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UK: Drugs gang caught by listening devices

Northants Evening Telegraph

Thursday 27 Oct 2011

A gang of men were caught by police cutting up nearly £40,000 worth of cannabis in a garden shed after officers used bugging devices to listen in to their operation.

Cousins Liam, Sam and Danny Stray and accomplice David Wood agreed to help convicted criminal Harry Beddoes cut up the drug haul for distribution on August 11 last year.

But the five offenders were unaware they were being listened to by police who had planted listening devices in cars known to have been used by Beddoes.

After revealing they were heading to Sam Stray’s former home in Compton Way, Earls Barton, police swooped on the five and caught them cutting 5.65kg of cannabis in a shed.

At Northampton Crown Court yesterday, four of the men were jailed for a combined total of 10 and a half years after pleading guilty to possession of the drug with intent to supply.

Wood, 34 of Owens Meadow, Wellingborough, received a four-and-a-half year prison sentence after also admitting to possessing 80 grams of coke, a small amount of C class drugs and a gas cannister in his home.

Liam Stray, 33, of Blackwell Close, Earls Barton, received a two-and-a-half year prison sentence, Danny Stray, 23, of Sassoon Close, Wellingborough, received two years and Sam Stray, 29, of Scotney Close, Northampton, received 18 months.

Beddoes, 25, of Henshaw Road,Wellingborough, got a three-year jail sentence for possession of cannabis with intent to supply at a hearing in April.

At the hearing yesterday, James Thomas, prosecuting, said the cannabis had been stolen in a burglary committed by Beddoes one or two days prior.

He said after police listened in to the group's plan, officers were dispatched to Compton Way at 5.20pm where they found the five men in a shed with the cannabis.

Mitigating, the defendants' solicitors played down their clients' roles in the operation, each marking out Beddoes as the leader.

Judge Richard Bray said: "The role of each of you was significant as you were preparing a large quantity of drugs in a home-made drug factory for distribution. It has to be said that cannabis is not just some social drug, it has the potential to cause serious damage and mental health problems."

http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/local/drugs_gang_caught_by_listening_devices_1_3185221

 

 

 

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