Bordesley Green, was jailed for seven years and six months and Anwar Awais, 28, of Kings Heath, was sentenced to seven years and four months.
Mohammed Hamza Butt, 25, of Bordesley Green, was jailed for eight years and Nowshad Mohammed, 29, of Bordesley Green, was jailed for seven years and two months.
Ahmed Iqbal, 19, also from Bordesley Green, will be sentenced at a later date.
Detective Sergeant Danny Wilson, of West Midlands Police, said afterwards: ‘This was a gang that was trading in the human misery of class A drugs – exploiting vulnerable people and fuelling a violent trade.
‘Our investigation was triggered by an act of extreme violence against the gang, and that exposed the property at Oakwood Road as the headquarters of the operation.
‘They were at the higher end of the supply chain, and their illegal product was being used to supply people across the city.
‘These lengthy sentences send a powerful message to those involved in the drugs trade that we are coming for you and you will spend years behind bars.’
