How Uk police put surveillance on a multi million drug gang and seized 50 kilos on the motorway

On 11 May 2023, they used courier Anthony Warhurst to pick up 50kg from a port in Harwich, Essex which had come in on a shipment from Holland. On his way back to the North West, officers stopped him on the motorway where he was arrested with the drugs which had a street value of more than £5 million pounds. Officers were able to evidence that Warhurst had made multiple trips to Harwich on the direction on Stephens and Buller, who were arrested later that day. Stephens and Buller have been evidenced distributing approximately 230kg of Cocaine during the conspiracy period with a street value of over £23 million pounds.
As a result of Operation Matrix, a NWROCU investigation into the multi-kilo importation and distribution of Class A drugs throughout the UK, nine of the defendants entered guilty pleas last year, and the one remaining, Scott Owen was convicted on 25 January 2024 following a trial.
The investigation began in March 2022 when Cumbria Police asked NWROCU detectives for help in bringing down a local drug dealer, Reece Barnes, who was responsible for selling cocaine in the Windermere area.
Detectives monitored his whereabouts and gathered evidence of his meetings in country lanes with Cheshire-based OCG Stephen Stockall, where he would trade kilogramme quantities of cocaine for £30,000 in cash.
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  • @walkaz
    @walkaz2 ай бұрын

    Wonder how much went missing between the m6 and cop station

  • @empty-ed

    @empty-ed

    2 ай бұрын

    Who cares mate ?

  • @zedng6498
    @zedng64982 ай бұрын

    All this effort to take drugs off the street that the flithy rich stiĺl wanna comsume its pointless.

  • @roni2977

    @roni2977

    2 ай бұрын

    They'll still pass it on to the rich.. I don't believe they destroy them..

  • @skullgraff6349

    @skullgraff6349

    2 ай бұрын

    You two are gonna be poor for a long time😂 what a conversation 😂😂😂blaming rich 😂😂😂

  • @X.R.808

    @X.R.808

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@skullgraff6349 you really think all this 'war on drugs' is because it's harmful to consumers? 😂

  • @DaveSCameron

    @DaveSCameron

    2 ай бұрын

    Not just the rich , same as ale prohibition it always fails! @UKLEAP

  • @greengemaudio4830

    @greengemaudio4830

    2 ай бұрын

    @@roni2977 I absolutely agree, they waste our tax money chasing people who grow plants and even worse give it to private companies through prescriptions. Theresa May's husband has a company that sells it.

  • @kellylynch8914
    @kellylynch89142 ай бұрын

    Multi millions taken away , Big droughts, Now that's a scarcity 😮

  • @tinacook2171
    @tinacook21712 ай бұрын

    Cheers for the up dates

  • @fistingendakenny8781
    @fistingendakenny87812 ай бұрын

    One of the few channels speaking truth

  • @MrB1923

    @MrB1923

    2 ай бұрын

    He just repeats police statements and news reports. 🤷‍♂️

  • @greentroll9326
    @greentroll93262 ай бұрын

    not even scatched the surface of the amount coming in each week

  • @chiefrocka8604
    @chiefrocka86042 ай бұрын

    Doorman here , got told the city centre cctv has face recognition and tech that knows you’re their by your phone signal and can link your face and phone to a cctv camera .

  • @OH2023-cj9if

    @OH2023-cj9if

    2 ай бұрын

    Liverpool had that in shopping centres 20years ago to track people and for advertising.

  • @bySoundz
    @bySoundz2 ай бұрын

    These guys getting the same amount of years as some murderers is what’s wrong with the law in this country 🤦‍♂️

  • @dWFnZWVr

    @dWFnZWVr

    2 ай бұрын

    They haven’t. Murder is fixed by law in the UK to life imprisonment. I presume you’re thinking of the minimum tariff where an individual can be eligible for release on license; even in such cases they are not free, their conditions are strict, and they remain on license for life subject to recall at any time.

  • @adamadan7173

    @adamadan7173

    2 ай бұрын

    They only doing half, so 11 is 5 and half years. Murderers have to do 20+ years behind the door.

  • @tb3616

    @tb3616

    2 ай бұрын

    @@dWFnZWVr huh in the UK murder is not life imprisonment

  • @tb3616

    @tb3616

    2 ай бұрын

    @@adamadan7173 you don’t do half for sentences of that length

  • @dWFnZWVr

    @dWFnZWVr

    2 ай бұрын

    @@tb3616 It is; it’s fixed by law. Look at the sentencing council guidelines (they’re available online). It’s split into two tariffs: the minimum term order and the whole life order. The former enables the individual to apply for release on license to the parole board after they’ve served their minimum term. The sentence is still life - those that are released on license remain so until the end of their natural life; subject to recall at any time.

  • @yourlocalbossman1359
    @yourlocalbossman13592 ай бұрын

    Where do you think the drugs and evidence collected goes? Back on the streets 🤣. People need to understand, if nobody’s committing crime then police have no jobs.

  • @Herfortz
    @Herfortz2 ай бұрын

    Awesome reporting here.

  • @ScarcityStudios

    @ScarcityStudios

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks bro

  • @Tnz69
    @Tnz692 ай бұрын

    Usual suspects

  • @aliorr9356

    @aliorr9356

    2 ай бұрын

    The Portuguese?

  • @kishormohammad1176
    @kishormohammad11762 ай бұрын

    Can't be asked to get a minimum pay job like the good honest citizens

  • @billboy8062

    @billboy8062

    2 ай бұрын

    Not worth it life is to experience now

  • @bradleywilson5641

    @bradleywilson5641

    2 ай бұрын

    Exactly just lost the next 20 years of his life for fancy holidays watches and clothes can’t even buy a legit house with cash it’s pointless there high up drug dealers still living on council estates or in hotels it’s pointless you don’t see many hight up in there 60+ it’s pointless 🤣

  • @DogScreenTV
    @DogScreenTV2 ай бұрын

    50kg is a drop in the ocean. These guys bring in tonnes

  • @kishormohammad1176
    @kishormohammad11762 ай бұрын

    I work for £5 an hour and a pound per each delivery I do taking southern fried chicken and pizzas all for a £1 per delivery . I dont sympathise with these scum of the earth ! Glad I have no greed or love for money

  • @dot680

    @dot680

    2 ай бұрын

    You deliver heart attacks and obesity, to people too lazy to walk to buy junk food! Who are you do judge?! LOL. You deliver people what they want, and so do these guys. Don't be a hypocrite.

  • @amzzcaan4347

    @amzzcaan4347

    2 ай бұрын

    Reading that I don’t blame these guys

  • @PaulWalshp-wx4in

    @PaulWalshp-wx4in

    2 ай бұрын

    MORE CONT YOU KIDDA WHO YOU TOO JUDGE

  • @Notifications485

    @Notifications485

    2 ай бұрын

    Bros happy he’s living in poverty 😂😂😂 that’s crazy

  • @dot680

    @dot680

    2 ай бұрын

    You deliver junk food and an even more addictive white powder, sugar. You're a hypocrite.

  • @marklittler784
    @marklittler7842 ай бұрын

    Most people's front seats would have the unpaid gas and electric bill underneath 😅

  • @nathan61522
    @nathan615222 ай бұрын

    all I'm thinking on this one is that everyone who owed money will be happy 😅😂

  • @silky567
    @silky5672 ай бұрын

    Whats the point,those dtugs will soon be bk on the street....

  • @StoneCold_
    @StoneCold_2 ай бұрын

    big sting that

  • @mcpinball1
    @mcpinball12 ай бұрын

    That Sh*t Shuts Down The Local Dentist 🦷 !+)

  • @keekeelion
    @keekeelion2 ай бұрын

    The usual criminals

  • @PKSE15
    @PKSE152 ай бұрын

    ffs there go our Doctors and Engineers no wonder the NHS cant cope

  • @DJDAVINCI
    @DJDAVINCI2 ай бұрын

    Make it legal and stop the nonsense.

  • @Jako6123

    @Jako6123

    2 ай бұрын

    Then where will your income come from ?

  • @Ash-dz5in

    @Ash-dz5in

    2 ай бұрын

    The illegal drug trade is worth roughly 9.4 billion a year to the UK economy, to be fair its probably way higher than that

  • @truelightoutdoors8450

    @truelightoutdoors8450

    2 ай бұрын

    They are due to that's exactly why they are putting in so much effort

  • @SaulGoodman399
    @SaulGoodman3992 ай бұрын

    New intro ⁉️

  • @empty-ed
    @empty-ed2 ай бұрын

    This is called pure GRASSIN THEY ALL GRASS

  • @incognito96
    @incognito962 ай бұрын

    Oh look indigenous citizens, no silly racial comments on this one. Amazing.

  • @51aberkshire

    @51aberkshire

    2 ай бұрын

    They may be retards but at least they're our retards.

  • @r3h4n786

    @r3h4n786

    2 ай бұрын

    Yea since they arent asian the usual c*nts have disappeared 😆

  • @pilotanimal192
    @pilotanimal192Күн бұрын

    Now if they had sniffer dogs out all the time most of this crap wouldn't get hear , or is that to simple . ?????

  • @1978JonBullock
    @1978JonBullock2 ай бұрын

    The problem now days for anyone involved in crime is that if you use any phone/device to conduct your business the police have access to even some encrypted information and once they obtain one device involved in the running of anything illegal they have the means and knowhow to link others involved in the conspiracy.

  • @jenniferindigochameleon6680

    @jenniferindigochameleon6680

    2 ай бұрын

    Sherlock has cracked it over here

  • @theboss9218
    @theboss92182 ай бұрын

    That amount of drugs always have 5 cars to block the police if police try to stop then pass to others cars to make them confuse not hard

  • @X.R.808

    @X.R.808

    2 ай бұрын

    You sound like a 9 year old who thinks this is some GTA sh*t 🤦‍♂️

  • @Elzerry

    @Elzerry

    2 ай бұрын

    🚁

  • @gdcodurham.

    @gdcodurham.

    2 ай бұрын

    Been watching to many films

  • @X.R.808

    @X.R.808

    2 ай бұрын

    @@gdcodurham. As I said (before my reply got removed): sounds like a 9 year old who thinks this is GTA

  • @brendandarkside1207
    @brendandarkside12072 ай бұрын

    If they really wanted to police could help by testing the purity and adding extra charges accordingly

  • @Time_is_money43
    @Time_is_money432 ай бұрын

    These cocaine dealers make alot of money

  • @Jack-gn4gl

    @Jack-gn4gl

    2 ай бұрын

    5000 an ounce in Australia.......according to a friend

  • @resist.
    @resist.2 ай бұрын

    a few of then got a touch

  • @twes5563
    @twes55632 ай бұрын

    Bro your about a week late on this news have u been sleeping 😴

  • @Wibble-zv3cs
    @Wibble-zv3cs2 ай бұрын

    Some would say the time is worth the crime considering the money involved

  • @christaylor3911

    @christaylor3911

    2 ай бұрын

    Na fuck that, you seen the bird handed out to these? 😂

  • @lewisgreenhalgh7546

    @lewisgreenhalgh7546

    2 ай бұрын

    I know Buller the lad due to be sentenced next month. He's probably getting a 20. He's 47 or 48 now, just had a new baby before he went on remand. Life over. Not worth it.

  • @marklittler784
    @marklittler7842 ай бұрын

    Serious impact...I know what John McEnroe would say.......😅😅😅

  • @drewreynolds1649
    @drewreynolds16492 ай бұрын

    Cost off living expenses so lives hard

  • @Cherismile
    @Cherismile2 ай бұрын

    My goodness...is this the police doing there job???

  • @adanroberts7196
    @adanroberts71962 ай бұрын

    they got arrested by the real criminals

  • @sjukbasketball8498
    @sjukbasketball84982 ай бұрын

    Hilarious how people still think the police skim off the top with money 😂 they get in trouble for swearing at criminals let alone skimming money

  • @empty-ed
    @empty-ed2 ай бұрын

    I love BEAK ❤❤❤

  • @Mohammedali78170
    @Mohammedali781702 ай бұрын

    I could do 9 yrs standing in the canteen cue or exercise.

  • @davidhopkins848
    @davidhopkins8482 ай бұрын

    Legalise

  • @ravikhan732
    @ravikhan7322 ай бұрын

    Snitch city I'm your number 1 fan please sign this statement 😊😊😊

  • @monkeyfunk8371

    @monkeyfunk8371

    2 ай бұрын

    desperate for attention? get a dog

  • @DaveSCameron

    @DaveSCameron

    2 ай бұрын

    🐷

  • @letsavittvbirminghamuk9688
    @letsavittvbirminghamuk96882 ай бұрын

    Why are people still using cars to transport goods why not split it between 3 cars can only stop one or use motorbikes ffs all eggs in one basket no good

  • @DaveSCameron
    @DaveSCameron2 ай бұрын

    If anyone is surprised you are a fool!😊

  • @davidhopkins848
    @davidhopkins8482 ай бұрын

    Legalise narcotics

  • @ringo4419
    @ringo44192 ай бұрын

    Oops 😂

  • @user-il8ub9nm5q
    @user-il8ub9nm5qАй бұрын

    Its mostly always the white guys behind the scenes

  • @Noyoudidnt8304
    @Noyoudidnt83042 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @omadjourney
    @omadjourney2 ай бұрын

    The usual suspects lol.

  • @user-hj5qw9rz6u
    @user-hj5qw9rz6u2 ай бұрын

    😮

  • @damongt4
    @damongt42 ай бұрын

    Balding head 😂

  • @whatsmynameagain7774
    @whatsmynameagain77742 ай бұрын

    Organised crime? I didnt know they were politicians.

  • @adamadan7173
    @adamadan71732 ай бұрын

    Usual suspects