A trio of drug dealers were hauled off a plane at Manchester Airport as they were about to fly to Ibiza. The three men, who hid behind the anonymous usernames "Mucky Mouth", "Frosty Finger" and "Wireless Dove", had tens of thousands of pounds and luxury watches seized from them after they were stopped.
Karlos Escoffery, David Bradley and Dylan Adams were among the latest criminals to be exposed by the law enforcement infiltration of the EncroChat communications network, often dubbed 'WhatsApp for criminals'.
They were found to have operated a secret "trade society" for the supply of heroin, cocaine, amphetamine and cannabis, the Echo reports.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that the trio "each ran their own businesses, acting as wholesalers or commodity brokers" but also acted in a "loose trade society" and would sell to one another, with the "direction in supply changing" between them regularly.
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