Gang jailed after police make one of UK's largest heroin and cocaine seizures on North Wales farm
Date of alert:
Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Crime Ref:
Force:
Wales - North Wales Police
A gang whose "slick" drug operation ended in one the UK's largest seizures of heroin and cocaine has been jailed.
The class A drugs were smuggled through the Channel Tunnel before being taken to a farm in North Wales that was used as a distribution centre.
Cocaine and heroin with an estimated street value of £64m was recovered in a police raid on the farm, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
The four men involved in the gang were sentenced at Chester Crown Court.
Guy Remington, 48, from Hereford, Luke Hirst, 37, of Deeside, Thomas Smith, 41, from Liverpool and Morgan Towner, 47, of Leatherhead, Surrey, all pleaded guilty to a range of offences and were jailed for a combined total of 55 years.
Police in the north-west of England estimate two tonnes of drugs with a potential street value of more than £250m were imported by the gang.
