Overview

• Leeds Crown Court convicted ten men for conspiring to import cannabis from California via the postal system.
• Investigators estimate the gang shipped more than 260 parcels of high-grade cannabis with a street value of about £800,000.
• Members used US Post Office branches with falsified customs forms declaring clothing and tracked packages through delivery apps.
• Eight defendants pleaded guilty and received custodial or suspended sentences while two—Jordan Lilliu and Daniel Kaye—were found guilty at trial and handed community orders.
• Detective Superintendent Al Burns praised UK-US law enforcement cooperation that exposed the plot and warned of the link between drug supply and wider violence.