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Woman lived life of luxury with Audi car & Louis Vuitton handbags – but drugs empire crashed after costly mistake

Woman lived life of luxury with Audi car & Louis Vuitton handbags – but drugs empire crashed after costly mistake
Published 2 years ago on Feb 19, 2023

Danielle Stafford splurged on luxury goods including nine watches and three expensive Louis Vuitton handbags.

She also bought a second home and took lavish holidays abroad without even touching her normal salary, Hull Live reports.

Stafford, 29, instead enjoyed the trappings of wealth using the money she made through a long-running drug operation. 

But her empire collapsed following a chance encounter with police, who clocked her speeding in her flashy Audi.

After she was arrested, Stafford’s phone constantly rang with 30 calls and pinged with up to 20 drug messages.

Officers searching her home in Cottingham in Yorkshire later seized £26,917 cash and drugs with a street value of £33,600.

Stafford is now facing jail after she admitted three offences of being concerned in supplying heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis and another of possessing cash as criminal property.

Hull Crown Court heard how between October 2017 and May 2020, Stafford sold heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis.

She was described as an “enthusiastic” cannabis dealer who rose through the murky ranks to become a Class A dealer.

Her “additional cash income stream” was so successful, she didn’t even need to touch her actual salary.

Nadim Bashir, prosecuting, said: “This went completely unnoticed by the police until one day in May 2020 when her manner of driving was noticed by the police and was the start of this case unravelling before her very eyes.”

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Danielle Stafford splurged on luxury goods including nine watches and three expensive Louis Vuitton handbags.

She also bought a second home and took lavish holidays abroad without even touching her normal salary, Hull Live reports.

Stafford, 29, instead enjoyed the trappings of wealth using the money she made through a long-running drug operation. 

But her empire collapsed following a chance encounter with police, who clocked her speeding in her flashy Audi.

After she was arrested, Stafford’s phone constantly rang with 30 calls and pinged with up to 20 drug messages.

Officers searching her home in Cottingham in Yorkshire later seized £26,917 cash and drugs with a street value of £33,600.

Stafford is now facing jail after she admitted three offences of being concerned in supplying heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis and another of possessing cash as criminal property.

Hull Crown Court heard how between October 2017 and May 2020, Stafford sold heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis.

She was described as an “enthusiastic” cannabis dealer who rose through the murky ranks to become a Class A dealer.

Her “additional cash income stream” was so successful, she didn’t even need to touch her actual salary.

Nadim Bashir, prosecuting, said: “This went completely unnoticed by the police until one day in May 2020 when her manner of driving was noticed by the police and was the start of this case unravelling before her very eyes.”

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