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Drug trafficker 'Stocky Giant' armed himself with grenades in multi-million pound plot

EncroChat messages revealed business partner's links to criminals in Colombia, Brazil and Dubai

Liverpool Echo

Misconduct probe of crime agency chief split into two enquiries

Nikki Holland, former Merseyside Police officer, faces allegations of data protection breaches, bullying and misuse of public funds

Liverpool Echo

Sky box helped bring down EncroChat broker

Dad plotted Mersey Tunnel smuggling scheme during lockdown and sourced drugs for 'Mr Kipling'

Liverpool Echo

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Gangland 'chaos' as EncroChat arrests lead to 'instability' in underworld

Senior officers are considering whether "chaotic individuals" on the streets are looking to "fill the gaps"

Liverpool Echo

The Manchester brothers locked up after their criminal racket comes crashing down

Owen and Niall Trainor have both been jailed

Manchester Evening News

EncroChat dad 'WoodenJay' caught after sending pictures of new baby

William Davidson and Steven Gorry were involved in the supply of 108kg of cocaine and 14kg of heroin

Liverpool Echo

The 24 most wanted men in the UK - who the public are warned not to approach

The National Crime Agency has warned people not to approach these men if they see them

Manchester Evening News

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EncroChat drug runner 'Lemonlager' caught after taking selfies

Jan Luke Carmichael worked mainly as a courier but also dealt drugs in his own right

Liverpool Echo

Our Liverpool: the stories to read before the weekend

Welcome to Our Liverpool - the ECHO's twice-daily briefing on our most important stories

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat car dealer boasted he could make £30k a week with 'Netflix' drug operation

Richard Weild had a watch and clothing collection worth at least £70k

Liverpool Echo

‘Chadwell Cartel’ drug dealers who aspired to be next Ronnie and Reggie Kray jailed for 25 years

Two Essex men aspired to be like the Kray twin brother gangsters notorious in the 1950s

Evening Standard

The gang who used the vulnerable, Covid and a city centre hotel to peddle misery to thousands

They have all been jailed following surveillance by Greater Manchester Police

Manchester Evening News

The criminal past of Thomas Campbell... the man 'tortured to death' in his own home

Thomas Campbell's killers have faced justice

Manchester Evening News

EncroChat gang with nicknames 'Shinyegg' and 'Buttermoon' snared after moving over £1 million worth of drugs

Cocaine, cannabis, weapons, more than £100,000 cash and a significant amount of crypto-currency was recovered

Manchester Evening News

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Liverpool Echo

Encro dealer 'Scarface Anfield' caught after saying his real name

Lee O’Donnell bragged about buying a TV at a certain shop, meaning officers could check CCTV

Liverpool Echo

Dealer 'Masked Swan' unmasked by fingerprints on picture of him holding cannabis

Former DJ used his 'big horrible Serbian mate' to enforce £100,000 as he traded in heroin and cocaine

Liverpool Echo

Fallen cocaine kingpin tells court he has no money for lawyers

Ryan Palin was jailed for decades over a conspiracy to supply 700kg of cocaine

Liverpool Echo

Cannabis café owner, cathedral arsonist and child rapist among 12 crooks jailed this week

These are the criminals from our region who were locked up over the past seven days

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Liverpool Echo

73 faces and codenames of dozens of EncroChat criminals linked to Merseyside

An overview of the cases linked to the major investigation into the use of communications network EncroChat by the region's underworld

Liverpool Echo

Dennis the Dachshund, Conor McGregor, and the mistakes that landed EncroChat dealers in jail

The astonishing level of trust placed in EncroChat phones by senior criminals proved to be a catastrophic error

Manchester Evening News

Drunk easyJet passenger and smirking drug dealer among criminals locked up in Greater Manchester in January

Perverts, violent thugs and rapists were among those caged in our region

Liverpool Echo

'Middle man' in drug trade identified by pictures of girlfriend's dachshund Dennis

Seized photo album 'The Little Book of Dennis' linked heroin and cocaine trafficker to EncroChat handle

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat dealers 'MangyStaff' and 'WideOrchid' supplied Liverpool underworld

The dealers ran a drugs operation flooding towns across the UK

Manchester Evening News

Encrochat drug runner thought his messages were too heavily encrypted for police to crack... then a contact called him by his real name

Cocaine trafficker Kurtis Bolton is now behind bars

Manchester Evening News

The Manchester drug dealers jailed over huge operation that 'spanned whole of UK'

Police 'thrilled' after evidence gathered following the cracking of encrypted Encrochat mobile phone network

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