{"id":180491,"date":"2025-06-13T07:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180491\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:20:14","slug":"gang-involved-in-sale-of-guns-in-birmingham-handed-lengthy-prison-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180491\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang involved in sale of guns in Birmingham handed lengthy prison sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gang of five have been given long prison sentences after a lengthy investigation by officers from the West Midlands Police Major Crime Unit, which started back in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>On October 13 that year, officers swooped on a black Ford Fiesta parked on Rennie Grove in Quinton, recovering a revolver and ammunition and arresting occupant Jade Slater and Keoin Headley, who was nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/84e12bda-585c-4be8-8efa-93bba2369651.png\"   alt=\"The gun recovered by officers. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The gun recovered by officers. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>The arrests sparked the major investigation and analysis of the pair\u2019s mobile phones uncovered evidence of a conspiracy to supply guns and ammunition involving the pair and other criminals, including Hamza Hoo, who was serving a prison sentence for aggravated burglary at the time and who used phones to coordinate the movement of guns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Salva Emungu and Slater had played a key role in the handling and couriering of the firearms around October 10, with forensic evidence directly linking Emungu to the recovered revolver, while the messages showed another man, Michael Howe, tried to buy the firearm that was recovered.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/696726be-12ea-468b-a8cd-1cda8b411f24.png\"   alt=\"Hamza Hoo was jailed for 12 years after admitting conspiracy to supply firearms. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Hamza Hoo was jailed for 12 years after admitting conspiracy to supply firearms. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Hoo, 22, of no fixed address, was jailed for 12 years after admitting conspiracy to supply firearms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3ecf5944-3c90-4421-ac18-d870f685815f.png\"   alt=\"Kieon Headley was jailed for six years. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Kieon Headley was jailed for six years. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Headley, 20, of no fixed address, was jailed for six years, Slater, aged 25, of no fixed address, was jailed for five years and seven months, while Emungu, of Nelson Road in Aston, was jailed for six years and four months. All had admitted conspiracy to supply firearms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/e971a05f-e3b0-4fd6-9ddc-72e5c8f6a44c.png\"   alt=\"Jade Slater was jailed for five years and seven months. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Jade Slater was jailed for five years and seven months. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Michael Howe, 20, of Maple Close in Birmingham, was jailed for two years and three months for attempting to possess a firearm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8eed3f19-7173-48c7-a3cf-db52493578ee.png\"   alt=\"Salva Emungu was jailed for six years and four months. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Salva Emungu was jailed for six years and four months. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>Det Insp Al Teague, from the Major Crime Unit, said: \u201cThis was a significant conspiracy to move and sell firearms around the West Midlands and beyond so that criminals could use them to threaten or harm others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bc1464b0-e618-4c3e-a5fd-2f509d4f0020.png\"   alt=\"Michael Howe was jailed for two years and three months for attempting to possess a firearm. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Michael Howe was jailed for two years and three months for attempting to possess a firearm. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will relentlessly pursue those involved in the use of firearms and all other forms of serious and organised crime.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;The success is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/police-forces\/west-midlands-police\/areas\/campaigns\/campaigns\/operation-target\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Target<\/a>, our 24\/7 mission to tackle serious and organised crime in the West Midlands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our officers target those involved in guns, drugs, money laundering and exploitation, making the region safer and protecting vulnerable people from exploitation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gang of five have been given long prison sentences after a lengthy investigation by officers from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-180491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114674848892615359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}