US EditionTalking Parrot Helps Lancashire Police Bring Down Drug Gangs
Fifteen gang members were sentenced to over 103 years after police used videos of a parrot repeating drug deal phrases to uncover a prison-run trafficking operation.
- A parrot named Mango was taught key drug dealing phrases and found during a police raid on homes in Blackpool, where officers also seized large amounts of heroin and cocaine.
- Ringleader Adam Garnett, 35, ran the Blackpool-based drug gang from inside prison in 2023 to 2024, and videos on phones showed the parrot talking and playing with drug money.
- A total of 15 gang members pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to drug offences between February 2023 and July 2024, receiving sentences ranging from 5 to 19.5 years in prison.
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In videos found on a mobile phone, Mango the parrot announced the prices of drug sales, the bill filled with tickets. The images served as evidence to the English investigators to charge the owner and 11 other gang members. (International).
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A drug trafficking network was dismantled on Monday in the United Kingdom thanks to the brain parrot, which provided valuable information to investigators.
Mango, the parrot of a drug trafficking chief, has made it possible to aggravate his prison sentence. ...
In the United Kingdom, in Lancashire, the police succeeded in dismantling a drug trafficking network thanks to the gang leader's parrot on Monday, August 4. In videos, the bird announced the prices of the...
A gang of drug traffickers was dismantled thanks to a small yellow parrot called Mango, announced the police of Lancashire (northwest of England), on August 4th,... Read the article United Kingdom: a drug trafficking dismantled thanks to... a parrot a little too talkative appeared first on Current Values.
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