Meat slip puts drug kingpin in the joint
Daily Star|July 12, 2024
CROOK IDENTIFIED BY BUTCHER CHAT
PAIGE INGRAM
Meat slip puts drug kingpin in the joint

A DRUGS kingpin has been caged after his passion for a butcher's shop revealed his identity to cops.

Dean Cooper, 51, was the mastermind behind a £3.68million cocaine racket.

But he was busted by Operation Venetic, a huge police probe into secret chats on the encrypted network EncroChat.

This story is from the July 12, 2024 edition of Daily Star.

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