An organised crime group (OCG) who used encrypted phones and set up a fake healthcare company so they could run their drug-dealing empire during the Covid pandemic have been jailed for more than 70 years

Although they didn’t know it at the time, the beginning of the end for the OCG came on May 1, 2020. That was when defendant and OCG kingpin Kurt Bradshaw was observed by our officers behaving suspiciously when they pulled up behind his Volkswagen Scirocco in Blackpool.

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When the vehicle was searched, we found a large amount of cannabis in bin liners and an iPhone.