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Inmate jailed for smuggling ring
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Inmate jailed for smuggling ring
18 Aug 2009 - BBC UK

A convicted drug dealer from Liverpool who ran an international
cocaine ring from his prison cell using a mobile phone has been
jailed for 18 years.

George Moon, 62, admitted importing cocaine using DHL and Royal Mail
Parcel Force, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

He used a contraband mobile phone at HMP Lindholme in Doncaster to
contact Leo Morgan, from Birmingham, an inmate at El Renacer Prison in Panama.

They plotted to smuggle cocaine with a street value of £300,000 into the UK.

Moon, from Liverpool, was already serving a 14-year sentence for
earlier importations of cocaine in 2003, when he contacted Morgan
in South America.

Judge Bryn Holloway said it "beggars belief" how Moon was able to
access a mobile phone and two sim cards while in prison.

He added: "The fact you were able to do that in an English prison
raises questions over the levels of supervision and control over you.

"You were able, while a prisoner, to access mobile phones. An even more
extraordinary fact was the South America end of this conspiracy was being
run by an Englishman who was, at the time, a prisoner in Panama."

The court was told Morgan received phone calls from Moon on a smuggled
mobile and then used contacts in Latin America to arrange the consignments.

The parcels, made to look like engineering parts, were sent to Cork, Ireland,
and then brought into the UK by fellow gang members.

Packages were also sent to UK addresses linked to Moon's gang.

Moon then used a false name to pretend he wanted to rent storage
space from a landlord in Ireland, whom he convinced to accept the drug deliveries for him.

The plot was exposed in May 2008 when former soldier Lee Standeven, 24,
of Clapgate Crescent, Widnes, posted him a parcel of heroin and mobile Sim cards.

The court heard prison guards were suspicious when the envelope arrived
with a Ministry of Justice emblem on it - but it was sent from Cheshire.

A sniffer dog indicated it contained drugs and the envelope was opened.

A notebook, seized from Moon's prison cell, containing phone numbers and
details about the gang, helped police crack the case.

Standeven was jailed for five years after admitting supplying Moon
heroin and contraband Sim cards.

Four other accomplices were all jailed for between five and eight years for their involvement.


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Re: Inmate jailed for smuggling ring [Re: Green_T]
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Wow you get cellphones in prison now? That must be why there are so many people there. It's like heaven compared to the projects, where you have to shit in the same bathroom as your neighbor. Next you're gunna be telling me that each inmate gets their own cell. Jeez.:crazy2:


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Re: Inmate jailed for smuggling ring [Re: esp0791]
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So, what are they gonna do now, throw him in jai- oh, right.


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Re: Inmate jailed for smuggling ring [Re: buddhabadger]
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lol

"inmate jailed"

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Re: Inmate jailed for smuggling ring [Re: NobodyImportant]
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Dude is CONNECTED if he's getting phones on the regular in prison...


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