By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Police forces around the world find their job easier when dealing with street criminals because most of them are stupid. Organized crime is often anything but, and the smart crook is as rare as a sleeping bird.
The Lancashire coppers (England) came up against a real group of Dunderheads earlier this year whose fall in grace was partly rested on the verbosity of a parrot.
The police did not take care of geniuses, judging by their cups.
But a parrot?
The Lancashire, in northwestern England, houses the group which was not so intelligent.
Famous for its picturesque landscapes, its long sections of beaches and renowned golf courses England. Near the big cities of Manchester and Liverpool, it has everything that is happening.
With a lot of anarchy.
Among the 48 counties of England, he arrives at the number new, one below London, as the most articulated place. Crime, drugs and Neanderthals who circulate them, converge.
A strange crowd of them, known to the police under the name of OCG (Group of organized crime), peddling drugs in and around Blackpool, perhaps the most famous city of the County of Lancashire. For a long time as a vacation station for the tens of thousands of workers bulging the big cities of its perimeter, the seaside city has deteriorated over the years due to complex social problems and the endless illegal drug consumption of its constantly evolving population.
The Garnett gang was one of the main creators of problems.
The western targeted crime team (one of the three) is a police unit involved in “Operation Warrior”, a law response to the county level to combat serious and organized crime, in particular “county lines” operations, launched in November 2022.
County Lines is the police terminology used to describe drug trafficking where dealers use mobile phones to provide drug drugs to cities and rural areas using vulnerable people like runners, especially illegal children and immigrants.
County Lines, a brutal phenomenon involving the violence of gangs, drug abuse, knife crime and modern slavery, was seen for the first time in London in 2015.
A bad stew of endless ingredients, harmful and fatal.
The Lancashire police criminal team tracks down one of these gangs, led by Adam Garnett, thirty-five, who runs his crowd from a prison cell where he purges a fifteen-year sentence for previous criminal conduct: drug trafficking.
The detectives follow gang members from February 2023 to July 2024. Fifteen people, including at least three women, would have heroin, cocaine, cannabis and ketamine while they organized deliveries and collected and stored money.
And go nowhere when they are about to discover it, when their mortal enemies, the Fuzz, make a great breakthrough in their investigation.
Like everyone in this modern and bizarre world, criminals have adapted to change. The largest from afar in their hemisphere is the introduction of the mobile phone, which began its ascendant in our lives in the early 1990s.
The world of crime revolves around them as our days do. For hells, they are an ambiguous tool – a tool that gives them instant access and communication, vital for drug consents – but is also their biggest Achilles heel, as a potential Intel source for their enemies, especially the police.
Earlier this year, a routine prison search at Lancaster Farms prison near Lancaster City revealed a cache of mobile phones and Wi-Fi routers in the Adam Garnett cell. The analysis of these mobiles reveals a trunk to the treasure of data leading to gang members and their activities through the county, to peddle drugs and to engage in other criminal activities.
Garnett headed his prison drug ring. And not for the first time.
The Lancashire police arrested him, one of the 30 suspects, in a previous investigation, “Operation Enigma” which followed drug traffickers from April 2019 to January 2020, after which he finished the clink by making a period of fifteen years, and a court had sentenced him in 2017 for drug trafficking. Since he was only thirty-five years old when he was finished for the “Operation warrior” exercise, he seems to spend most of his professional life behind bars.
On his phones and those who bind to those of his partners, the police have built a photo showing videos of dealerships bringing closer to their activities and showing images of kilo cocaine blocks, and the silver stacked high and dispersed on the floors and tables.
A clip presents Garnett's girlfriend, Shannon Hilton, inside their house on Devonshire Road in Blackpool, teacher at his pet parrot, to recite “Two for 25” referring to a transaction price for two cocaine bags for £ 25 (US $ 34).
The parrot also plays with Cash, which are profits from the gang transactions. This happens in front of a child. Another clip shows that the member of a Gareth Burgess gang walking in a dark nocturnal scaire with Blackpool, flashing with bundles of silver while typing on his criminal acts.
Dalbir Sandhu, one of Garnett's interior circle, says drug trafficking as if he was creating a documentary on his crime.
The entire gang is obsessed with the media and determined to generate undoubted evidence of their daily criminal activity. As if they were looking for confirmation of their ability to soak up blue ignorance, with a parrot for a mentor.
On August 4, Preston Crown Court imprisoned Garnett and fourteen of his gang for more than 100 years for having provided class A drugs. Two are in the wind. Andrew Garnet obtains the other twenty-year-old kicker-one added to the fifteen he serves. And it's consecutive, not simultaneous. Shannon Hilton, his girlfriend and a fan of Parrot, goes for twelve.
The mango fate is unknown. He was transferred to the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals.
Social media users were amused by Mango and found the funny side of the incident. A comment said, “How do we know that the parrot was not in charge?” He holds money. ” Another posted: “Will the parrot enter the protection of witnesses if he testifies?”
Another user said: “Parrots are perfect criminal companions, especially African gray, with a potential lifespan up to 100 years with appropriate care; A test of ten is nothing for them. ”
Mango, the parrot that transformed the pigeon of the stool, is a small thread in a sort of Bayeux crime tapestry and its social implications. Crime is the largest company that the world has known. Wars come and go. Financial disasters enter and outside the generations. Natural disasters engulf us, then retreat. Medical emergencies are going through life as a mosquito in search of a target.
The maliciousness is endless 24/7 / 365- and its cost must take place in thousands of billion. It is perhaps, the only universal common point which links all countries on earth, in the worst possible way. His link with fate is essential.
Andrew Garnet forgot the unwritten law which determines how fate controls us all:
Whatever the way we turn, fate comes out to stumble.
* Busy doing nothing. Music and words by Jimmy Van Heusen of the film “A Connecticut Yankee at the court of King Arthur”, 1949.
Copyright © Thom L. Jones & Gangsters Inc.
