Four charged in small boats people smuggling probe
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Three men and one woman are accused of conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration.
Four people have been accused of being involved in using small boats to smuggle people to the UK.
Pistiwan Jameel, 53 and Clare Meekings, 52 - both of Old Oscott Lane in Birmingham - have been charged with conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration.
Artan Halilaj, 39 of Crosslands Avenue, Southall and Fiorentino Halilaj, 25, are charged with the same offence.
They were due to appear before magistrates in Birmingham on Wednesday.
Fiorentino Halilaj, of no fixed abode, had been at an immigration detention centre near Heathrow when he was questioned by National Crime Agency officers.
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