FENLAND, England, May 11 (UPI) -- Police in East Anglia, England, have broken a family-led drug cartel that hid drugs and cash in buried pickle bottles and in socks suspended from trees.
At their trial for drug trafficking at Cambridge Crown Court, police testified Barry and Mavis Warden, their two sons, a daughter and seven others used bizarre tactics in 10 years of selling marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines.
Police said drugs were buried by the gang as if they "were planting potatoes" and detectives believe the gang lost track of where they had stored some of them. Cocaine worth thousands of dollars was stuffed into socks and hung up in trees and marijuana bricks were stored in giant pickle barrels in holes in the ground.
During a 12-day search of a path behind the Wardens' home, police recovered a kilo of cocaine worth $115,000 and 52 kilos of cannabis worth another $375,000. The searchers also discovered $118,000 in cash buried in four different spots along the path.
All 12 have pleaded guilty to their charges ans are awaiting sentencing, The Times of London said Wednesday.
