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Four men have been arrested and three firearms seized as part of an NCA investigation into an organised crime group involved a range of illegal activity. All four men, suspected members of the OCG, were arrested by NCA officers supported by the Met Police on Monday 12 October in the Isle of Dogs area of London. Officers recovered a self-loading pistol with 10 rounds of ammunition in a car linked to one of the suspects. Two hand guns with a further 14 rounds of ammunition were also recovered hidden in the garden of a property on Claire Place. Two of the men, Artem Kuts, 38, and Alexander Georgiev, 26, have since been charged with firearms possession offences. They have …

A man has been charged with drugs, firearms and money laundering offences after the seizure of cocaine worth £1.2 million, a firearm and £23,000 in cash. Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership (OCP), a joint NCA and Metropolitan Police Service unit, arrested 29-year-old Albanian national Muhamet Qosja after pulling over a vehicle on Melbourne Road in Ilford, London, on 13 October. Inside the car officers located the cash concealed within the dashboard. A search of a nearby address in Valentines Road led to the discovery of a revolver, 20 rounds of ammunition and 12 kilos of cocaine, hidden in a bedroom. Once cut to street-level purity the drugs would have ha…

Two men have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the attempted importation of a firearm into Northern Ireland. The pair, aged 38 and 29, were detained at an address in Ballymoney this morning (13 October) following a joint operation involving the Police Service of Northern Ireland and NCA officers. They are now being questioned by NCA investigators, while searches at addresses in Ballymoney continue. The arrests follow a Border Force seizure of a package containing a functioning handgun, two magazines and more than 50 rounds of ammunition at an international parcel hub in England. NCA Belfast branch commander David Cunningham said: “…

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Cocaine worth around £6 million at street level has been seized at the Port of Holyhead, as part of an investigation involving the National Crime Agency, the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Border Force. On Friday 9 October, officers from Border Force found around 83kg of cocaine concealed within a lorry load of refrigerated goods. Following the seizure Border Force officers arrested the lorry driver and conducted further searches with the support of PSNI, and NCA officers later charged him. James Joseph Gray, 51, of County Londonderry, has been charged with exporting Class A drugs. He appeared at Llandudno Magistrates’ court on Monday 12 October and was furth…

A man has been jailed for over nine years after a sawn-off shotgun and cash was recovered as part of an operation by the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service Organised Crime Partnership. Peter O’Donnell, 36, was arrested on Friday 12 June after OCP officers recovered a sawn-off shotgun from a taxi travelling away from his home in Ladbroke Grove. The taxi was occupied by an associate of O’Donnell’s to whom he had given possession of the weapon, along with five shotgun cartridges. After realising the shotgun had been seized , O’Donnell attempted to flee his flat on Chesterton Road in a separate taxi. He was detained by MPS armed officers who fou…