Three people from the Greater Manchester area have been jailed today for their part in a so called ‘Breaking bad’ gang who imported drugs from Europe to their Darwen headquarters
Ashley Morris, 31, of Waters Edge, Middleton, was two years and six months for conspiring to supply amphetamine and cannabis.
John Cropper, 45, of Roseway Avenue, Cadishead was jailed for two years and eight months for conspiring to supply amphetamine and Anthony Richardson, 38, of Mackenzie Street, Bolton was jailed for three years and four months for conspiring to supply amphetamine.
Footage from inside the group’s operating base showed OCG members putting on forensic suits to weigh out and cut in excess of 200 kilos of amphetamine with mixing agents to be sold all over the North and South of England.
The cameras also captured huge quantities of cannabis in black bin liners being dropped off at the unit in Hollins Grove Mill, Darwen, to be packaged and sold on via a network of the OCG’s street dealers.
The investigation, which falls under Operation Warrior – started in 2021 after Lancashire police attributed encrypted mobile phones to gang leader Zac Deaffern and co-defendant John Rowe.
That pair were jailed along with a number of others last month for a total of more than 30 years.
