Ten years for Liverpool drug dealer who flooded streets with heroin and cocaine A Liverpool man was jailed for 10 years for flooding the streets with heroin and cocaine.
Liam Sullivan, 33, was part of an organised gang that packaged drugs in Liverpool which were then driven down to Devon.
Plymouth Crown Court heard how Sullivan of Grandison Road, Anfield, packaged drugs and directed couriers.
When he was caught 13 months after his fellow defendants he was again dealing Class A drugs.
He admitted conspiring with other named defendants to supply Class A drugs between January 2011 and May 2012.
He also admitted dealing Class A drugs when police arrested him at a caravan park in Prestatyn, North Wales, on July 31.
Sullivan pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and possession of crack cocaine with intent to supply.
He also admitted simple possession of the Class A drug Oxycodone and the Class B drug cannabis.
His sentence brings the total handed to members of the gang to more than 100 years.
Judge Paul Darlow said the drugs the gang supplied brought “misery” to the streets of Plymouth.
Thirteen people have already been convicted of taking part in the conspiracy including gang ringleaders Stephen Kearns a 30-year-old motor trader from Liverpool and Wayne Harle- Stephens, 56, an antiques trader from Plymouth who were jailed for 15 years and 14 years and nine months respectively.
The conspiracy was uncovered by a police investigation called Operation Rio.
Couriers made dozens of trips to bring cocaine and heroin from Merseyside to Plymouth.
The first breakthrough came in April 2011 when Liverpool taxi driver Alison Bates was stopped in her car.
She was taken to a medical facility where she removed two golf-ball size balls of crack-cocaine, weighing 50 grams and worth £5,000 from a body cavity.
The next courier caught was 50-year-old Walton taxi driver John Cavanagh. In eight months he had covered the 600-mile round trip more than 80 times, often staying just moments before returning.
He was tracked to a storage unit on the Knowsley industrial estate and used a swipe card registered to Walton motor trader Stephen Kearns, who emerged as one of the key orchestrators of the drugs plot.
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