Police have shared pictures of what they have described as a "major victory" against drug gangs in Wales. They show a compartment in a van's floor which was stuffed with almost £40,000 in cash, images of a clandestine meeting in Abergele and a haul of high purity cocaine.
All were taken as part of a covert investigation dubbed Operation Blue Cobalt to snare some of the 14 members of two organised crime groups bringing misery to Wales.
The conspirators were jailed at Caernarfon Crown Court this week over plotting to supply cocaine and cannabis in a £6m crime in our region using Encrochat-style messages. A judge put 13 of the members behind bars for a total of 109 years and seven months. A fourteenth member will learn his fate later.
