DETECTIVES meticulously trawled through CCTV footage from across the town to gather evidence to bring those involved to justice.
This is the moment Anthony Cullen and Christopher Houghton were captured on camera buying two safes on June 6, 2017, at B&Q in Winwick.
The safes were used to store some of the gang’s illicit stashes.
More than 1kg of cocaine was uncovered inside a safe – some with 80 per cent purity - after a raid on Hunter Avenue in Orford.
PICTURED: Police recovered a safe at a house on Hunter Avenue
Police believe that shortly after the raid, Cullen was planning to flee the country with his partner.
Flights were even booked as Cullen feared police had the evidence they needed to send him back to prison.
But he abandoned this idea and sought a different way to yield a new income by setting up a cannabis farm.
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