A major £1.4m drugs operation was cracked after a dealer's mum was caught 'red handed' sitting on a bed next to a pile of cash.
Officers discovered nearly £500,000 of cash when they raided the home of couple Ian Shacklady and Gillian Melville, the Liverpool Echo reports.
But this was just the 'tip of the iceberg', a court heard, and their son Alan Causer was revealed to have led an organised crime group responsible for trafficking hundreds of kilos of heroin and cocaine across the country.
A van used by the group was caught making trips to Manchester from Merseyside, as well as to Huyton, Grimsby, Derby, Nottingham and the Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland and Darlington areas of County Durham.
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