Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter A drug supplier who used communications service EncroChat to discuss sailing hundreds of kilograms of cocaine across the Atlantic was unmasked after police found his Costco membership.
Michael Devine, 45, used the ‘shadowy’ service to chat about international importation runs from Colombia, St Lucia and Brazil.
He was revealed to be the criminal behind the codenames 'lawfularbor' and 'mixedtree' by detectives who found messages linking him to a Costco account, his car and love of poker. READ MORE: Two women arrested after protesters shut down factory Devine, from Liverpool,, was sentenced to 17 years and three months in jail after Liverpool Crown Court
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