UK Policing News

A man from Liverpool, found with more than 10 kilos of cocaine worth around £800,000 hidden in a secret compartment in his van, has been jailed. Francis Cain, 45, from Liverpool, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and given a two year driving ban at Durham Crown Court yesterday (Friday 29 November), following an investigation by the Joint Border Disruption Team – a joint NCA and regional police force unit of Cleveland, Durham, and Northumbria officers. On 23 September this year at 10.50am, Cain was stopped by police driving his van on the A1 motorway near to the junction for Bowburn in Durham. When officers searched the van they found 10 packages of cocaine hidden i…

A website which sold a hacking tool purchased by cyber criminals in 124 countries and gave full remote control of victims’ computers has been taken down following an international investigation. 14,500 people across the world purchased the Imminent Monitor Remote Access Trojan (IM RAT) from https://imminentmethods.net for as little as US$25. Once covertly installed on a victim’s computer, IM RAT allowed the hacker full access to the infected device, enabling them to disable anti-virus software, steal data or passwords, record key strokes and watch victims via their webcams. The international operation was led by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) with the North West…

The two ringleaders of a Birmingham-based organised crime group involved in smuggling millions of pounds worth of class A drugs into the UK have been jailed for a combined sentence of almost 44 years. The gang, headed by Wasim Hussain and Nazarat Hussain (unrelated), set up a series of front companies which were involved in the importation of chicken from the Netherlands. On three occasions heroin and cocaine worth around £5 million was seized hidden in chicken shipments, however NCA investigators subsequently identified another 16 importations which they suspect contained drugs. The importations began in June 2016 and continued into 2017. Following each of the fir…

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Three tonnes of cocaine worth hundreds of millions of pounds on the UK market have been recovered from a submarine intercepted off the coast of Spain. Following an intelligence-led operation involving the National Crime Agency and international partners, the Spanish authorities interdicted the semi-submersible submarine – the first of its kind detected in the Europe – on Saturday before it could offload the drugs to another vessel. The 20m-long submarine, which was escorted into the port of Aldán and searched by police, was carrying 152 bales containing three tonnes of cocaine. Two Ecuadorian nationals have been arrested and a search for the third crew member is ongo…

A Dutch man has been jailed for 16 years for trafficking cocaine, with an estimated street value of £133m hidden on a yacht intercepted off the coast of Cornwall.
 Yacht owner Maarten Peter Pieterse, aged 61, was arrested following an operation led by the National Crime Agency.

Pieterse pleaded guilty at a hearing last year and was sentenced today (Wednesday) at Bristol Crown Court.
 On the 18 July 2018, acting on intelligence, the Border Force cutter HMC Vigilant intercepted the Dutch-registered SY Marcia approximately 120 miles south west of the Cornish coast. It then escorted the 60-foot yacht into Newlyn harbour near Penzance, where a detailed search of the ves…

Nine suspects have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into an organised crime group (OCG) smuggling money out of the UK to Dubai hidden in suitcases. Eight were arrested this morning at addresses in Cleckheaton, Bradford and Dewsbury, all in West Yorkshire, and one was arrested in Bridlington, Humberside. NCA investigators believe the nine men are part of an organised crime group that smuggled millions of pounds out of UK airports last year. Nine linked suspects were previously arrested by Border Force officers trying to smuggle money out of the UK, and a further six suspects have been arrested and questioned about their suspected roles …

The Met Police have been accused of ‘racial prejudice’ after a black man was arrested while drying his children’s clothes in a London launderette. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/11/26/met-police-accused-brutality-dad-drying-kids-clothes-launderette-11222009/amp/

A man from Hull has been charged with heading up a crime group planning on smuggling migrants to the UK using small boats. Iraqi national Nzar Jabar Mohamad, 32, was arrested by National Crime Agency officers at his home in Waterloo Street on Friday 15 November. He was later charged with conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration, and was remanded in custody and will next appear at Hull Crown Court on 16 December. The charges relate to an alleged plot to smuggle migrants from France to the UK using small dinghies. NCA officers suspect members of the crime group based on the continent had bought a boat, outboard engine and life jackets ready to make the crossing, c…

A retired Scotland Yard detective who led the response to the 7/7 terror attacks was chased and rugby-tackled to the ground after being caught trying to dodge a train fare. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/18/retired-scotland-yard-chief-tackled-ground-using-old-police/

A cop killer who mowed down a police officer is back behind the wheel while banned from driving. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-killer-who-mowed-down-19116373.amp

A martial arts teacher has been jailed for three years after admitting online child sexual abuse offences and refusing to hand over the passcode to his phone. Aron Stacey, 38, of Accrington, east Lancashire, swapped child abuse images and videos with an Israeli man in an online photo sharing website and they discussed child abuse together. Stacey, who ran Aztec Martial Arts in Accrington, was arrested in September 2017. Safeguarding checks were made where Stacey held his martial arts classes and no complaints or disclosures were made by his students who included children. There was no evidence that Stacey had committed other offences. Investigators found indecent im…

Essex Police is investigating claims that an officer ordered a driver to remove a "B******* to Brexit" sign from his car. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/police-officer-orders-driver-to-remove-b-to-brexit-car-sign-11870098