LEEDS UNITED PLAYER IS CAUGHT WITH COCAINE.

Four drug dealers were sentenced, including a former Leeds United player.
Four individuals, whose encrypted messages were intercepted, were sentenced to prison for distributing huge quantities of cocaine, including a former Leeds United player.

After police pulled over 46-year-old former football player Paul Shepherd and took cocaine and an EncroChat device out of his car, the criminal network was discovered.

Carl O’Flaherty, 38, was implicated in messages on the handset and acknowledged leading the illegal organization.

On Wednesday, Leeds Crown Court put them and two other men in jail.

A prominent cocaine group that has been imprisoned for more than 45 years used a former Leeds United player as a courier.
When the authorities deciphered the coded phone conversations of a criminal organization that trafficked in kilogrammes of cocaine and featured a former Leeds United player, they were apprehended.

The four members of the underworld were unaware that in April 2020, the private EncroChat service they were using was hacked, enabling cops to listen in on their talks.

They discussed purchasing large amounts of premium cocaine in bulk at a wholesale price of £42,000 a kilogramme, cutting it with middlemen, and then reselling it.