An EncroChat dealer who went by the name "shallowfrog" was a trusted courier who helped move £8m worth of drugs.
Liverpool man Shaun Lewis, 55, was part of a major organised crime group who supplied large-scale quantities of class A drugs. Lewis worked alongside Michael Taylor, 43, of Newton Heath, who orchestrated the purchasing and supply of drugs with an estimated street value of around £8m.
The two men were ensnared by an investigation by Greater Manchester Police's Serious Organised Crime Unit. The probe was launched in 2020 after detectives gained access to the conversations between Lewis and Taylor on the back of the takedown of the encrypted network EncroChat.
