Overview
- Caernarfon Crown Court sentenced 11 people tied to Operation Scarab in Denbighshire, with ringleader Jake Kiernan jailed for eight years and seven months.
- Investigators seized £32,000 during a targeted M56 stop of Ryan Potts, and raids near Vale View Terrace in Rhyl recovered 1.3kg of cocaine and 1.6kg of ketamine.
- Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court jailed six members of the A1 drugs line for a total of 48 years, including 12 years for Abu Iqbal and nine years four months for Kyle Pattinson.
- The A1 operation ran from October 2020 to March 2022 using two phones to send tens of thousands of advertising messages to manage kilo-scale heroin and crack sales.
- Police searches in Hanley and Etruria recovered more than a kilogram of drugs, and a seventh defendant, Keiron Tonks, received a 16‑month sentence suspended for 18 months.