Members of a drugs gang who ‘brought misery’ to a small town in Lancashire in a covert drugs supply and money laundering operation have been sentenced to a total of almost 60 years in prison.
The gang, who operated in and around the Preston area, were rumbled following a complex investigation by Lancashire Constabulary. Officers established the gang used a series of burner phones to tempt people with the latest supply of Class A Drugs - namely heroin and crack cocaine.
Using the encrypted mobile phone network Encrochat, the gang would secretly communicate with each other and conduct their deals. The Encrochat servers were taken down in 2020 following a huge and long-running investigation led by the National Crime Agency.
