Encrochat hack helped take Manc Joey gang off streets
Anthony Kamara, from Toxteth, was jailed today, the last member of a group who ran heroin and crack cocaine from Merseyside to Devon during lockdown
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Anthony Kamara was jailed for a County Lines drugs plot as part of the Manc Joey gang (Image: devon police)
A County Lines drugs gang who tried to hide their Merseyside roots by using the gang nickname Manc Joey were busted after police cracked their secret Encrochat phone messages.
The Manc Joey network operated out of Liverpool and ran hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of heroin and crack cocaine to Exeter during the first seven months of last year.
The scouse drug dealer who pretended to be Manc to fool police with his £300,000 Manc Joey county lines gang
The Manc Joey gang carried on dealing throughout the first lockdown and were caught because their activities were very obvious on deserted streets
Connor Wilbraham
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