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Drug Dealers locked up in Grenada
Customs officials in Britain apprehended the yacht in which members of the gang were traveling 15 miles off the south west coast of England. Patrick Walsh, 48, David Coxon, 54, and Douglas wood, 59, were individually sentenced at Southwark crown court. During a surveillance operation, officers discovered Walsh wanted to smuggle cocaine into Britain on the yacht. He made repeated trips to Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Grenada using the false name of Michael Sheridan. On occasions he traveled with Coxon and they were often joined by wood. Wood and Coxon eventually set sail from Grenada, falsely telling customs they were heading to Brazil. Instead they picked up the drugs in Guyana and headed to Britain. Meanwhile, the other gang members were in Britain preparing for a cash van heist in barking, east London. The gang used cash from robberies to fund the organised importation of cocaine with a street value of 10 million pounds ($16m) into the UK. The court heard how the boat had been tracked after being brought into Trinidad loaded with 91 kilos of cocaine. Wood and Coxon were arrested at the helm of the vessel, named Ronin, on September 12, 2008. After several guilty verdicts were returned last December, police revealed other gang members were also involved in armed cash van robberies. |
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The main gang organizer of three cocaine smugglers who included Grenada in one of their stop off points is now behind bars in Britain. 