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28.01.2022 - 12:06 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A county lines "kingpin" had one of his drug mules dress a dapper commuter going to work to avoid being caught.
Shaun Doyle, 27, was the head of a Merseyside organised crime ring which supplied heroin and crack cocaine to users during a seven-month period in 2019 and early 2020.
Doyle came to the attention of police in August 2019 when he was found with £12,000 worth of crack cocaine inside his trousers while he was in the passenger seat of a rental car.
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The ECHO reports that as detectives dismantled the conspiracy, they learned Doyle was in control of a “drug line” phone from which “text flares” were sent to advertise the availability of heroin and crack cocaine to multiple users at a time.
At Carlisle Crown Court on Thursday, January 27, prosecutor Julian Goode said: “Drug users would then contact the number and be redirected to a particular location where a street dealer would hand them the drugs in exchange for money."
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Acting as those street dealers were three West Cumbria residents — James Postlethwaite, 46, and Karen Pullin, 37, both of Senhouse Street, Maryport; along with 38-year-old Paula Jackson, of Co-Operative Terrace, Flimby.
Above them in the criminal chain of command was Doyle’s trusted right hand man Jacob Hughes-O’Brien, 27, of Altfinch Close, Stockbridge Village, who was caught by police with £40,000 worth of illicit substances at a Harrington safe house in November, 2019; and courier Thomas Jameson, 29, of
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