The group, who also trafficked heroin and cocaine across the border between England and Scotland, used the encrypted communication platform EncroChat to organise their criminal dealings.
Four organised crime gang members who ran an industrial scale amphetamine lab in Scotland have been convicted following a National Crime Agency sting.
In December 2020, Lancashire Police seized more than 560 kilos of alpha-phenylacetoacetamide - a chemical used in the production of amphetamine - from the group. EncroChat messages showed that Earle also oversaw the trafficking of heroin and cocaine from Scotland to Merseyside, and in the opposite direction, with the assistance of Lee Baxter, 48, of Huyton, Liverpool.Shortly afterwards Feerick was arrested as he drove a lorry southbound on the M6 motorway and officers discovered a holdall, which was found to contain 2.9 kilos of heroin worth £300,000 and £20,000 in cash.
The men are due to be sentenced on 18 January 2023. The NCA’s investigation formed part of Operation Venetic, the UK NCA-led law enforcement response to the takedown of the EncroChat service in July 2020.
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