{"id":632308,"date":"2025-12-14T17:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632308\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:24:27","slug":"dangerous-birmingham-drugs-dealer-who-hid-a-gun-in-a-sock-is-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632308\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dangerous&#8217; Birmingham drugs dealer who hid a gun in a sock is jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua McCaffrey was jailed on Thursday after admitting offences when officers carried out a raid under Operation Target.<\/p>\n<p>On January 9 this year, officers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a>County Lines Taskforce carried out a warrant at an address in Brinklow Tower, Highgate, where they found a revolver, a 9mm pistol, and over 30 rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f8df3e46-46cd-4838-b836-13201a7c3b43.jpg\"   alt=\" Joshua McCaffrey\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/> Joshua McCaffrey<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the specialist team also seized over ten kilos of heroin, over two kilos of cocaine, and over 44 grams of crack cocaine &#8211; with the drugs estimated to be worth up to \u00a3300,000 in wholesale value.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27d4b7e5-e7d8-4828-9fea-44113c418977.jpg\"   alt=\"A firearm was found hidden in a sock\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>A firearm was found hidden in a sock<\/p>\n<p>McCaffrey was arrested from the address and charged with multiple offences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e4fb82e4-9388-427e-92d3-892e48b43cf5.jpg\"   alt=\"Drugs worth over \u00a3300,000 were found\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Drugs worth over \u00a3300,000 were found<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old initially pleaded not guilty but changed his plea to guilty to possession with intent to supply cocaine; possession with intent to supply heroin; possession of firearms; possession of ammunition; being concerned in the supply of cocaine and being concerned in the supply of heroin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2a419928-bf1d-455c-83ae-bf629f85930d.jpg\"   alt=\"One of the two guns seized\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>One of the two guns seized<\/p>\n<p>McCaffrey, of Highgate Street, Birmingham, was jailed for 12 years on Thursday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham\u00a0<\/a>Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A spokesperson for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;Following a thorough investigation, we were able to identify McCaffrey as a dangerous drug dealer who was also in possession of firearms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McCaffrey was clearly a dangerous individual, who has been taken off the streets and will be spending a long time behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know County Lines networks cause misery within our communities as drugs not only ruin lives but also fuel other crime. We\u2019re working day in, day out, to bring down drug lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We work 24\/7 as part of Operation Target to identify criminals involved in serious organised crime and bring them to justice, while preventing people from falling victim to some of their traumatic or harmful crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua McCaffrey was jailed on Thursday after admitting offences when officers carried out a raid under Operation Target.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632309,"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-632308","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\/115719089374723360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632308","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=632308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}