Overview
- Police executed multi-address warrants in Coventry and Birmingham during a July 2025 inquiry into the 'Kam' county lines and seized multiple kilos of cocaine, crack and heroin.
- Investigators recovered £131,000 in cash, including large sums hidden inside garden plant pots, which officers say indicated deliberate money‑laundering and concealment tactics.
- Madat Ali and Rowen Picken pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court and were sentenced on Monday to 12 years and six months and six years in prison respectively for supply and criminal property offences.
- West Midlands Police said the operation was led by its County Lines Taskforce as part of Operation Target and that the 'Kam' line has been shut down.
- Officers warned the case shows how organised networks hide cash and shift drugs across the region and said continued taskforce work will target similar lines to protect local communities.