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Two drug dealers have been jailed for smuggling cocaine worth £38k into the UK alongside the dancer acting as their drugs mule. Raymond Yates, 36, from Croydon and Elijah Thompson, 28, from New Addington, both south east London, conspired with Jade Cherise Sarwar, 25, from Newton Abbot, Devon, to import half a kilo of the class A drug from the Caribbean. Yesterday (04 November 2019), at Isleworth Crown Court, Sarwar was sentenced to six years in prison for her part in a conspiracy to import Class A drugs. Yates and Thompson were jailed for the same offence and sentenced to nine and nine-and-a-half years respectively. The judge also passed a three-year travel restrict…

Property worth up to £8.1 million have been recovered by the NCA following a civil recovery and tax investigation. Property worth up to £8.1 million - including a villa in Tenerife, a Range Rover Evoque and 16 addresses in and around Bath, Somerset - have been recovered by the NCA following a civil recovery and tax investigation. Four members of the same family; Shane Davies, his wife Rhianna, mother Sheila and sister Tracey, agreed to surrender the assets, having conceded that they derived from the proceeds of unlawful conduct. The property portfolio was acquired between 1998 and 2007. Investigations revealed that between 2004 and 2009 alone, it generated rental a…

Two Dutch men who smuggled vast quantities of cannabis from the Netherlands into the UK have been jailed following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. Henrik Ruben, 28, and Dominic Leeman, 30, helped to import more than half a tonne of cannabis in two consignments of grated pizza cheese and salad toppings shipped to two warehouses in Slough, Berkshire. The drugs, which had an estimated street value of £5m, were intercepted at Dover Docks by Border Force officers on 16 June 2016 and 5 April 2016. Today (31 October 2019), at Maidstone Crown Court, Ruben, of Dieren, was jailed for six years after a jury convicted him of conspiring to import drugs. Leeman, of A…

Another suspected member of an international organised crime group responsible for importing in excess of 50 tonnes of drugs into the UK from the Netherlands has been arrested. Another suspected member of an international organised crime group responsible for importing in excess of 50 tonnes of drugs believed to be worth billions of pounds into the UK from the Netherlands has been arrested, as part of a National Crime Agency investigation. A man, aged 58, was arrested today (Wednesday 30 October) in Tarporley, Cheshire, on suspicion of conspiracy to import class A and B drugs, and his house was searched. He remains in custody for questioning. The arrest comes weeks af…

Four people have been arrested and five properties searched as part of an ongoing joint investigation between the National Crime Agency, Bulgarian law enforcement and Merseyside Police. A man and woman, both in their 20s, were arrested this morning at an address in Birkenhead, Merseyside, on suspicion of conspiring to import firearms. Another woman in her 20s was arrested at an address in Eastham, Wirrall, on suspicion of money laundering. A man in his 50s was arrested at an address in Upton, Wirrall, on suspicion of possession of class A drugs. The four were arrested weeks after the same investigation resulted in 13 arrests across Merseyside and Bulgaria and the re…

PC Andrew Harper: 5,000 bikers join 'ride in respect' for killed PC 27 October 2019 Image copyright PA Media Image caption A sea of motorcycles packed out RAF Benson, the starting point for the j…

Two men from Nottingham have been jailed for a total of five years after being found guilty of posting component parts of an AR15 assault rifle home while on holiday in Florida. Carlos Sen (26) and half-brother, Stephen Gibson (46), were convicted along with their partners, Rebekah Simons (25) and Louise Caswell (39), of conspiring to import and possess a firearm at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday. Sen was jailed today for three years, Gibson received a two-year sentence. Simons and Caswell were handed suspended sentences of 21 months and 15 months respectively. The NCA began investigating the importation in June 2017 after Homeland Security agents in the US inter…

County Lines drug networks have been targeted in a week of coordinated law enforcement activity across the UK. 17 October 2019 County Lines drug networks have been targeted in a week of coordinated law enforcement activity across the UK, leading to record numbers of more than 700 arrests, 681 people safeguarded, and almost half a million pounds worth of drugs seized. The targeted activity, co-ordinated by the National County Lines Coordination Centre (NCLCC), which is jointly run by the NCA and NPCC, was led by police forces and Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs). This is the fourth week of intensification since the NCLCC was launched in 2018, which have so far …

A truck driver who tried to bring an illegal firearm into the country has been jailed for two years and three months. A truck driver who tried to bring an illegal firearm into the country has been jailed for two years and three months, following a joint National Crime Agency and Police Scotland investigation. Officers from the joint Organised Crime Partnership unit were called in after a box containing 50 rounds of ammunition was seized by Border Force officers carrying out checks on incoming parcels at a distribution hub in Edinburgh, and acting on intelligence from the NCA. The package was on the way to John Stewart’s home address in Cook Street, Kirkcaldy. On 31 …