Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Members of an organised crime group called The Johnno Team, who flooded the Chester area with heroin and crack cocaine have been jailed for a total of 43-and-a-half years.
James Bolland, Daniel Rubert, Kyle Byrne, Dylan Griffiths, Sean Roddy, Stephen Clarke, Anthony Skyner, David Young, Graham Mallon, Zahra O’Bad, Carl Henderson and Paul Williamson have all been sentenced following a six-month investigation into the large scale supply of class A drugs from Merseyside.
The investigation revealed that a county lines drug dealing gang were using pay-as-you-go mobile phones to send flare text messages to known drug users in the Chester area.
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