Overview

• West Midlands Police traffic officers stopped Byrd on March 14 on Kenilworth Road in Balsall Common, leading to his arrest.
• Officers discovered over 25 kilos of cocaine marked ‘King’ in his vehicle, valued at about £3.8 million.
• A search of his Sidcup home uncovered additional kilograms of cocaine and significant sums of cash.
• Byrd confessed to carrying Class A drugs on multiple trips linking the Midlands with the capital for an organised crime group.
• On June 13, Birmingham Crown Court sentenced him to 13 years and six months after his guilty plea to conspiring to supply Class A drugs.