Greater Manchester father and son 'flooded' England with cocaine
GMP said Richard Hoyland, of Meade Hill Road, Prestwich was identified as a supplier of Class A drugs to organised crime groups (OCGs) across the country.He was seen in November supplying a large blue bag containing 5kg of cocaine. But officers intercepted a vehicle on its way to Hull and recovered the cocaine.Evidence from a mobile phone, other seized devices and handwritten notes, linked him to the supply chain.He was arrested on 27 January and police found 83kg of cocaine worth millions of pounds in his family home.A further 13kg was found in his bedroom, alongside "drug-related paraphernalia" and a large machete hidden beneath a sofa.
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