Crime gang posed as workmen digging up street to supply power to £21m cannabis operation
A drugs gang disguised themselves as workmen to dig up streets to help protect a £21m cannabis operation across the UK.
They posed as engineers to dig up streets in Lancashire and power cannabis farms
On 8 February 2024, coordinated strikes took place across the North West and North East to arrest the 10 members of the crime group. At the company's business address in Wigan, police seized various ...
Gang looked like normal workers in uniform - but their disguises hid sinister motive
A gang hid their sinister exploits by pretending to be a normal work crew, but they were splicing off electricity for ...
Men working in hi-vis exposed as 'highly sophisticated and dangerous' crime gang
Police discovered a huge scam stretching almost the entire country after residents noticed men in hi-vis jackets coming and ...
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Gang posed as electricity workers to power cannabis farms jailed after 'one of its kind' investigation
Criminals who posed as legitimate electric workers to dig up cables and abstract millions of pounds worth of power for ...
"Class B drugs?" Drug dealing dad feigns shock as cops investigating cannabis supply racket raid his home
Ross McGinn ran the company Elev8 with Andrew Roberts, splicing electricity from the national grid to power a network of drug ...
They looked like normal workers digging up roads - they were anything but
Ashurst, Black, Charles, Doran and Sherry were all groundworkers for the OCG, responsible for digging up the roads to expose ...
They looked like normal workies, but their uniforms disguised true sinister intentions
To the untrained eye, they were like any normal groundwork crew carrying out jobs on everyday residential streets. Turning up ...
Dad's 'confused' question to police when they raided his home
Ross McGinn ran the company Elev8 with Andrew Roberts, splicing electricity from the national grid to power a network of drug farms ...
True scale of massive 100-farm cannabis conspiracy emerges after raids on Bangor High Street
Eight men have been jailed for their roles in a massive cannabis-growing operation uncovered after a series of drugs busts in ...
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Men fronted fake company to divert electricity for cannabis farms
The Crown Prosecution Service’s case against the men spanned a period of three years and encompassed 54 instances were the gang had illegally diverted electricity to cannabis farms up and down the ...