Family of drug barons kept their stash in Crooked Bank

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Family of drug barons kept their stash in Crooked Bank
By Stewart Tendler, Crime Correspondent
Times

ON FENLAND maps, Crooked Bank is marked as an innocent public footpath. But the sketch found by police in Barry and Mavis Warden’s home gave it a different, and far more sinister role.

The “treasure map” drawn on the back of a shopping receipt details dozens of hiding places for drugs and cash stashed in the beauty spot near Wisbech by an extraordinary drugs cartel run by the Warden family and their friends.

During a 12-day search of the footpath behind the Wardens’ home, police recovered a kilo of cocaine worth £62,000 and 52 kilos of cannabis worth another £200,000. The searchers also discovered £63,000 in cash buried in four different spots along Crooked Bank.

Police said drugs were buried by the gang as if they “were planting potatoes” and the Wardens dealt in so many drugs that detectives believe they lost track of where they had stored some of them. Cocaine worth thousands of pounds would be stuffed into socks and hung up in trees. Cannabis bars were stored in giant pickle barrels in holes in the ground.

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