An EncroChat dealer has admitted being part of a huge cocaine plot.
Police seized £82,000 in cash and a Rolex watch when they raided George Marsh 's home and a container unit, both in Birkenhead.
The 33-year-old, of Park Road North in Birkenhead, was arrested in the raids on Thursday, June 17 this year and remanded in custody.
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He appeared at Liverpool Crown Court this morning, when he admitted conspiring with another EncroChat drug dealer, Bradley Luxton.
Luxton, 34, of Birch Avenue, Upton, who used the code names "SoupHedge" and "MerrySword", was jailed for 16 years earlier this month.
He had admitted supplying 31 kilos of cocaine, four kilos of heroin, 200 MDMA tablets, 51 kilos of cannabis and 14 grams of ketamine.
Marsh, who appeared via video link from HMP Altcourse, pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply cocaine, cannabis and ketamine between January 1, 2020 and June 16, 2021.
According to the charges, he conspired together with Luxton "and others unknown" to supply the Class A and B drugs.
Andrew Scott, defending, said he was requesting an adjournment before Marsh was sentenced and told the court there were two issues.
Mr Scott said Marsh would be entitled to a 25% discount in his prison sentence, because of his pleas at today's plea and trial preparation hearing.
If an offender pleads guilty or indicates their intention to plead guilty when they first appear before magistrates, they receive the full credit of one third.
Mr Scott said: "The reason there has been a change in solicitors and counsel is in respect of when that plea was entered."
The lawyer said the second issue was the quantity of drugs said to be involved and that having spoken to Henry Riding, prosecuting, he would now have to visit Marsh in prison "to explain the final position", but his client would not be entering a basis of plea.
Judge Garrett Byrne adjourned Marsh's sentencing until September 10 and remanded him in custody until that date.
Marsh replied: "Alright, thank you, thank you."
Earlier this month, the court heard how Luxton kept the EncroChat handle SoupHedge between March and May 2020 and MerrySword between June 5 and 13 of the same year.
After receiving an alert from a contact in June 2020 that the EncroChat platform had been hacked, he suggested using devices from a rival encrypted phone company, Sky, or the instant messaging service Wickr.
Simon Parry, prosecuting, said: "Bradley Luxton on receiving the security information goes on to joke 'They're going to need loads of Skys, people should transfer onto Wickr or get themselves Sky'."
The court heard he went on to talk about how "EncroChat and Sky had been battling against each other for years" and said he was going to "order some Skys from somebody called The Geek".
His home was raided on March 25 this year, when he was arrested and police seized designer clothing.
Both EncroChat devices were also seized, as well as detailed ledgers which "kept his drug dealing accounts" in "meticulous financial detail".
Police discovered he dealt drugs across the UK and "ploughed" money from his drug dealing business into renovating his Wirral home - reflected in him also admitting a charge of conspiring to convert criminal property.
He moaned in messages how he made £300,000 in two months but 'lost the lot' when it was stolen.
Luxton said he was "robbed twice" and now "bad debts were a nightmare".
The dad said he 'remained in the game' after £380,000 worth of drugs was stolen and he had to repay the debt to EncroChat user "TopsKing".
Sentencing Luxton, Judge David Aubrey, QC, said: "You have contributed to the degradation and human misery that drugs cause to those that take them, their families and the wider community affected by the crimes by those that become addicted to them."
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