A trio of men who brought 'high purity' cocaine to the streets have been handed more than a decade of jailtime between them.
Stephen Sumner, Nicholas Waine and Simon Shaw transported roughly £40,000 worth of class A drugs into Fleetwood, Lancashire, from Greater Manchester last autumn when they were arrested.
The police investigation - named Operation Bergen - kept the criminals under surveillance. Eventually, the three men were caught after their van was stopped on the M61 near Rivington.
Cops recovered half a kilo of high purity cocaine and took out of circulation, LancsLive reports. READ MORE: Tesco issues urgent 'do not eat' frozen food warning On November 4 last year, Fleetwood man Stephen Sumner arranged for his courier Simon Shaw to travel to Manchester and collect drugs from supplier Nicholas Waine.
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