Notebooks, tick-lists and burner phones expose crime ring flooding Lancashire with kilos of cocaine and cannabis
An organised crime group using a network of drug runners to supply dealers in Lancashire and Cumbria was exposed by a series of notebooks, tick-lists and 'burner phones'.
Walsh remained on the run until December 2022, when he was detained in Spain, and was finally brought to justice at court last week almost five years after he was first detained. The delay was due to his time as a fugitive combined with the Covid-19 lockdowns, the barrister strikes and other defendants' cases, the ECHO reports.
"Those notes included a ‘tick-list’ type entry which refers to money paid out for 4kg of cannabis . There is also reference to the supply of 2kg of Cannabis to an unidentified customer. On arrest, Walsh was in possession of three mobile devices: a ‘smart phone’, a ‘Nokia’ and an encrypted EncroChat phone.
Walsh's illicit trafficking network did not stop even after Garner, of Sunnyside Road in Crosby, was arrested on the M6 motorway on October 15, 2017, heading for an address in Swindon. Police found 24.5kgs of cannabis resin in the boot of his car, worth around £60,000 at street level. Notebooks later recovered from Walsh's then address in Daresbury Road, St Helens, referred to supplying "Matty" with quarter kilos of cocaine. Lee was tracked making eight journeys from Cornwall to Liverpool, Birmingham and London, meeting Walsh in each location.
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