From the Times and Sunday Times, this is the story.
It's October 2023.
Police officers are patrolling the east of Leeds when they spot someone in a balaclava.
It's autumn and a bit cold, but this is suspicious.
The figure starts to run before they duck into a shop and remove the disguise,
only to be turfed out immediately, because shop staff recognise him.
In fact, he's already been banned.
18-year-old Solomon Samvari is arrested.
Police find roughly £400 of crack cocaine and heroin on him,
and a phone which they will later tell the court shows clear evidence of drug dealing.
He admits supplying Class A drugs and is sent to a young offenders institution.
Fast forward just over a year to January 2025 and once again.
There was an arrest of someone called Solomon Samwari.
Again on drug-related charges.
And this time, police officers 25 miles away in York paid attention.
They'd recently launched Operation Titan, a force-wide effort to tackle County Line's drug dealing.
And Sam Rawi had already caught their eye.
The belief was that he was, in the early days, the person in charge of the Sam Line.
Sam was then one of 20 county lines running into the city, selling crack cocaine and heroin via text message.
It was one of the first lines, along with the Diego line,