Four dispersal orders were introduced in the space of a few days to tackle anti-social behaviour in Liverpool city centre ...

21 people have been arrested after Merseyside Police seized quantities of suspected cannabis and cocaine and £45,000. It ...

Police discovered a huge scam stretching almost the entire country after residents noticed men in hi-vis jackets coming and ...

Police eventually linked the gang to the cannabis farm after CCTV showed them arriving in a van bearing the company's logo ...

A gang hid their sinister exploits by pretending to be a normal work crew, but they were splicing off electricity for ...

Ross McGinn ran the company Elev8 with Andrew Roberts, splicing electricity from the national grid to power a network of drug ...

Criminals who posed as legitimate electric workers to dig up cables and abstract millions of pounds worth of power for ...

The Crown Prosecution Service’s case against the men spanned a period of three years and encompassed 54 instances were the gang had illegally diverted electricity to cannabis farms up and down the ...

McGinn, 33 and of Midway Road in Huyton, was sentenced to five years and four months, while Andrew Roberts, 42 and of Bell ...

But in reality, crews from reassuringly professional-looking Elev8 Civils and Utilities vans were in fact part of an astonishing covert criminal network fuelling illicit drug profits worth millions.

Criminals who posed as legitimate electric workers to dig up cables and abstract millions of pounds worth of power for ...

It was registered as a legitimate business - but was actually helping gangs produce cannabis grows across the UK ...