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New photos released by Merseyside Police to the ECHO show how Hughes' lavish lifestyle came crashing down and both he and his dad ended up behind bars. The Liverpool Central Addaction Recovery Centre is based in The Foundry in Henry Street, you can call the charity on 0151 706 7888. Secrets of Drug Dealing Unveiled” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Rising (4/1/2021) The real-life confession of an actual drug lord - the full, uncensored story of what it takes to survive a life of crime." That's the tagline that sold me on this book. And here’s the other advantage we have: we know police profile. We use it against them. That’s an important rule: Embrace racial stereotypes.
An intimate and detailed account of the business of grey legal marijuana.” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Stoner (2/5/2021) The load car was to be driven by another friend of his, from St. Louis I think. He was practically a high school kid, someone I didn’t know, by the name of Andre. The third car is the load. He’s carrying the shit in the trunk. That’s a rule: No drugs inside the passenger area of a car. A corollary to that is, Always drive a car with a trunk. No SUVs. No Muranos. None of that. An ordinary boring sedan with a trunk.
He was out of St. Louis, the son of my aunt Sonja, my father’s sister. Aunt Sonja treated me like a son of her own. Whenever I was in town, she’d drop everything to make me catfish. We were tight, which is why I made a mistake and brought in her son.
I've read a decent amount on the world of narco-crime, with one of the most formative books being ZeroZeroZero, a read that truly exposed the underworkings of something quite complex through an investigative lens. It asks questions about how things work, why things exist, and how power is crucial to both things. He said Hughes spent around 75% of his income from selling drugs to feed his own habit, which had made him "vulnerable", and he had to pay for his cocaine. Lays bare the link between organised crime, the state and policing” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING featured in Morning Star (7/29/2021) Drug Dealing, the Media, and the Politics of Division” — Matt Taibbi interviewed about THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING on Letters and Politics (9/16/2021) You don’t really need that second car. It costs more and doesn’t do anything specific other than add a set of eyes. But it’s an extra buffer, one more layer of confusion for authorities. Three cars is too few, five cars is too expensive. But four is perfect.Marshall, who also made 10 trips to Cardiff and London, ferrying drugs for the gang, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine.
He said Marshall's family would suffer from his absence, particularly his 16-year-old daughter, and unlike others in the gang, he didn't have an EncroChat phone. Martyn Walsh, defending Marshall, who had one previous conviction for theft from 2011, said his client had always worked hard to provide for his wife and children, and was described as being "a devoted family man". Try to lay off the weed while you drive,” I said. “If you get pulled over, even if you toss the joint, the smell can be probable cause. And don’t pull over for any reason.” Liverpool Crown Court heard the gang was allegedly led by a man named Callum Hogg, aka EncroChat user "SpeedyHerder", who remains at large.Then I let him in. I figured, well, he’s doing it on the streets, I’ll just level him up a little. Before I knew it, he’d skipped a couple rungs on the ladder. Made him overconfident. I couldn’t keep eyes on him in where he lived, but he was acting like a big fish there, shouting his name to the rooftops, which is what you don’t want to do. Buddy was a street dealer out there, a younger guy. He thought he was a real dealer until he met me. Then he saw what real money and real product looked like. Speaking after the case, Detective Inspector Chris Lowe said: "These are significant sentences which reflect the extent of the conspiracy that these men were involved in. The Secrets and Rules Which Allowed [a] Drug Kingpin to Never Get Caught” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Going Underground (3/16/2021) In business, racism is your friend. If you master the nuances of it, you will prevail. Race is everything in America, especially in law enforcement.
Dad-of-four Marshall, of Robson Street, Everton, also worked as a "courier" for the gang and made 10 identified trips in these "slot" cars to Cardiff and London. In the movies, you often see mobsters working together in family businesses. But family members in real life are liabilities. You can’t walk away from a family member. Not easy to have one’s legs broken, either. Once family members get inside the tent, they’re hard to remove. Weeded out of business by a cannabis coup” — Matt Taibbi’s THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING reviewed by Morning Star (8/17/2021) A photo of cocaine recovered from EncroChat devices belonging to the gang including Ryan Mulcahy, Anthony Connolly and Liam Hughes.But then all these California farmers got in this situation, and I suddenly had to unload a lot of product. I had no choice. St. Louis was a market I knew I needed. Pritchard, 29, of Mavis Drive, Coppull, Lancashire, admitted conspiring to supply cocaine. He was jailed for 10 years. When talking with an Encro user, "NuttyElk", about one "slot" car on April 10 last year, Mulcahy boasted: "Man its a proper stash car plod cant find cost 12k" Rule: every time you enter a state, change out your cars. Rule: drive rentals but make sure you’ve got in-state plates as often as possible. Iowa cars in Iowa, Colorado cars in Colorado. And so on. And you don’t stop except to sleep and go to the bathroom. But he didn’t want to play the bait role. He thought he was too big time for that, even though he was still only twenty-four. He insisted on being in charge, in the rear car.
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