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The Latest Breaking News from EncroChat

EncroChat drug runner 'Ladbrookes' given away when contact calls him 'Kurt'

Kurtis Bolton also gave away his location in messages he thought were too heavily encrypted for police to crack

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat dealer 'Skint Harry' caught in Manchester Airport after sending texts about car

George Powell conspired to supply 9kg of cocaine and 5kg of heroin between March and June 2020

Liverpool Echo

'We'll take the UK by storm' - Inside the downfall of the men who ruled the Cheshire drug trade

They were making money hand over fist - but their multi million pound drug operation had not gone unnoticed

Liverpool Echo

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Fearsome crime gangs who caused misery for people across Merseyside

The gangs made law abiding residents lives hell

Liverpool Echo

Gang who flooded streets with heroin and cocaine taken down in EncroChat sting

The gang were put behind bars for a combined total of 200 years

Liverpool Echo

Albanian gangsters running UK cocaine market but one 'protected' city won't let them in

Violent criminals from Albania now run the cocaine market in most parts of the UK, but so far have not managed to get a foothold in one particular city due to local gangs "protecting" the streets

Daily Mirror

Notebooks and burner phones exposed extent of national crime ring trading kilos of cocaine

Jamie Walsh kept ledgers showing thousands owed to him by his customers and thousands that he owed out to his suppliers

Liverpool Echo

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Kingpin smuggled kilos of cocaine and cannabis around the UK under cover of dog-breeding ring

NCA investigators attributed 14 pay as you go mobile phones as well as an EncroChat device to Jamie Walsh

Liverpool Echo

18 criminals given long stretches by the courts

These were the court cases for which the longest prison sentences were reserved during 2022

Liverpool Echo

Encro hack hits heavy drug gangs rooted in Croxteth, Huyton and West Derby

Police operation codenamed Venetic has compromised entrenched crime groups in the east of the city

Liverpool Echo

LedZeppelin Encro user Stephen Canty now 'living overseas'

Faye Dunn was arrested at Manchester Airport as part of the EncroChat operation

Liverpool Echo

Secret drug plots of 'Big Dunc', 'Musical Salmon', 'Educated Goose' and 'Heroic Fox'

These are some of the most unique handles used by EncroChat users from Merseyside

Liverpool Echo

'RigidForce' and 'CliffsHard' EncroChat dealers unmasked

The two men had been involved in supplying drugs for over a year

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat thug 'Stealthy' boasted of 'mint wages' from heroin and guns trade

Arron Corkovic forged links with Merseyside organised crime groups and spoke of wanting to set up a street dealing ring

Liverpool Echo

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Manchester Evening News

Notorious Salford criminal going by nickname 'Stealthy' caught brokering sale of guns and heroin

In one message, Arron Corkovic wrote: "I can get a taster of that nasty (heroin) to pass out to a few kids before the restrictions kick in."

Evening Standard

Revealed: Met Police PC and her cocaine baron husband living a millionaire’s lifestyle

Julian Agalliu, 47, sold drugs packaged with the Hublot brand through EncroChat

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat crook's signed Tyson Fury belt seized after Manchester Airport arrest

Liam Freaney is facing a lengthy sentence

Daily Mirror

International drug trafficking plot smashed after gang member shared photo of his dog

Danny Brown, 55, included in the image the tag of his French Bulldog, named Bob, which had his partner’s phone number on it and was later used to help snare him

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The Independent UK

£45m drug smuggling plot foiled by gangster’s photo of pet dog

The picture was spotted on Encron by National Crime Agency investigators

Manchester Evening News

Drug and gun-running gang boss planned to make so much money he'd be 'set up for life'

Mohammed Shahid was described as a 'key facilitator' in a Cheetham Hill-based gang which trafficked guns and 'wholesale amounts' of heroin and cocaine

Liverpool Echo

Royal Marine drug dealers snared after thousands of EncroChat messages uncovered

Detective Constable Gary McArthur has been honoured for his work on cracking a £300,000 drugs ring

The Guardian - UK

Cracking apps: are crimefighters going too far to bring down cartels?

Deciphering encryption is said to have upended a vast drug network, but some say the method should worry us all

Manchester Evening News

'Fantastic father' is exposed as an international drug dealer who traded in guns

Sidaquet Sadiq, 38, has been sentenced to 18-and-a-half years in jail

Bristol Post

Bristol and South Gloucestershire men used encrypted messaging to deal drugs on 'commercial scale'

James Marshall and Scott Ryan were two of five men to be sentenced for a combined 30 years

Daily Record

Scots cop who nailed EncroChat organised crime gang hailed after unmasking corrupt Royal Marines

Ministry of Defence Detective Constable Gary McArthur was tasked with unmasking five gangsters involved in the supply of drugs and laundering more than £7m in Glasgow and Merseyside.

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