The Operation SubZero probe targeted Vincent Coggins' gang after he made menacing threats after £1m of cocaine was robbed
The sentencing of a drug dealer who was part of the 'senior management' of the Huyton Firm is the culmination of a police probe that resulted in some of the first EncroChat convictions. Edward Robert Jarvis, 59, a key figure in the Merseyside organised crime group led by Vincent Coggins, was sentenced today, Friday, October 4 to 25 years' imprisonment at Manchester Crown Court .
detectives and Merseyside Police carried out a series of warrants across Liverpool and Knowsley and arrested Coggins, Earle, Woodford and Jarvis three days later. In the weeks and months that followed, detectives executed other warrants against the wider crime group, resulting in the arrests of Kevin Rimmer, Darren Tierney, Dean Borrows, and Paul Glynn. Paul Fitzsimmons was arrested in Amsterdam after being on the run for more than two years.
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