Birmingham headlines: Sutton Coldfield dealer Elliot Kennedy disguised drugs as chocolate at his huge enterprise in Erdington
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Birmingham headlines 28 June: Sutton Coldfield dealer Elliot Kennedy disguised drugs as chocolate at his huge enterprise in Erdington
A drug dealer who disguised drugs as sweets and chocolate and posted them to buyers has been jailed. Police raided Elliot Kennedy's large-scale drug dealing base in Erdington, last March - and found £121,000 worth of drugs. He was jailed for seven and a half years at Birmingham Crown Court last Friday

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