Stephen Earle worked closely with his cousin Terence to ship heroin and cocaine
An EncroChat dealer who called himself 'Octo-hand' went on the run to Portugal as police were closing in on him. Stephen Earle, 52, from Crosby , travelled abroad in July 2020, and remained there to avoid capture after NCA officers arrested other gang members in March 2021. Earle worked closely with his cousin Terence Earle, 50, who was jailed for 16 and a half years in April last year.
The pair shipped at least 10 kilos of heroin and seven kilos of cocaine, with the former moved from Merseyside to Motherwell in Scotland and the latter in the opposite direction. Eventually, Earle was arrested by the Polícia Judiciária fugitive team in Faro in January this year at the request of the NCA, and returned to the UK on March 18.
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