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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Jon Macpherson & Ashlie Blakey

Gang wreaked misery on North West after flooding streets with drugs through 'taxi firm' call centre

An organised crime gang ran a 'slick' call centre where people could ring up and order cocaine.

The operation was run like a 'taxi firm', a court heard. It was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is believed to have supplied around £2million worth of class A drugs to people across the North West, LancsLive reports.

The call centre, which was based in a flat or house, contained a mobile phone which people could ring to order the drugs. A separate mobile would then be used to dispatch couriers to deliver the drugs.

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