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EncroChat gang with nicknames 'Shinyegg' and 'Buttermoon' snared after moving over £1 million worth of drugs
23.02.2023 - 17:29 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A gang who used the encrypted platform EncroChat to move over £1 million worth of drugs have been jailed following a major police investigation. Twelve people will spend almost 100 years behind bars for various drugs offences.
Officers executed search warrants across Greater Manchester and Lancashire as part of Operation Barchetta, launched to target members of organised crime groups. After police accessed the Encrochat system, they had identified a group using the network to arrange and facilitate the wholesale supply of Class A and Class B drugs across Lancaster and Morecambe in 2020.
Encrochat is a European-based communications network and service provider which is used by organised crime groups to plan criminal activities by mobile telephone. Police then used the data to identify the users of the assigned EncroChat handles and piece together movements of the offenders which included the purchase, delivery, and supply of controlled drugs across Lancashire.
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Neil Arkwright, 38 and Phillip Jenkinson, 37, were identified by the inquiry team as the leaders of the group. Arkwright was found to be operating under the username ‘BUTTERMOON’, with Jenkinson acting as another profile under the name ‘WAVETROOPER’.
Other members of the group used handles including ‘ITCHYTOXIC’, ‘SHINYEGG’ and ‘MUTANTRABBIT’. Mark Boult, 61, Terry Peel, 50 and Adam Dawson, 27, were identified as trusted members of the group who were hands on in the movement of drugs and money working directly for Neil Arkwright and Phillip Jenkinson.
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