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The Latest Breaking News from EncroChat

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

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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

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

Liverpool Echo

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

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'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

Liverpool Echo

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

Manchester Evening News

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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Liverpool Echo

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

Daily Mirror

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

Liverpool Echo

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

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Liverpool Echo

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

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