Operation Matrix - Takedown of a £53 million drug empire

Watch how our NWROCU detectives investigated a Windermere drug dealer using a storage unit which led to the takedown of 3 OCG’s operating in Cheshire, Cumbria and Manchester.

[@uncontrollable343]

Why is that no matter what level of drug dealer you are, the JD sports bag is always an essential item.

[@potatoface01]

I hate people who take drugs..... especially the police and customs 😮😮

[@araf578]

Thanks for keeping our streets safe.

[@humourless682]

Must have fallen out with the senior police, who had kept them safe for so long, and shared in the profits.........................

[@tl9223]

Do you really believe this 😂

[@theelephant7171]

It’s not that, it’s a way of staying free

[@modernmolosser7812]

💯💯💯

[@Kalus_Saxon]

5:30 except they don’t break it down to street deals so would never earn that much and you don’t factor in the people below them bulking it up before dishing it out… It’s like when you say weed plant produce 500 grams per plant when a normal 3ft plant your doing good if you end up with 72grams when dry… Why don’t you exaggerate the grooming gang figures in the same way..? Or knife crime..?

[@petervankas1352]

👍

[@mysteryY2K]

seeing these dudes arrest dealers without using guns is wild to me as an american

[@arthurdennis3063]

50 mill my arse.

[@witwolfdebruin]

Great work guys !!!! Hats off to all the hard work done .....

[@stighelmer1265]

A drug dealer called Steven Stockall?

[@walter3433]

Thanks police! From : the other drug gangs

[@ozbolli]

Well done guys. Right at the top.

[@helentucker6407]

Wow, the beautiful lake district! Interesting to watch 👍

[@HdHd-hp6qz]

That’s a weekends find. That’s nothing on the grand scheme of things

[@Mrsdingers-cc1jp]

Top stuff lad 😅 new subbie ere

[@mac1975]

Great work team

[@charliesw1234]

great work and all, but what effect did it actually have? you have now just left a void to be filled by some nastier more violent dealer, congrats I guess? Did the drug supply get interrupted more than a few days? how much tax payer money was spent on this investigation?

[@jmw-qt2ih]

What do you suggest the police do then?

[@BigCigz28]

Nobody who picks up 50kg at a time is selling street level they are selling whole sale. You guys love making up numbers

[@kieranreid31]

Exactly what i thought still alot of money though

[@123shotas]

Fine English lads representing UK 😂

[@grahamking4280]

Just shows how many are taking drugs

[@kanedNunable]

meanwhile the met guard the tories' illegal coke parties.

[@brokens1097]

Isn't loss of tea privileges one of the harshest punishments in prison there?

[@lemmy9996]

Good work boys!!!!👍👍

[@boxtie]

Excellent.

[@pjg_77]

Nice content, good job people

[@franc9111]

As these large amounts of drugs were coming in from Portugal and the Netherlands was there any co-operation with the policing authorities in those two countries ? One would hope that this particular operation might in some way have resulted in further arrests over there. I think it's long been known that drugs from Latin America come mainly to Europe either through Amsterdam and Antwerp or through Spain and Portugal.

[@bazzlegee299]

The courier whia been nicked with the 50kgs is defo going to have a bounty on his heqd and gonna go missing permanenlty

[@heroinwithease]

And now someone has taken their place 😂

[@lewisdeanclark4091]

The circle of life?

[@tomjones6106]

bloody hell mate, 30k in a JD bag., 2 years of my life in a JD bag. Nice

[@seanstewart8942]

Its gets better mate, that's not even a year for me 😊 work pays off 👍

[@lewisdeanclark4091]

Earn more in 8 month delivering fuel doing 4 on 4 off mate

[@StevieMc1971]

@@lewisdeanclark4091grand a week fella not too shabby

[@cultoftranquility9616]

Just taking out some competition?

[@user-df3sk3ey6p]

well done lads, now that is policing

[@Dontbeamenace1984]

Notice the 3rd off the sentence. Every1 else got 12 apart from 1 guy lol

[@Simul4tion]

the higher the weight is the heighest chance it is to get caught. this is simple logic.

[@Bri-254]

Mugs Game.

[@NoHeartAnthony]

Dunno. Those sentences are pretty light. Most will do less than 6 years. If they have 600 bags hidden away somewhere it’s worth while. Looking at the state of them though that’s probably a stretch…

[@liszaf3976]

Good to see the positive things that the police do for a change, to all the negativity!

[@charliecook-pt6gu]

i bet this officer is good on night operations with camouflage like that.

[@user-je9gs7we1q]

Long time in jail , i wonder who's really behind the drug laws and why , please do some research into this dig deep they like to hide their involvement.

[@VICKVICKI]

WOW I remember a key was just$12.5

[@benjaminblakemore9704]

WOOOWWW 😂 GREAT EFFORT 👌 BOYS IN BLUE WOW!!!

[@nickcoppard5335]

Naughty blighters !

[@hbpw857]

Yet its still overrun and ruining people’s lives

[@K_Z_R]

My American mind cannot fathom how there are NOT 10,000 guns in his face at the 5:00 mark

[@johjohn8744]

Americans are thick. Thats why

[@ChrisOld-of1hd]

What a surprise

[@dashdashdash_]

Doesn't really stop anything though does it, good job on wasting public resources whilst doing very little, the lines will be up by next week again...a story as old as time.

[@szkielet1026]

This is a great success for the police, but British courts give very low penalties. How do you want to scare away the next bandits in the criminal queue?

[@untouchableali]

That is a naughty haul 🎉🎉

[@Theirishghost.]

Only bout a zip in that shoe box 😅

[@BossImports]

Haha top job lads Getting rid of my competition 😉

[@lenordchristopher6447]

Never paid the police enough

[@notme1345]

Nothing but a drop in the ocean

[@BUGZYBEATS]

Imagine if they got caught in Dubai

[@act.v9449]

Have a nice lay down boys.

[@trevoror8668]

What a cwazy world when you know the history of who started the drug trade all them year's ago and who is running things out of south America or at least are well said all the way to the top of the biggest tree's on earth to nice little tax havens on lovely sunny island's lucky men so far up them trees no one can see them

[@user-gm6tm7lh7t]

Bullshit prices 50 kilos these days 25000/30000 depends how raw selling £32000 not what these police saying i used be in game years ago

[@mikematthews6095]

Proceeds of crime. The business is worth 35-50 million. Should get some sheckles back.

[@EmergencyElectrician-yq8xh]

All had light sentences expect buller

[@mickclarke8749]

No kilos of coke in dat shoe hbox

[@tomjones6106]

Crime pays

[@MrOneDaOne]

It’s only worth that much money coz it’s illegal if it was legalised and regulated it would be the same price as sugar ! If u was truly ‘public servants’ u would actually serve the public’s needs, clearly a lot of people want to take it, that is never going to change, if it was as cheap as sugar then addicts wouldn’t need to commit crimes to fund their habits would they, legalise it and all the problems surrounding it will be solved instantly

[@IgorCrazy-pr7xv]

Everyone being hooked on Drugs ain’t gonna end well.

[@robbrown6873]

Bright.as.a.2.watt.lite.bulb😮

[@Nothing2SeeTv]

Operation matrix u know

[@Yes-xr1gx]

Just one thing led to 50 million bust

[@johjohn8744]

The martrix is all around us neo

[@harryjones5260]

What is even more startling, disturbing and relevant, is that nobody has so far looked at the recurrence of serious reckless crime in the North, and attempted to address the root causes. Its no coincidence that the first regional crime squad was set up in the North West, and perhaps we should wonder why the area still fosters some of the most serious and reckless criminals. The reason, which has of course been overlooked, even by those who claim their profession to be 'intelligence', is that for a couple of centuries now, the populations of the North West have been poisoned by the corrupt, greedy, selfish actions of their wider societal hierarchy, in its headlong greedy grab for wealth and power, has left the environment and infrastructure so tainted by industrial contaminants, and in the last half century, add to that the radioactive pollution from Sellafield, and the continuous leaching from Victorian lead pipes into the domestic water supply, you are actually dealing with a national scandal of artificially induced brain damage; you are forcing every next generation of your own society, your own species, to inhabit damaged 'containers', and then you try and shut the stable door, by some lip service actions against the victims of your own greedy corruptions. You might just as well wait outside the handicapped school with your spike strip.

[@BLUEZz73]

😲😢😭😬

[@andrewo6890]

No comment.

[@malcolmtill]

What a fantastic piece of work by all concerned. Just a shame that they'll get out in roughly half the term they where given.

[@leeduncan8764]

Two thirds on a sentence like that pal, so that should cheer u up a bit. Knowing that they are languishing in jail good bit longer than you thought😂😂

[@lewisdeanclark4091]

​@@leeduncan8764not unless it's for guns or violence. For drugs it's only half

[@leeduncan8764]

@@lewisdeanclark4091 what country? In a proper place its decided on length of sentence not on type of crime

[@peterbennpan7288]

No she did not

[@empty-ed]

It’s worth the risk . 1 million or do 6 years in jail ❤

[@uncontrollable343]

I’d rather make half a million legally over that 6 years working my job and keep my freedom. Stay in school kids.

[@dsy6238]

@@uncontrollable343 90k a year after tax? yeah I think anybody would mate... but in this economy it takes 20/30 years to make that.

[@treyakasprings]

Matey you sit in jail in a cell 23 hrs a day & say that after a week !!!

[@Ashtrixal]

"Escape the matrix"

[@Urconnect]

I guees im the only comment for now.

[@user-hx7hw9ro4u]

The police admire tate so much 😂

[@Heremenow497]

Snitches get stitches 😉🫣

[@corruptedMegabit]

it's nice to see a bit of justice actually be carried out

[@John-eo4zm]

Gangnam Style

[@saffy4352]

The sentences are nice

[@Ianlfcm3]

50 keys You can kiss the baby!!

[@MichealPorter-hq1tq]

😅

[@MizanurRahman-kc7pw]

Why is it always £5000 missing 😂😂😂 everyone knows

[@Pz_23_yi]

Gutted boyoss bit silly moving that much in a car. Probs best getting on the train with ur 50keys bro 😂😂😂haha

[@MrOneDaOne]

What about the people in Dubai and Portugal u just let them carry on doin it as usual, why not tell the truth and say it actually cost about a £1000 per kg at the source? If u just made it legal and sourced it for the people using it very cheaply u would stop the incentive and save every one using it a lot of money, that money would then stay in the uk economy and it would stop the criminal gangs instantly coz they wouldn’t have any customers! Simple stuff

[@Shadows22_]

Staged.

[@auang]

and ? The next have probably already moved in, a pointless game of cat and mouse. since 100 years.

[@khawarhussain7407]

The usual suspects

[@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n]

53 million thats like one criminals in action aka the cocaine importation agencies shipment per day. we can sleep now

[@moneymitch4876]

Go spend money on some real criminals 😂 think ur superhero’s or something with that background music

[@louiseburnett5795]

A L L T H A T M O N E Y & N O D E C E N T S H O E S & S O C K S .

[@JS-wn9xo]

Bye bye losers 😂

[@thechosenone8590]

RESURRECTION. LAW AND ORDER.