Four members of a gang who attempted to move hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of drugs from Merseyside to North Wales will pay back just a fraction of their profit.
In March this year, 16 people were jailed for smuggling crack cocaine and heroin from Liverpool to Wrexham as they wreaked "misery" across communities, a judge said at the time. Seven were jailed for more than 64 years in prison and a further nine received a total of almost 130 years in prison for their part in the plot.
The arrests and eventual sentencing came as a result of North Wales Police's biggest ever operations, Operation Lancelot, which discovered a network of messages which revealed the group's illegal activity in Wrexham. The covert surveillance helped build a case against the drug gang who were found to have been involved in a plot to bring almost £750,000 worth of drugs into North Wales, North Wales Live reports.
