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07.10.2022 - 08:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A family man who was leading a double life as a drug ‘broker’ months after being released from prison had his secret uncovered when police cracked encrypted messages. Joseph McCormick, 41, acting under the username ‘Butternoon’ organised the buying and selling of 16 kilos of class A drugs.
In encrypted messages with other users, he was in charge of organising payments and the moving of ‘wholesale quantities’ heroin and cocaine between safe houses. His offending was brought to light following a Europe-wide police hack into the Encrochat system, which was used exclusively by members of organised crime groups to plan criminal acts.
McCormick, of Openshaw, pleaded guilty to two offences of conspiracy to supply class A drugs, failure to comply with a Serious Crime Prevention Order and possession of criminal property.
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Prosecuting, Brian Berlyne told Manchester Crown Court that following the penetration of the system by French authorities, around 9,000 people in the UK have been arrested, and 15,000 arrested worldwide.
Messages were uncovered between ‘Butternoon’ and others, and police later identified the account as McCormick. In one exchange with a user called “Royalchunk”, they said they had obtained heroin, and McCormick asked for half a kilo of the drug on behalf of an ‘associate’.
“He arranged meetings between their mutual associates and a debtors list was handed over,” Mr Berlyne said.
“In another exchange on March 31, messages from the defendant presented the arranging of purchasing at least one-and-a-half kilos of a drug believed to be cocaine in exchange for £40,000.”
In further exchanges with ‘Royalchunk’, McCormick arranged for the buying of a small
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