A drugs gang ring-leader and two lottery-winning fraudsters are just three of the offenders who have been locked up in our region this week.
The courts also dealt with a jealous ex-boyfriend who attacked his love rival, a crook who robbed a pawnbrokers to buy drones and a pervert caught with indecent images of children.
Prison sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious cases. The ringleader of 'Gucci line' crack and cocaine gang found with almost £15,000 worth of drugs in car The ringleader of a 'highly lucrative' drugs ring which flooded the streets of Bury with heroin and cocaine has been jailed.
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