A massive haul of potentially deadly Class A drugs has been stopped from hitting UK streets after an international operation led by the National Crime Agency. More than a tonne of Class A drugs – 1,196kg of heroin and morphine derivatives – were recovered from container ship the ‘Sembawang’ after… Read more »
Five arrests and cocaine worth £1m seized as part investigation into suspected NI crime group
Five people have been arrested by the National Crime Agency as part of an investigation, supported by the Police Service of Northern Ireland, into a crime group suspected of attempting to import cocaine worth £1 million. Officers moved in to arrest the five on Thursday 10 September, detaining three men… Read more »
Truck driver jailed for two million pound cocaine smuggling scheme
A Polish truck driver has been jailed for twelve-and-a-half years following an investigation by the National Crime Agency into an attempt to smuggle almost £2 million worth of cocaine into the UK. Erwin Jozef Kuchowicz, 37, from Zaniemyśl, Poland, was stopped by Border Force officers at Dover in December 2019. They… Read more »
More than £1m recovered from two trucks leaving the UK
Two Turkish nationals charged with money laundering More than £1m has been recovered from two lorries trying to leave the UK. The money was concealed in the refrigerated motor housing of both vehicles on Friday morning at Dover’s Eastern Docks. At 2.45am Border Force officers stopped the first lorry. A… Read more »
Operation Venetic: Heroin lorry driver jailed after NCA EncroChat intelligence work
A Polish lorry driver has been jailed for 12 years after National Crime Agency officers used intelligence from the infiltration of an encrypted comms platform to catch him. In February an international law enforcement partnership cracked the EncroChat network – used exclusively by criminals to communicate with each other in… Read more »
Warwickshire Police increases Road Policing operations
Warwickshire Police is starting to see the results of a new shift pattern introduced in April 2020 that has allowed Operations Patrol Unit officers to conduct a significant increase in operations specifically designed to address road safety concerns and priorities. The new shift pattern means that Roads Policing Officers will… Read more »
Driver jailed for lorry cocaine stash
A man who tried to smuggle cocaine worth almost a million pounds into the UK has been jailed for six years and nine months. Krzysztof Darius Jezak, 45, from Poland, appeared at Canterbury Crown Court on 31 July, having pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing on 15 June. The National Crime Agency launched… Read more »
Three charged in international drug investigation linked to Encrochat
Three men have been charged in the UK and Netherlands following the seizure of over 50 kilos of class A drugs in a joint operation involving the National Crime Agency and Dutch law enforcement. Mark Youell, 63, Alfred Rumbold, 64, and Brian Wright, 72, were arrested on 29th July as part… Read more »
Driver arrested as part of Scottish drug supply investigation
A lorry driver from Scotland has been arrested following the seizure of around 150 kilos of cannabis at the UK-France border. The 43-year-old from the Motherwell area was detained at the Channel Tunnel terminal in Coquelles, northern France, 30 July as part of an ongoing National Crime Agency investigation into… Read more »
Two drivers sentenced to 12 months after driving the wrong way on A19, whilst over the limit
Picture courtesy of David Tarran. At a hearing last month, two HGV drivers, Arunas Valacka, 44 from Lithuania, and Andrei Vasilachi, 59, of no fixed address, both admitted to dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of alcohol. Both were sentenced to 12 months in prison Tuesday 28 July,… Read more »
