Trio arrested at Birmingham Airport used Christian ministry as smokescreen for£2m cannabis importati

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Dalton Anderson, Alvin Russell and Sinclair Exhaust were captured at Birmingham Air terminal
L-R: Alvin Russell, Sinclair Exhaust and Dalton Anderson

A pack involved a Christian service as a front for a £2 million pot importation - dealing the medication from Jamaica to the UK through Birmingham Air terminal. Three men have been indicted after 400 kilos of the class B drug were seized.

The pot had been pressed into fixed tins of Akee leafy foods, a Jamaican green vegetable. Three separate transfers, addressed to Birmingham - based Vision Christian Services, were transported among Spring and May 2017 and

seized by Boundary Power.

Dalton Anderson, 50, Alvin Russell, 45, and 64-year-old Sinclair Exhaust were captured at the air terminal on May 23 that year while examining the third cluster, which had recently shown up. Public Wrongdoing Office specialists laid out that they coordinated the imports and gathered the medications from the air terminal.

Anderson and Russell likewise invested some energy
in Jamaica when the importations were made, taking care of cash and giving transportation documentation to Vision Christian Services through Exhaust. Each of the three were accused of trick to import class B drugs, while Anderson was likewise accused of ownership with goal to supply class B drugs after five kilos of pot was found at his Groveland Street home in Tipton following his capture.

Anderson was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on November 29, with Exhaust, likewise of Groveland Street, Tipton, and Russell, of Wood Path, West Bromwich, tracked down blameworthy on November 30, following a multi week preliminary. The threesome will be condemned at a similar court on January 27 one year from now.
The pot had been pressed into fixed tins of Callaloo

NCA tasks director, Rick Mackenzie, said: "Anderson, Exhaust and Russell negatively involved a Christian service as a distraction to bring colossal amounts of pot into the UK. They wrongly accepted that this would put them past the range of the Public Wrongdoing Organization and our policing. The NCA works intimately with Boundary Power to upset and destroy criminal organizations engaged with drug dealing."

Paul Harper, a ssistant chief inland line order for Boundary Power, added: "This was extraordinary work to stop £2 million worth of medications arriving at England's roads and hurting our networks. This seizure and others like it send an unmistakable message to anybody considering endeavoring to sneak unlawful medications into the country that we stay committed and ready to handle drug supply chains."

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