EncroChat dealer made ecstasy pills shaped like Donald Trump
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA cocky EncroChat dealer pumped out ecstasy pills shaped like Donald Trump in a secret storage unit. Jay Roberts, of Nelson Road, Ellesmere Port, who bragged about his success, used the handle 'Ripebrow' on the encrypted messaging network.
During the Covid-19 lockdown, he used EncroChat to buy and sell cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, and cannabis. But the now 31-year-old didn't just buy in drugs - he used a storage unit to make his own using a pill press, the Liverpool Echo reports.
An image taken from a storage unit used by Roberts showed a press covered in blue powder where Roberts would manufacture ecstasy pills to dish out to his customers.
The pictures showed he pressed the pills into a variety of shapes and designs, including the logo of courier company UPS and the face of former US president Donald Trump. READ MORE: 'I helped two teenagers escape from a crashed car - then one grabbed a machete' Roberts was undone when detectives from Cheshire's serious and organised crime unit gained access to the EncroChat network after the encrypted messaging service was hacked in April 2020.
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