Police smash £16m cannabis ring

Cannabis plant

A £16MILLION cannabis gang have been smashed by police on Merseyside.

Detectives were celebrating today after dismantling the spine of a criminal enterprise thought to have flooded the north west with the drug.

The culmination of months of work and surveillance came yesterday when officers carried out six dawn raids - five in Merseyside and one in Greater Manchester - as they went after the alleged ringleaders.

In total, 11 people were arrested.

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