A county line drug gang was rumbled despite one of it's taxi driving members having "great cover".
Peter Noble, of Cooper Avenue in Liverpool and Jake Kiernan, of Vicarage Lane in Rhuddlan, appeared in the dock alongside Laraisa Thomas, of Rhydwen Drive in Rhyl after pleading guilty to conspiring to supply Class B drugs namely cannabis. Prosecuting, Andrew Jones, told a judge at Mold Crown Court how a covert police operation identified the three defendants were part of a wider organised crime group who were bringing cannabis into North Wales from across the border in Merseyside.
He said that Kiernan, 30, was heading up the gang and had the responsibility for sourcing "multiple kilograms" of cannabis from an upstream supplier named Hadyn Pendleton in Liverpool. The court heard how "security conscious" Kiernan used "at least" 10 different mobile phone numbers over the course of the conspiracy to avoid the detection of the police, NorthWalesLive reports.
