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Return to News Two drug dealers have been jailed for 17 years after 20kg of cocaine with a potential street value of over £1.5 million was found in an Essex industrial unit. Daniel Reuter, aged 34, of Church Road, Billericay, and Kyle Cookson, aged 32, of Gladden Fields, South Woodham Ferrers, were stopped in a van by officers from the joint NCA and Metropolitan Police Service’s Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) outside an industrial unit on Ash Tree Farm Industrial Estate, Roxwell, in July 2018. An initial search of the cargo area at the industrial estate revealed a carrier bag containing envelopes with five one-kilo blocks inside, packed in with boxes of fr…

A man has died after being shot with a Taser by police in Shropshire. West Mercia Police said officers responded to a report of concern for the safety of a man at about 01:30 BST in the Trench area of Telford. A Taser was used on the 48-year-old man and after receiving medical help, he was pronounced dead at about 03:00 BST. Paramedics said the man went into cardiac arrest on his way to hospital. The death has been referred to the police watchdog. West Midlands Ambulance Service said crews were called by police to an address in Meadow Close. A spokesman said an ambulance was dispatched and upon arrival paramedics found a man who had been tasered. …

Huddersfield grooming: Twenty guilty of campaign of rape and abuse 19 October 2018 Twenty men have been found guilty of being part of grooming gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 in Huddersfield. The men were convicted of more than 120 offences against 15 girls. Victims were plied with drin…

Return to News 19 October 2018 An ex-police worker who used an online chatroom to view indecent images of children has been found guilty following a trial at Reading Crown Court. National Crime Agency officers arrested David Gunn, 55, on 9 June 2016 on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children. Investigators discovered Gunn’s online persona ‘smokepig’ was present in an online chatroom on 22 June 2015 where pre-recorded child sexual abuse was being streamed. Further forensic examinations of his electronic devices showed he accessed the same chatroom in August 2015 and invited other users to watch him abuse his – fictional – eight-year-old nephew. …

Anjem Choudary: Radical preacher released from prison 19 October 2018 Image copyright PA Image caption Anjem Choudary will serve the second half of his sentence outside of prison …

Home News 73 arrested as national modern slavery crackdown targets sexual exploitation Return to News 18 October 2018 More than 90 potential victims of slavery have been identified and 73 people arrested following a fortnight of law enforcement activity targeting modern slavery and human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation. The co-ordinated action which took place in September was led by the National Crime Agency’s Mo…

Return to News 16 October 2018 A 64-year-old man has been given a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for sexual offences against a child committed more than 40 years ago. Graham Stridgeon, now known as Tony Gordon (pictured right), from Fleetwood, Lancashire, pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault and one count of ####### on 10 September 2018 at Mold Crown Court. This followed an investigation by the National Crime Agency into historic child abuse at children’s homes in North Wales. Stridgeon and his victim were residents at the Bryn Alyn children’s home in Wrexham at the time of the offences. The abuse took place at the home between June 1…

Return to News National action to disrupt the drug dealing methodology known as county lines has led to more than 200 arrests and the safeguarding of 58 vulnerable people. With full results still to be collated, the week-long period of intensive law enforcement activity has so far delivered: More than 200 arrests 58 vulnerable people identified and safeguarded, including a number of children The seizure of deadly weapons including hunting knives, a firearm with ammunition, an axe, a meat cleaver and a samurai sword The seizure of tens of thousands of pounds of suspected criminal cash Significant quantities of heroin, crack cocaine and other illegal drugs sei…

Home News Smuggler had £1.4m cocaine hidden in fuel tank Return to News 16 October 2018 A Latvian man has been jailed for ten years for smuggling 14 kilos of cocaine with a street value of £1.4 million into the UK following a National Crime Agency investigation. Henri Kampans, aged 39, was found guilty following a four day trial at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday 11 October. He was sentenced the same day. Kampans was driving a va…

Westminster attack: Acting Met boss witnessed PC stabbing 8 October 2018 Related TopicsWestminster attack Image copyright Met Police/Social Media Image caption Clockwise from top left: PC Keith P…