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| Work Detail | This is the moment two Liverpool drug traffickers pose for a selfie as they brought in a £224,000 drugs haul. Michael Calvert and Steven Moore posed for the camera having sailed into Jersey with the huge heroin haul stuffed into a sock. They were arrested by undercover police after going to a pub on the island to toast their success. Calvert, 37, and Moore, 39, were today behind bars beginning a combined 15 year prison term. Jersey’s Royal Court heard how the crooks - who have amassed almost 180 previous convictions between them - hired a boat in northern France to sail to Jersey. Calvert remained on the island and met Moore as he docked at Gorey harbour on February 19. Sixteen undercover officers waited to pounce following a month-long surveillance operation. Calvert told officers as they arrested him: “I knew this was going to happen, I f***ing knew it. You lot have been following me for weeks.” Detective Inspector Steve Langford, who led the operation, codenamed Operation Optic, said: “While they are an organised crime group they are not the most sophisticated. The photo on the boat says it all, really.” Moore admitting importing heroin as well as £740 worth of oxycodone, £480 worth of the painkiller Subutex and £20 of cannabis. He was jailed for seven years and four months. Calvert, formerly of Statton Road, Broadgreen, pleaded guilty to one count of importing heroin. He was sentenced to eight years in prison. Both men laughed, whispered and smirked between themselves as they were jailed. Delivering the court’s sentence, judge William Bailhache told them: “You both knew the score and took your chance, and unfortunately for you, it did not pay off.” Pierre Landick, defending Calvert, said that his client had been involved in the importation in order to raise money to clear a £5,000 debt. He said: “The debt he was trying to repay was not a drug-related debt. “Money was outstanding from a loan to buy presents for his children at Christmas.” James Bell, defending Moore, formerly of Honeys Green Lane, West Derby, described his client as a “mule” and said there were individuals involved at a higher level. |
| Country | United Kingdom , Northern Europe |
| Industry | GRC |
| Entry Date | 02 Sep 2016 |
| Source | http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/selfie-smugglers-liverpool-drugs-crooks-11808611 |
