UK Policing News

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Two men accused of distributing heroin in the Yorkshire and Humber region have been charged after 56kg of heroin, worth an estimated £3million at street level, and around £100k cash was seized. The pair were detained on Thursday 17 October, as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation, supported by West Yorkshire police. Yusuf Kara, 30, of Glendare Avenue, Lidget Green, Bradford, and Fayyaz Ashraf, 36, of no fixed address, formerly of Bradford, were both charged on Friday 18 October with conspiracy to supply class A drugs and money laundering. They appeared at Leeds Crown Court today (Saturday 19 October) and were remanded to custody to appear at Leeds Crown…

A woman arrested by the National Crime Agency in Bristol last week as part of an investigation into human trafficking has now been charged. 44-year-old Joanna Gomulska, from Lockleaze in Bristol, was initially released on bail following her arrest on 8 October, but today (Thursday 17 October) was charged with 21 offences relating to human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation. She was also charged with one offence of money laundering and one offence of possessing articles to be used in fraud. Gomulska has been bailed to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court on 31 October. 43-year-old Slovakian national Maros Tancos, of Thingwall Park, Fishponds, was previ…

Three-hundred and thirty-seven suspects have been arrested globally in multi-agency operations sparked by a National Crime Agency investigation into one of the UK’s worst ever child sex offenders. The arrests were made in 38 countries including the UK, Ireland, America, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic and Canada. Welcome To Video was taken down by an international taskforce set up by the NCA and included Homeland Security Investigations and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation in America, the South Korean National Police and Germany’s Federal Criminal Police. The site – run from South Korea – containe…

A man who illegally imported handguns from Spain into Scotland has been jailed for three years and ten months. A man who illegally imported handguns from Spain into Scotland has been jailed for three years and ten months, following an investigation by the joint National Crime Agency and Police Scotland Organised Crime Partnership. Douglas Urquhart was arrested after a raid on his home in the village of Loanhead, Midlothian in May this year. Four illegal firearms and over 40 bladed weapons were recovered from the 45-year-old’s property. The guns, front-venting blank firers which are illegal in the UK, were all found in a ‘panic room’ hidden in the basement. The room…

Hundreds of blobby bobbies are not fit enough for the job, a Sunday Mirror investigation can reveal. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hundreds-police-not-fit-enough-17483097

FIVE people have been stabbed in an attack at a Starbucks in a Manchester shopping centre today. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10114078/arndale-centre-evacuated-after-stabbing-in-manchester-city-centre-as-police-taser-suspect/

A pensioner has been given a suspended sentence after making more than 50,000 child abuse images. Michael Aitken, 67, of Poplar, London, admitted the crimes in September after a National Crime Agency investigation. When NCA officers arrested him in March 2018 they recovered 22 electronic devices from his home including three hard drives, a laptop and a desktop computer. Between November 23 and 25, 2017, Aitken made more than 840 child abuse files available for others to download. Officers investigating the offences resolved the IP address to his home where he lived alone. Aitken was arrested on 6 March 2018 and taken into custody where he was interviewed but provid…

A man arrested in Bristol on Tuesday as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into human trafficking has been charged. 43-year-old Slovakian national Maros Tancos, of Thingwall Park, Fishponds, is due to appear before Bristol Magistrates today (Thursday 10 October). He will face 12 charges under the Modern Slavery Act 2015, six of holding someone in servitude, and a further six counts of subjecting someone to forced or compulsory labour. A 44-year-old Polish woman who was also arrested on Tuesday has been released on bail. The arrests follow a two year NCA investigation into the suspected exploitation of dozens of predominantly Slovak migrants, who would …

Charges relate to the importation of £billions worth of drugs Wednesday 9 October Suspected members of an international organised crime group – arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the importation of cocaine, heroin and cannabis worth billions of pounds – have been charged with conspiracies to import class A and B drugs. The thirteen men, aged between 24 and 59, were apprehended during dawn raids yesterday (Tuesday 8 October) across London, Manchester, Stockport, St Helens, Warrington, Bolton, Dewsbury, and Leeds. This evening the following individuals were charged with four counts of conspiracy to import class A drugs and four counts of c…

A man and woman from Bristol have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the trafficking of Slovakian nationals into the UK for labour exploitation. The alleged ringleader of the network, a Slovakian man aged 43, and Polish woman aged 44, were detained on suspicion of Modern Slavery Act offences, money laundering and fraud by NCA officers in the Fishponds and Locklease areas of Bristol yesterday (Tuesday 8 October). They are now being questioned. The arrests follow a two year NCA investigation. They are suspected of exploiting dozens of predominantly Slovak migrants, who would be transported to the UK and then put to work in labouring job…