{"id":624655,"date":"2026-06-06T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624655\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:22:15","slug":"thousands-of-drugs-parcels-sent-out-via-royal-mail-from-gangs-bury-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624655\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of drugs parcels sent out via Royal Mail from gang’s Bury warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three men have been jailed<\/a> after police smashed a ‘highly sophisticated’ mail order drugs gang.<\/p>\n

Iain Potter, Jack Wright, and Ross Fathi ran the ‘industrial-scale’ operation from a distribution hub in Edenfield, Bury<\/a>, using the Royal Mail to deliver thousands of parcels of drugs to their customers.<\/p>\n

The warehouse was kitted out with packaging stations, vacuum sealing machines, label printers, and hundreds of Royal Mail bags ready for dispatch.<\/p>\n

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When police raided the unit they discovered a staggering array of illegal substances including cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, cannabis resin, THC edibles and more.<\/p>\n

Royal Mail records revealed the gang had sent 1,724 parcels between February and April 2025, each weighing between 0.1kg and 10kg. Every parcel carried a fake return address in an attempt to disguise their tracks should they be intercepted by the police.<\/p>\n

Police estimate the gang delivered at least 19kg of cocaine, among drugs worth a total of \u00a32.2m. Encrypted mobile phones and \u00a313,000 in cash were also seized.<\/p>\n

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Some of the parcels packaged up and ready for delivery(Image: GMP)<\/p>\n

Potter and Wright were arrested in Ramsbottom<\/a> in April 2025 after being stopped with a suitcase containing 5kgs of skunk.<\/p>\n

Searches at their homes found further drugs and packaging, including MDMA, ketamine, LSD, and cocaine. The gang’s courier and packer Fathi – who used the alias ‘A Sam Poland A’ – was arrested at the Edenfield unit and later linked to the conspiracy through encrypted messaging apps.<\/p>\n

Potter, 45, of Sefton Drive, Liverpool; and Wright, 30, of Westgate Lane, Wakefield were both jailed for 11 years and four months for conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs.<\/p>\n

Fathi, 46, of Wingfield Drive, Wilmslow<\/a> was sentenced to six years in prison for the same charges.<\/p>\n

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Drugs seized by police(Image: GMP)<\/p>\n

Det Con Liam Smith from GMP’s Serious Crime Division said: “This was an organised criminal enterprise on an industrial scale, they would act as a legitimate outfit, flooding drugs via parcels throughout the country. Potter, Wright and Fathi would use encrypted devices, fake addresses, and sophisticated packaging methods to try and evade detection.<\/p>\n

“The quantity of drugs involved, and the planning shows they weren\u2019t small time dealers, they ran a criminal outfit who were looking to maximise profits on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

“[This week’s] sentencing sends a clear message: if you choose to engage in drug supply, we will find you, dismantle your network, and bring you to justice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been jailed after police smashed a ‘highly sophisticated’ mail order drugs gang. Iain Potter, Jack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2436,1343,924,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-bury","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}