A delivery of brown boxes tipped police off to a huge £7m heroin plot.
Anthony Carroll, 39, and Anthony Sutherland, 47, both appeared via prison videolink to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court for their part in distributing vast quantities of drugs around the country. Both men pleaded guilty during previous hearings.
The court heard that police became suspicious when they saw "three large brown boxes" delivered to an address in St Helens. When this was raided by officers from the National Crime Agency - often dubbed the UK's FBI - they found a "significant number of tape-wrapped blocks" of class A drugs. More drugs were found at three other Merseyside addresses, including those of Carroll and Sutherland.
