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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 · Dec 25, 2022

'RigidForce' and 'CliffsHard' EncroChat dealers unmasked

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

Liverpool Echo · Dec 16, 2022

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 · Dec 16, 2022

£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 · Dec 6, 2022

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 · Dec 6, 2022

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 · Dec 5, 2022

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 · Dec 2, 2022

'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 · Dec 1, 2022

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 · Nov 28, 2022

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.

Daily Record · Nov 28, 2022