Overview
- Merseyside Police’s Project Medusa investigation began when plain‑clothes officers stopped a suspect in October and seized a mobile phone that triggered further enquiries.
- A deep forensic analysis of the device recovered hundreds of outgoing messages offering cocaine, crack, heroin and cannabis for sale.
- Officers executed a warrant at a Logwood Road address in Huyton and found live cannabis plants packed inside a wardrobe immediately adjacent to a baby's cot with makeshift high‑voltage wiring.
- James Furlong, 23, pleaded guilty to production of cannabis and to being concerned in the supply of cocaine, heroin and cannabis and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday, June 26.
- Detectives say the case shows how county‑lines networks exploit local people and create acute child‑safety risks and they have asked the public to report information to Merseyside Police or Crimestoppers as no wider prosecutions tied to the address have been made public.