Drug dealer 'Biggie' flooded Leigh and and Atherton streets with heroin and cocaine

Adam Jarir, who was said to number two in the organisation led by Jake Muldoon, recruited street dealers to work for the gang and organised addresses where the drugs could be packaged ready for distribution between August, 2018 and February, 2020.

At Bolton Crown Court 29-year-old Jarir, who used the alias ‘Biggie’, was the last of the gang to be jailed after admitting conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.

Adam Jarir, Jamie Ashcroft, Declan Prescott, Jake Muldoon, Nathan Rutter and Rhys Jones

Muldoon was previously sentenced to six years and six months, Jamie Ashcroft to six years, Declan Prescott to six years and nine months, Nathan Rutter to five years and Rhys Jones to three years and six months.

At Jarir’s sentencing hearing Recorder Sarah Johnson was told how the conspiracy involved drugs being bought via the “Joe” dealer line — two phones which generated drug sales of approximately £828,000 from more than 8kg of class A drugs.

The gang was smashed through a police investigation nicknamed Operation Lever, during which a property in Bridges Street, Atherton, was raided.

Jarir was among those there and officers recovered drugs, cash and Jarir’s phone which he used for deals.

Mark Kellet, prosecuting, said Jarir’s phone had been used to send bulk messages advertising the sale of cocaine and heroin.

He added: “Messages indicated Jarir had been directing street supply with messages such as, ‘Ring me when you need more stuff and I’ll meet you at the scout hut’.”

Even after he was arrested, Jarir continued to deal in drugs and acted for Muldoon, who was directing operations from inside Forest Bank prison using a smuggled in phone.

The court heard that Jarir, of Kingsland Crescent, Liverpool, had previous convictions but none for drugs offences.

Rick Holland, defending, told Recorder Sarah Johnson: “This particular criminality exceeds anything he has been involved in before.”

He added that Jarir does not wish to reveal how he came to be involved in the conspiracy.

Sentencing Jarir, Recorder Johnson told him: “This was a wide course of criminal activity — each conspirator, including you, playing their part and giving comfort and assistance to others knowing that you were doing so.”

"Anyone who spends time in these courts will quickly appreciate the devastating impact that drug dealing has upon society.

"Lives are destroyed, relationships are broken and communities are blighted by criminal activities undertaken by those who are in desperate need of cash in order to fund their addiction.

"Those who seek to profit from the misery inflicted on others must expect significant sentences if, and when they are apprehended."