Members of a gang that trafficked the drugs have been jailed for a combined total of 165 years
Christopher Reeve headed the gang and arranged for their supply from the Bickerstaffe area in West Lancs and from Liverpool. A court heard how his partner Sarah Reeve would step in to run the operation when he was not available.
Christopher Reeve and Thompson employed couriers – including Thomas Bash, Lewis Mowat and David Burdett – to carry out supply runs across county borders. Officers analysed phone records that showed more than 14,000 communications took place between Reeve and the other defendants. On August 3 2018, Sarah Reeve and Mowat set off from Liverpool with 3kg of high-purity cocaine in their car. Officers uncovered CCTV of them stopping for breakfast at McDonald's and passing through the M6 toll road.
Combined, it had a street value in excess of £830,000. Significant quantities of mixing and bulking agents were also recovered, along with a number of shotgun cartridges.
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