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2024-03-29T14:45:21Z
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Dear Lord – Crime group used Christian ministry as front for £2 million cannabis importation from Jamaica
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2022-12-02T11:14:17.000Z
2022-12-02T11:14:17.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10898000255?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a> Editors</p>
<p>In the name of God, let’s get high. Of course, things aren’t that simple. Though God’s laws apply, the laws of justice tend to overrule those set by God. Especially when you are just using religion as a way to bypass the justice system, like a criminal group which used a religious charity as a front for importing 400 kilos of cannabis into the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>The National Crime Agency investigated 50-year-old Dalton Anderson, 45-year-old Alvin Russell, 64-year-old Sinclair Tucker after Birmingham based organization Vision Christian Ministries (VCM) was used to smuggle the drugs – worth up to £2 million when sold in the United Kingdom.</p>
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<p>The cannabis was trafficked from Jamaica to Britain, via Birmingham Airport, and had been packed into sealed tins of Calaloo, a Jamaican green vegetable, and Akee fruit.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10898000264,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="10898000264?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a><strong><em>Custody photos of Sinclair Ory Tucker, Dalton Anderson and Alvin Russell</em></strong></p>
<p>It was shipped in three separate consignments addressed to VCM between March and May 2017 and seized by Border Force.</p>
<p>Sinclair Ory Tucker, Dalton Anderson and Alvin Russell were arrested at the airport on May 23 of that year, while inspecting the third consignment which had just arrived.</p>
<p>NCA investigators established that they organized the imports and collected the drugs from the airport. Anderson and Russell also spent some time in Jamaica when the importations were made, handling money and providing shipping documentation to VCM via Tucker.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Charged and convicted</strong></span></p>
<p>All three were charged with conspiracy to import cannabis, with Anderson also charged with possession with intent to supply after five kilos of cannabis was found at his home following his arrest.</p>
<p>Anderson was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court on November 29, with the other two found guilty on November 30, following a five week trial. They are due to be sentenced at the same court on January 27 next year.</p>
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<p>“Anderson, Tucker and Russell cynically used a Christian ministry as a smokescreen to import huge quantities of cannabis into the UK,” NCA Operations Manager Rick Mackenzie said. “They wrongly believed that this would put them beyond the reach of the National Crime Agency and our law enforcement partners.”</p>
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Gang who ran firearms conversion workshop sentenced to prison
https://gangstersinc.org/blog/gang-who-ran-firearms-conversion-workshop-sentenced-to-prison
2022-10-16T07:08:01.000Z
2022-10-16T07:08:01.000Z
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<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10842999696?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>By <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a> Editors</p>
<p>Members of a British organized crime group who bought scores of blank firing handguns to convert into live weapons have been jailed on Tuesday for a total of almost 14 years. National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators established that 31-year-old Perhys Neale bought around 45 legal blank firing Turkish Retay 84FS pistols from gun stores in the Midlands area, including shops in Birmingham and Tamworth.</p>
<p>With original lethal purpose guns being illegal and relatively difficult to obtain, criminals wanting firearms often seek converted blank firing weapons. Each of the weapons bought by Neale cost around £100, but would have been worth at least £2,500 on the criminal market once converted to fire live ammunition.</p>
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<p>Neale was driven by accomplice Shaun Williams, 33, on multiple occasions to buy the weapons using cash, which were then passed to 31-year-old Christopher Watson, who himself bought one pistol.</p>
<p>The barrels were drilled into to enable them to fire live rounds, using a drill and fittings, before the weapons were coated in heat resistant black paint to make the blue side of the pistols appear more authentic.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Text message</strong></span></p>
<p>In one text message to his girlfriend, Neale said that he was getting four pistols converted, which would potentially make him around £9,000.</p>
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<p>Watson and Williams were arrested on November 5 last year, after armed West Midlands Police officers – acting at the request of the NCA - descended on a white transit van travelling near ‘Spaghetti Junction’ in Birmingham. Watson was driving the vehicle at the time.</p>
<p>Two firearms which had been broken down into their constituent parts were found in the passenger foot well, along with a pack of 9mm ammunition.</p>
<p>NCA officers searched the three men’s homes in Birmingham. They found a Clarke Metal Worker drill and fittings in Watson’s house along with debris from the base of the drill, and a small cannabis farm at Neale’s flat.</p>
<p>The trio pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court on June 8, and were sentenced at the same court on October 11. Watson was jailed five years and three months, Williams to four-and-a-half years and Neale to four years.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“Illegal firearms feed serious violence”</strong></span></p>
<p>NCA Branch Commander Mick Pope said: “Illegal firearms feed serious violence, intimidation and coercion in our communities. It is chilling to think that the dozens of blank firing weapons this gang bought could have been destined for organized criminals as viable handguns. Seizing such weapons, with the help of our partners at West Midlands Police, protects the public from this serious threat. I’ve no doubt more handguns would have been produced had we not intervened.”</p>
<p>It is illegal to modify or adapt top or side venting blank-firing firearms into viable weapons. The NCA works closely with industry, trade groups and retailers to prevent their availability and use by UK criminals, as well as with multiple partners overseas to prevent them from entering the UK supply chain, either through lawful or unlawful channels.</p>
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