Dealers joked about getting complaints from mums of kids they employed to sell drugs
Drug dealers who used an encrypted system joked about getting complaints from the mothers of children they were using to supply cannabis on the streets. Tony McGarry, 36, Stefan Ingram, 33, and Stephen Warde, 38, were all arrested following the Europe-wide hack into the Encrochat system, a system used exclusively by members of organised crime groups to plan criminal activities, in June 2020.
From January 1 2020 to December 3 2020, they were in contact with at least 11 other high-level suppliers of drugs and mixing agents, and also used a ‘token’ system to control payments as well as to identify postcode locations and passwords when drugs and money were exchanged, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Ingram was ‘very much his right-hand man’, who was involved in couriering and storing the drugs, maintaining the ‘debtor list’, and providing instructions to others, including Warde. Over a six week period of the recovered messages, the group sourced six kilos of cocaine, seven kilos of heroin and 24 kilos of cannabis. They were also involved in the purchase of various adulterants and the movement of at least £200,000 cash.
In a message exchange between McGarry and Ingram, they discussed using kids to work selling drugs and they joked as to how they were waiting for phone calls from the kids’ mothers and Ingram made reference to ‘Mong Boy’ working in McGarry’s cannabis business.
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