Officers searched his home in St Ambrose Close, Anfield and found an EncroChat phone box, containing the password to the device, written on a piece of paper. They both supplied both Class A cocaine and Class B amphetamine. Anthony Connolly, 29, of Ellerman Road, Liverpool, was sentenced to 14 years and six months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin, conspiracy to supply cannabis, and conspiracy to possess/convert/acquire criminal property. Not so that of 14-year-old Mohammed Al-Gharani, nabbed in Pakistan. This was also to be served consecutively to the drugs tariff he was already in jail for. It operated on customised Android phones and, according to its website, provided "worry-free secure communications". READ MORE: EncroChat dealers planned to flood Merseyside with Class A drugs. The UK has arrested more than 1,500 suspects since European detectives cracked an encrypted messaging service 10 months ago used by criminals to organise major drug smuggling operations and gangland hits. Adam Dalby (Image: Essex Police) Golding was given 12 years in jail, while Thurgood was handed eight for being Golding right-hand man in the criminal network. 11 October 2022 - French Criminal Division of the Court of Cassation provided a landmark ruling on evidence from hacked EncroChat. He was jailed for 15 years and nine months. Both L. Wilkinson and Dalby was sentenced to six years and eight months. A video posted online by police showed officers entering the containers, AOC under investigation for Met Gala dress, Mother who killed her five children euthanised, The children left behind in Cuba's exodus, Alex Murdaugh's legal troubles are far from over, US sues Exxon over nooses found at Louisiana plant, Coded hidden note led to Italy mafia boss arrest. PARIS The police in Europe said Thursday they had arrested hundreds of people on suspicion of drug trafficking and other crimes after successfully hacking into an encrypted phone . D.Wilkinson was handed a four years and eight sentence, while Aldred was jailed for two years and eight months. His Encrochat handle was AtomicMantis and he was the first to be convicted on Merseyside as part of Operation Venetic. Police say many of the network's customers used the service to plot illicit schemes linked to drug dealing and, in some cases violence. Read about our approach to external linking. The drug dealer went by the alias 'SnowEmu' on the encrypted messaging service. Heron was arrested at his home in July this year and admitted conspiring to supply Class A and B drugs and possession of criminal property. Underworld banker Kevin Allan moved 1m of dirty cash for cocaine and cannabis bosses. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. But detectives swooped on the cocaine, heroin and cannabis dealer as he tried to cross the channel at Folkestone in Kent, on July 20, 2020. Can Nigeria's election result be overturned? READ MORE: EncroChat dealer 'Tamewelder' caught with ten kilos of cocaine and weed. The BBC's Tom Symonds is shown how a customised Android phone with EncroChat installed works, Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked, Dutch police start true crime podcast to catch killer, Street fighting in Bakhmut but Russia not in control, Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemore dies at 61, The children left behind in Cuba's mass exodus, Xi Jinping's power grab - and why it matters, Snow, Fire and Lights: Photos of the Week. EncroChat drug dealer Sean Moore also sold Covid 19 testing kits as a sideline during lockdown. Image: Merseyside Police. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. He used EncroChat under the name of 'Big Tyson'. Their capture followed a raid at the home of Paul Dillon, 32, a few months earlier on Tuesday, June 30, when police seized almost 30,000 in cash. EncroChat, which offered a secure mobile phone instant messaging service, was a "criminal marketplace" used by 60,000 people worldwide for coordinating the distribution of illicit goods, money . The Wirral crook - who had contacts in Portugal, Spain and Germany - shared details about his birthday and the dates of his father's death and funeral. He delivered at least 44 kilos of cocaine and stored hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash in his family home in Linkside Road. Michael Townsend,26, of Grant Road, Huyton was sentenced to six years in prison at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday, February 9. They were both then sentenced in connection to a gangland shooting in Warrington. Almost 800 people were arrested across the UK after French officials hacked the Encrochat platform enabling police to read text messages 10 The Salad Terrorist. Several Scots household names are said to have been rounded up after a major crackdown on the EncroChat phone encryption network, leading to multiple arrests. They revealed how the firm used a shell company in Panama and included an EncroChat member sharing the details of a bank account in Luxembourg with an associate for conducting EncroChat business. The 25-year-old, of Moss Way, Croxteth, sent text messages under the handle "LoadedSun" discussing the sale of 136,000 of cannabis. READ MORE: Block of Stilton cheese led to the downfall of EncroChat drug dealer. George Marsh - SneakyStem and WackySilver. Texts showed he discussed the sale of cocaine and heroin with an estimated wholesale value of 521,000, plus 193 kilos of cannabis, worth around 1m. The suspects were arrested on 22 June following a Franco-Dutch operation to infiltrate the EncroChat encrypted phone system. Paul Krusky played a crucial role in the development of encrypted phone firm EncroChat. Quinn used the EncroChat handle WiredFork. The huge operation has been taking place over the past three months with police seizing 13m of cash in London alone. READ MORE: 'Milliondolla' EncroChat user said he had cocaine 'coming out me ears'. Dozens of criminals embedded in Merseyside's underworld have been jailed after an international operation brought down EncroChat. He used the Encrochat handles Scantbee and Sandferret. Detectives identified the handprints of the 30-year-old, of Maud Street, Toxteth, on a photo he took showing him holding cannabis in his hand. READ MORE: Businessman was drug boss 'FastSilver' flogging Orange Cream, Stardog, Gelato and Jaffa. READ MORE: Encrochat 'Loadedsun' dealer jailed after returning from Spain, 35. Police also found a building in Rotterdam, which they believe was another criminal base. Sean Moore - TrustPilot and PrawnPilot. ", Liverpool transfer news LIVE - Jude Bellingham boost, Goncalo Inacio scouted, Moises Caicedo decision. Users of EncroChat were . READ MORE: Encrochat dealer 'Magiccider' busted after posing for photo with cannabis, 37. . The main target of the operation, according to the report, was a Canadian suspect called Paul K. Dillon and Keating also admitted conspiracy to transfer a firearm.. Keating was jailed for 22 years and five months; Dillon for 18 years; and Garforth for 15 years. Harding, who used the handle "MagicCider", sold heroin, cocaine and cannabis worth around 1.5million through the encrypted phone network. His Encrochat handle was ToffeeForce and he was identified after sharing an image on his Encro device of a block of cheese in the palm of his hand, from which his fingerprints were analysed. North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU) detectives launched an undercover surveillance operation in February 2020. Demand for ANOM from criminal groups also increased after European investigators announced the dismantlement of the EncroChat platform in July 2020. READ MORE: EncroChat dealer busted after being caught with 176kg caffeine haul. Dutch police said the containers were found before they were used, and potential victims were now in hiding. The identity of the crook who has adopted the name of the Reds' Brazilian shot stopper on the secret phone network remains a mystery. Major crime figures were among over 800 Europe-wide arrests after messages on EncroChat were intercepted and decoded. Jack Stanley Jones, 27, of Hey Park in Huyton, was sentenced to 16-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin, MDMA, cannabis and methamphetamine. After locating the containers in April in Wouwse Plantage, near the Belgian border, police put the area under observation and found that multiple men were working on them almost every day. Jordan Quinn, 31, of Valiant Close, West Derby, was sentenced to 14 years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin and ketamine and possession of criminal property. Jordan Hughes, 30, of Huyton, was sentenced to 12 years after pleading guilty to conspiring to supplying multi-kilos of heroin and cocaine. The insight into his life allowed detectives to match the messages of EncroChat codenames "SneakyStem" and "WackySilver" to the 33-year-old. That helped detectives link Holgate to an EncroChat profile with the handle LoftyWizard and the supply of more than 50kg of ketamine, to five different contacts. A group of lawyers representing defendants in EncroChat related cases recently published an open letter in which they said their clients have not received fair trials due to the intense secrecy around how French military police carried out the technical operation against EncroChat. He also pooled together with a group of other suppliers to source a mega-shipment of 100kg of cocaine through Hamburg in Germany. Daniel Wilson, 33, of Silverbeech Road, Wallasey, was sentenced to seven years and eight months after pleading guilty to supply cocaine, heroin and cannabis and conspiracy to convert criminal property in relation to the proceeds of his crimes. 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