Across the county, gangs continue to pedal class A drugs, recruiting children and drug users to work on the ground, while the puppet masters operate from afar
This week, county lines gang leader Christopher Williams and his money laundering girlfriend Lauren Callister were ordered to pay back £25k of their ill-gotten gains.
“Every day we are working pro-actively to gather intelligence and carry out operations to both disrupt county lines drug dealers and to identify those at risk from this type of criminality. We have made a number of arrests which is pleasing. You should expect to see more arrests in the coming weeks and months as we continue taking the fight to groups wanting to deal drugs in our county.”
The five other member of the OCG were sentenced at an earlier hearing in March. The offences relate to the running of a crack cocaine and heroin ‘county line’ branded as the ‘Mo’ into south Cumbria between July and August 2021.The £70k Lancashire drugs gang armed with explosives, a cannabis farm and a very dangerous man at the top These are the faces of an East Lancs drugs gang which raked in more than £70,000 pedalling heroin, crack and recreational drugs.
Umar Hamid, 31, previously of Hazel Avenue, Darwen, sentenced to 10 years and 10 months for conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs. Hamid is already serving a 22 year sentence for rape afer being convicted in February 2021. Full story: The £70k Lancashire drugs gang with explosives, a cannabis farm and a very dangerous man at the top
Abrar Ahmed, 24, of Kingsway, Manchester, Yasir Ali, 22, of Meade Grove, Manchester, Shavon Morrison, 21, of Claremont Road, Manchester and Richard Mushonga 21, of Medway Close, Salford were all arrested and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs.Ahmed was jailed for five years, Ali for four years eight months, and Morrison and Mushonga each sentenced to three years and four months in prison.
An Accrington-based drugs gang that supplied thousands of pounds worth of class A drugs have been jailed for more than 30 years. Junaid Khan, 22, of Lime Road, Accrington, was charged with was convicted of conspiring to supply crack cocaine and heroin. He was jailed for 12 years and eight months.
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