The Wigan based dealers flooded the streets with up to 75 kilos of the class A drug
A gang dubbed the ‘most organised outfit around’ have been locked up after peddling £7 million worth of cocaine through a church ‘drug factory’. The eight strong outfit bought and sold huge amounts of cocaine and flooded streets across the country with the class A drug.
Jamie Kenny, 33, taught other dealers how to break blocks of cocaine in order to ‘maximise profits’, while others were employed in the antiques shop to package up the drug for street selling. Their drugs operation was brought down following the law enforcement hack of the EncroChat network in June 2020, which led to each of the eight gang members being arrested and their houses searched. Officers found designer clothing, expensive watches and numerous phones.
In various messages Dean Smallwood, 43, and Jamie Kenny discussed how to decompress the drugs to maximise profits for the gang, with Smallwood agreeing to buy cutting agents for £1,000. Daryl Golding, 35, was tasked with breaking down the drugs in payment for £1,000, with Smallwood at one stage buying 250 kilos of caffeine, the court heard.
Sam Causer, 33, was later sent to collect 10 kilos of cocaine with a poker emblem on the side, and was also asked by Smallwood to make drops of the drug around the local area. Messages showed that Smallwood also asked Jamie Kenny for £100k in cash for a customer, which he later counted and packaged up using a vacuum packing machine.
However, Causer remained under surveillance by the authorities and was spotted on various rendezvous’ using a red air compressor with a hidden compartment. When he was later arrested, the compressor was discovered with a hidden chamber used to conceal items.
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