Reece Barnes would buy blocks of cocaine for £30,000 in country lanes before storing it in a shoebox at a storage unit near his home in Windermere
An investigation into a drug dealer in the Lake District unravelled an Amazon-style criminal network with tentacles reaching across the continent to Portugal and Dubai.
CCTV showed he would stash the drugs in a shoebox in a storage unit near his home in Windermere, and detectives said he would sell them in small amounts, using the profits to pay for holidays and city breaks. Stockall, of Weaverham, was arrested in February 2023 when his vehicle was stopped on the M56 in Cheshire and more than 40g of cocaine was found in his car.Barnes was arrested on February 4 2023, in possession of one kilogram of cocaine, following a drug deal with Cain Turner, 32, the NWROCU spokesman said.
He was being controlled by a crime group led by Andrew Stephens, 41, of Golbourne, Cheshire, and Simon Buller, 45, of Atherton, Manchester, police said . The investigation revealed they were working with criminals in Dubai who were controlling the importation of cocaine from Holland into the UK and would send couriers to ports along the south coast to collect the drugs and store them in safe houses in Manchester.
Owen, of Astley, Manchester, who was arrested on a flight back from Portugal in May last year, was sentenced to 14 years six months after he was found guilty following a trial.
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