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Home News Child sex offender used online chat rooms to groom victims Return to News 10 March 2017 A County Tyrone man has been sentenced today after pleading guilty to 41 offences including grooming children under 13 online to perform sexual acts on camera. Michael Dynes, aged 39, from the Dungannon area was arrested in June 2015 as part of Operation Jarra, the joint PSNI/NCA investigation into accessing indecent images of children online. NCA officers conducted a search of his home and seized multiple electronic devices. Forensic examination of the devices found hundreds of video capture recordings of Dynes engaging in web chats with children, where he encourage…

Home News Doctor went on the run after arrest for obscene images Return to News 8 March 2017 A Romanian doctor who skipped bail after being arrested for possessing indecent images of children and extreme pornography has been given a prison sentence. Border Force officers at Dover stopped Ioan Boila, 55, from Alba Iulia in Romania in January 2013. In his car officers found a number of DVDs and VHS videos. The DVDs contained obscene images of women torturing animals. Boila (right) was arrested for importing indecent or obscene material and interviewed by National Crime Agency border policing investigators. He claimed to be travelling to the UK for a job interview t…

Return to News 4 March 2017 Eighteen people have been arrested as part of an international investigation into the smuggling of illegal migrants from Greece into Italy. Those arrested, all men aged between 18 and 23, were held after a series of raids in Crete yesterday (3 March), following an operation involving the Hellenic Police, Hellenic Coastguard and National Crime Agency. 112 migrants were rescued after being found in a cave and farm buildings close to the village of Tsoutsouros, Southern Crete. Officers also recovered a firearm from the scene. NCA investigators believe the suspects, including Syrian, Afghan, Pakistani, Egyptian and Greek nationals, are part of …

Return to News3 March 2017 A former family law solicitor has pleaded guilty to a number of child sex offences today at Bristol Crown Court. David Regan, 44, from London was arrested by officers from the National Crime Agency in September 2014 following a wider child abuse investigation. He was released on bail pending further enquiries but was identified in a separate investigation and re-arrested on the 9th of January 2017. Regan was initially charged with possessing an image of child sexual abuse and an extreme pornographic video, but today pleaded guilty to a total of ten charges including possessing, distributing and making indecent images of a child and possession…

Return to News3 March 2017 Two National Crime Agency officers have been seconded to support Australia launch the world’s first physically co-located alliance of public and private sector bodies aimed at combating serious financial crime. The NCA officers were specially selected for their expertise and experience working at the UK’s Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT – a partnership of UK law enforcement, government and banks) which was set up in 2015 and the JFAC (Joint Financial Analysis Centre). Their role will include sharing their experience of setting up the JMLIT and will contribute on global money laundering issues such as the Panama Papers – t…

Return to News03 March 2017 A man who tried to hide a laptop containing images of child abuse under his bed when law enforcement raided his home has been sentenced to seven and a half years for sexually abusing a child. Warwick Brooks, 42, had more than 3,000 indecent images of children on five electronic devices and trawled the dark web for abuse pictures. In March 2015 National Crime Agency officers tried to execute a warrant at Brooks’s rented home in Herstmonceaux, East Sussex. He was seen at the back of the house in the conservatory and when NCA officers identified themselves he ran off. Officers forced entry and found him upstairs where he admitted trying to hi…

Home News International operation nets huge Atlantic cocaine haul Return to News 28 February 2017 An international operation involving the National Crime Agency has led to the seizure of a 4.2 tonne consignment of cocaine off the coast of South America – the biggest in the Atlantic since 1999. The drugs were on board the St Vincent & Grenadines flagged fishing vessel Lady Michelle, which was targeted by US Coast Guard and Trinidad & Tobago units in international waters around 115 miles north of Paramaribo in Suriname on 16 February. Four members of crew, all Guyanese nationals, were arrested. The interception of the 70-foot vessel was the result of an…

Home News ‘Express delivery’ crime group bragged they could get cocaine to anywhere in London within the hour Return to News 24 February 2017 Members of an organised crime group who ran a moped delivery service for class A drugs have been jailed for over 60 years. The group distributed more than 40 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated wholesale value of £1.4m, across London over a period of three weeks in February 2016 Analysis of their mobile devices revealed that they had sent a group text message to over 400 potential clients, bragging that they could deliver anywhere “…within 30mins central London and within an hour anywhere else”. To mask their activity, th…

Return to News23 February 2017 The NCA has appointed two deputy directors general, two new directors and a new non-executive director. The moves are part of the programme of organisational change to increase the agency’s focus on the high end of high risk offending. Matthew Horne, currently Essex Deputy Chief Constable, will become NCA Deputy Director General (Operations), and Dr Nina Cope, who is currently Organisational Change and Effectiveness Director at High Speed Two, will become Deputy Director General (Capabilities). Both will join the agency in April, Matthew initially on secondment. Nikki Holland, Merseyside Police Assistant Chief Constable, is joining the ag…

Home News Two arrested after NCA raid on Hounslow freight warehouse Return to News 22 February 2017 Two men have been arrested on suspicion of importing cocaine after a National Crime Agency raid on a freight warehouse near Heathrow Airport. The men, a 45-year-old from Hayes and a 32-year-old from Southall, were detained at the warehouse in Hounslow in the early hours of Tuesday 21 February. Their arrests followed the seizure of approximately three kilos of cocaine discovered in air freight at Gatwick. Drugs were found in thin packages (see picture, right) concealed in the struts of a container, which was examined by Border Force officers after arriving into t…

Home News Two arrested after NCA raid on Hounslow freight warehouse Return to News 22 February 2017 Two men have been arrested on suspicion of importing cocaine after a National Crime Agency raid on a freight warehouse near Heathrow Airport. The men, a 45-year-old from Hayes and a 32-year-old from Southall, were detained at the warehouse in Hounslow in the early hours of Tuesday 21 February. Their arrests followed the seizure of approximately three kilos of cocaine discovered in air freight at Gatwick. Drugs were found in thin packages (see picture, right) concealed in the struts of a container, which was examined by Border Force officers after arriving into t…

Home News Firearms and ammunition seized from Birmingham property Return to News 23 February 2017 Two men have been charged with firearms offences after they were arrested on suspicion of importing illegal firearms and explosives into the UK. Umair Khan (29) from Caldwell Road, Bordesley, Birmingham was arrested by officers from the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) on Monday 20 February. Nazim Hussain (46) from Bromford Lane, West Bromwich was arrested the following day at Perry Barr Police Station. Working in conjunction with West Midlands Police, the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) and the …

Return to News 14 February 2017 Two men in their thirties have been arrested by National Crime Agency officers in connection with bribery offences as part of an ongoing investigation into international cricket match spot-fixing. The men were arrested on Monday 13 February and have been released on bail until April 2017 pending further enquiries. As part of the on-going investigation we are working closely with the Pakistan Cricket Board and International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption units. The Pakistan Cricket Board has launched its own investigation which has resulted in the suspension of three players. Share this Page: View the full article

Return to News 10 February 2017 A “predatory” child abuser who used gaming networks to groom his victims was today sentenced to three years and eight months in prison following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Christopher Topliss (pictured), 29, of Carlisle, started conversations with children on a games console network and then helped them to win in order to groom them. Officers from the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit discovered Topliss had established online relationships with a number of girls under sixteen and in one case had travelled to meet and abuse a victim. Sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court, judge Trevor Jones said his crimes were t…

Home News Investigation after £50m cocaine found on Norfolk beaches Return to News 10 February 2017 National Crime Agency officers have been called into investigate the discovery of around 360 kilos of cocaine that has washed up on two Norfolk beaches. On the afternoon of Thursday 9 February a member of the public contacted Norfolk Police having discovered a number of holdalls on Hopton Beach near Great Yarmouth. Police and Border Force officers initially attended the scene and secured the holdalls, which investigators suspect to contain cocaine. The seizure was referred to the National Crime Agency. This morning (10 February) a further small number of packages…