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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 5 - Caught on Camera

Secret drug plots of 'Big Dunc', 'Musical Salmon', 'Educated Goose' and 'Heroic Fox'

These are some of the most unique handles used by EncroChat users from Merseyside

Liverpool Echo

'RigidForce' and 'CliffsHard' EncroChat dealers unmasked

The two men had been involved in supplying drugs for over a year

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat thug 'Stealthy' boasted of 'mint wages' from heroin and guns trade

Arron Corkovic forged links with Merseyside organised crime groups and spoke of wanting to set up a street dealing ring

Liverpool Echo

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Notorious Salford criminal going by nickname 'Stealthy' caught brokering sale of guns and heroin

In one message, Arron Corkovic wrote: "I can get a taster of that nasty (heroin) to pass out to a few kids before the restrictions kick in."

Manchester Evening News

Revealed: Met Police PC and her cocaine baron husband living a millionaire’s lifestyle

Julian Agalliu, 47, sold drugs packaged with the Hublot brand through EncroChat

Evening Standard

EncroChat crook's signed Tyson Fury belt seized after Manchester Airport arrest

Liam Freaney is facing a lengthy sentence

Liverpool Echo

International drug trafficking plot smashed after gang member shared photo of his dog

Danny Brown, 55, included in the image the tag of his French Bulldog, named Bob, which had his partner’s phone number on it and was later used to help snare him

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£45m drug smuggling plot foiled by gangster’s photo of pet dog

The picture was spotted on Encron by National Crime Agency investigators

The Independent UK

Drug and gun-running gang boss planned to make so much money he'd be 'set up for life'

Mohammed Shahid was described as a 'key facilitator' in a Cheetham Hill-based gang which trafficked guns and 'wholesale amounts' of heroin and cocaine

Manchester Evening News

Royal Marine drug dealers snared after thousands of EncroChat messages uncovered

Detective Constable Gary McArthur has been honoured for his work on cracking a £300,000 drugs ring

Liverpool Echo

Cracking apps: are crimefighters going too far to bring down cartels?

Deciphering encryption is said to have upended a vast drug network, but some say the method should worry us all

The Guardian - UK

'Fantastic father' is exposed as an international drug dealer who traded in guns

Sidaquet Sadiq, 38, has been sentenced to 18-and-a-half years in jail

Manchester Evening News

Bristol and South Gloucestershire men used encrypted messaging to deal drugs on 'commercial scale'

James Marshall and Scott Ryan were two of five men to be sentenced for a combined 30 years

Bristol Post

Scots cop who nailed EncroChat organised crime gang hailed after unmasking corrupt Royal Marines

Ministry of Defence Detective Constable Gary McArthur was tasked with unmasking five gangsters involved in the supply of drugs and laundering more than £7m in Glasgow and Merseyside.

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Dealers joked about getting complaints from mums of kids they employed to sell drugs

In messages recovered from Encrochat, the three men also discussed setting up a drugs line during the coronavirus lockdown because they were 'skint'

Liverpool Echo

Sex shop plans, Ava White tributes and Encrochat suspect

The latest ECHO headlines on Thursday, November 24

Liverpool Echo

Encrochat drug dealing suspect named after extradition from Holland

He was detained at Manchester Airport after being extradited from Holland

Evening Standard

Met Police PC’s husband ‘traded kilos of cocaine and cannabis through EncroChat’

Julian Agalliu is said he boasted to associates about being married to a Metropolitan Police officer

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Liverpool Echo

'Mothvodka' and 'Unawaregiraffe' ran major EncroChat drug gang

Key players were found to be using handles "Mothvodka" and "Unawaregiraffe"

Liverpool Echo

Cocaine deal broker and debt collector splashed out on Rolex for his birthday

EncroChat user 'Dior Fox' was identified after sending pictures of his wife and kids to other conspirators

Manchester Evening News

Dad boasts about stashing a 'right arsenal' of terrifying weapons for criminal underworld

Christopher Winder, from Salford, kept four deadly firearms for a drugs boss

Liverpool Echo

Encrochat dealer 'Limitedturtle' involved in £1m cocaine and heroin plot

The dealer was found with more than £500k of cocaine in his bedroom

Manchester Evening News

'Stash man' who stored £800,000 of cocaine for gangster family at his parents' house jailed on his birthday

Nabeel Rashad, from Bury, was snared after being spotted carrying 'large and heavy' bin bags into the home

Wales Online

'Trusted lieutenant' played significant role in multi-kilo heroin deals

Rizwan Anwar, 29, of Newport, and his cousin used EncroChat phones in an attempt to evade authorities

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat dealer 'boredgiraffe' made 'vast profits' trafficking multi-kilos of drugs

"We will continue to target anyone involved in serious organised crime to keep this positive momentum going"

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