Dean Cooper told his criminal contact: 'You’ve got to get to this butchers on Tuesday best meat ever had mate.”
Dean Cooper, of Atwood Grove in Roby , used the handle 'Berrystar' on EncroChat. The 51-year-old sent messages to contacts about drugs deals and National Crime Agency officers used a variety of methods to establish that Cooper and Berrystar were the same.
Berrystar shared the butcher’s name and when officers investigated they confirmed Cooper had spent £34 at the shop. Berrystar had also told one contact about spending £240 on two pairs of trainers. Berrystar had also sent photographs on EncroChat from inside a house – the pictures matched inside Cooper’s home. In February this year Cooper appeared at Liverpool Crown Court and admitted, between March 30, 2020 and April 24, 2020, conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin, amphetamine, cannabis resin and ketamine to customers in Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield. He also admitted possession of cocaine.
National Crime Agency investigators, as part of Operation Venetic, the NCA-led response to the takedown of encrypted communications platform EncroChat, caught Cooper after the painstaking analysis.
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