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Britain’s biggest ever drugs pipeline busted by National Crime Agency – Billions worth’ of drugs smuggled
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2019-10-10T20:30:00.000Z
2019-10-10T20:30:00.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/britain-s-biggest-ever-drugs-pipeline-busted-by-national-crime-ag" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237126087,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237126087?profile=original" /></a>By <a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank">Gangsters Inc.</a> Editors</p>
<p>Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) calls it “an industrial-scale operation – the biggest ever uncovered in the United Kingdom” involving the importation of over 50 tons of drugs worth billions of pounds from the Netherlands into the UK.</p>
<p>Thirteen men, aged between 24 and 59, were apprehended during dawn raids on Tuesday, in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=London" target="_blank">London</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Manchester" target="_blank">Manchester</a>, Stockport, St Helens, Warrington, Bolton, Dewsbury, and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Leeds" target="_blank">Leeds</a>. They are believed to be part of the British arm of a well-established organized crime group that used Dutch and British front companies to import <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marijuana" target="_blank">cannabis</a> – secreted within lorry loads of vegetables and juice – through United Kingdom ports over an 18-month period.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-untouchables-how-britain-s-top-gangsters-rich-off-armed-robbe" target="_blank">The Untouchables</a>: How Britain’s top gangsters got rich off armed robberies and smuggling tons of drugs</strong></li>
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<p>Four men and two women from <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">the Netherlands</a> were also arrested in April by the Dutch National Police on European Arrest Warrants. They are currently awaiting extradition to the Britain.</p>
<p>“We suspect these men were involved in an industrial-scale operation – the biggest ever uncovered in the UK – bringing in tons of deadly drugs that were distributed to crime groups throughout the country,” Jayne Lloyd, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=NCA" target="_blank">NCA</a> Regional Head of Investigations, said. “By working closely with partners here and overseas, in particular the Dutch National Police, we believe we have dismantled a well-established drug supply route.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Start of investigation</strong></span></p>
<p>The full extent of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug trafficking</a> operation the NCA allege these men were involved in was uncovered following the interception of three consignments in September 2018. They contained 351 kilos of cocaine, 92 kilos of heroin, 250 kilos of cannabis and 1,850 kilos of hemp/hashish, with a total street value of more than £38 million.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237125889,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237125889?profile=original" /></a>Subsequent enquiries led officers to believe they had imported drugs on numerous occasions between February 2017 and October 2018. This investigation linked to an NCA operation, where 13 individuals were jailed for a total of 176 years, after the seizure of more than 100kg of heroin in 2015.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Profile of</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-of-british-drug-boss-robert-the-voice-dawes-he-was-prepar" target="_blank"><strong>British drug boss Robert “The Voice” Dawes</strong></a></li>
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<p>Europol, Eurojust, Police of Finland National Bureau of Investigation, Border Force, HMRC and numerous police forces have also supported the NCA with the investigation.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>The accused</strong></span></p>
<p>The following men have been remanded to custody: Paul Green (DoB 26/03/65), of Eccleston, St Helens; Sohail Quereshi (DoB 08/07/60), Wood Crescent, White City, London; Mohammed Ovais (DoB 18/01/78), of Bournlee Avenue, Burnage, Manchester; Khaleed Vazeer (DoB 09/11/62), of Westwood Avenue, Timperley, Manchester; Steven Martin (DoB 12/04/71), of Chorley Old Road, Bolton; Mark Peers (DoB 07/02/64), of Norbeck Close, Warrington; Oliver Penter (DoB 01/07/82), of Gladstone Street, Stockport.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237127056,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237127056?profile=original" /></a>Andrew Reilly (DoB 24/11/81) of Grange Park Road, St Helens; Paul Ruane (DoB 25/01/65), of Bewsey Rd, Warrington; Ghazanfar Mahmood (DoB 03/12/70), of Green Lane, Bolton; Ifthikar Hussain (DoB 26/08/73) of Upland Grove, Leeds, West Yorkshire; Vojtech Dano (DoB 23/09/81), of Vulcan Gardens, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire; and Ivan Turtak (DoB 30/08/85), of Vulcan Gardens, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, have been released on bail.</p>
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<li><strong>READ:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/london-based-albanian-cocaine-gang-sent-to-prison" target="_blank"><strong>London-based Albanian cocaine gang sent to prison</strong></a></li>
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<p>All are due to appear at Manchester Crown Court, Crown Square, on November 7, 2019.</p>
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In the Irish city of Dublin, a crew known as “The Family” is flooding the streets with heroin and cocaine
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2019-05-16T18:34:07.000Z
2019-05-16T18:34:07.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/in-the-irish-city-of-dublin-a-crew-known-as-the-family-is-floodin" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237119852,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237119852?profile=original" /></a>By Gangsters Inc. Editors</p>
<p>Police in Ireland busted a member of what media call “a veteran crime gang known as <em>The Family</em>” and seized almost €300,000 euros of drugs. A 48-year-old man was arrested on Monday night in Ballyfermot, a suburb of Dublin.</p>
<p>Authorities are withholding the man’s identity, as is custom in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Ireland" target="_blank">Ireland</a>, but did report that two kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Heroin" target="_blank">heroin</a> with a street value of €280,000, and €12,000 worth’ of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> were seized during the raid.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Dublin’s The Family</strong></span></p>
<p>“The Family” operates in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Dublin" target="_blank">Dublin</a>’s Ballyfermot, Clondalkin and Tallaght neighborhoods and is said to be led by a 43-year-old man who served 6 years behind bars for possession of €2 million worth’ of heroin. He also has a history of violence, using shootings to intimidate rivals. His gang is <a href="https://www.herald.ie/news/gardai-seize-300k-of-drugs-from-veteran-mobsters-the-family-38112765.html" target="_blank">described</a> as “a highly unusual but very effective crew” with some members holding down steady, blue-collar jobs.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Smirking and laughing as his victims died violent deaths -</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/smirking-and-laughing-as-his-victims-died-violent-deaths-profile" target="_blank"><strong>Profile: Irish mob hitman “Fat Freddie” Thompson</strong></a></li>
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<p>Irish police have been targeting the gang for over two decades, which led to several big busts. In 2015, they seized over €3 million euros of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a>, three sub-machine <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Guns" target="_blank">guns</a>, two pistols and ammunition.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Throwing cocaine out of a hotel room window</strong></span></p>
<p>Two years earlier, in August of 2013, a 44-year-old gang member in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a> on business was so paranoid that the cops were on his tail that he threw out two suitcases filled with almost €4 million euros of cocaine out of his hotel room window. He received a 7-year prison sentence in 2015.</p>
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London-based Albanian cocaine gang sent to prison
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2018-03-17T08:44:10.000Z
2018-03-17T08:44:10.000Z
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<p>Three members of a London-based Albanian drug gang involved in trafficking cocaine with a combined estimated street value of £4.2 million have been sent to prison yesterday. All men had previously pleaded guilty following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP).</p>
<p>The drug crew was led by 26-year-old Mark Gurini, who was handed an 8-year prison sentence. Police arrested him at a petrol station near his home in Buckhurst Hill on 26 September 2017 and found him in possession of false Italian identification documents and discovered that he had two kilos of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> hidden in his car.</p>
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<li><strong>Read:</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/albanian-organized-crime-gangs-are-taking-increasing-control-over" target="_blank"><strong>Albanian gangs taking increasing control over Europe's drug markets</strong></a></li>
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<p>When police subsequently searched his flat on Queens Road, they found another 49 kilos of cocaine and further evidence that the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Gangs" target="_blank">gang</a> had been using the property as a base for their <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug dealing</a> business. It included £100,000 in cash, scales, a heat sealing machine and multiple ledgers containing customer details their orders.</p>
<p>Earlier that month two of the gang’s runners. 25-year-old Arbian Celaj and 22-year-old Abubaker Mohamed were arrested each carrying a kilo of cocaine. Celaj was sentenced yesterday to 5 years, while Mohamed got 3 years.</p>
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Genovese family mobster busted for using cocaine and marijuana while out on bail – Judge gives him a pass
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2016-11-02T08:20:58.000Z
2016-11-02T08:20:58.000Z
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<p>Talk about not giving a fuck. <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-genovese-crime-family">Genovese crime family</a> mobster Bradford Wedra (photo above) was in court on Monday where prosecutors asked the judge to revoke his bail after the 61-year-old wiseguy failed six drug tests – twice for cocaine and six times for marijuana.</p>
<p>The failed drug tests are in violation with his bail terms, prosecutors argued. They made a pretty good case and were helped by Wedra who told the court he has “no intention of stopping” his drug use, the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mobster-busted-drugs-bail-article-1.2853766" target="_blank">New York Daily News</a> reported.</p>
<p>Disregarding the fact that it might not be smart to say such things in court, what will Wedra’s colleagues in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mafia">Mafia</a> think?</p>
<p>Wedra was scooped up several months ago in a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/philly-mafia-boss-joseph-merlino-and-mobsters-of-5-different-crim">nationwide mob bust</a> netting 46 members and associates of New York’s Genovese, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gambino-crime-family-overview">Gambino</a>, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-lucchese-crime-family">Lucchese</a>, and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-bonanno-crime-family">Bonanno</a> families and Philadelphia’s <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-bruno-crime-family">Bruno family</a>. He is charged with racketeering conspiracy charges related to his suspected role in smuggling $3 million worth’ of untaxed cigarettes. Wedra pleaded not guilty. He already served a 25-year-sentence for a 1980 murder.</p>
<p>As a member of Genovese mob family capo <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/profile-genovese-crime-family-capo-pasquale-parrello">Pasquale Parrello</a>’s crew Wedra was allegedly <em>in the know</em> about a lot of crimes, including an alleged murder conspiracy. Though Parrello and his crew probably already knew about Wedra’s drug use, they might’ve thought it was recreational. Failing drug tests you know are coming due to the fact you are out on bail in a major racketeering case involving five <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=LCN">La Cosa Nostra</a> families is anything but recreational. It’s the behavior of an addict, a junkie.</p>
<p>No it isn’t, Wedra’s lawyer claimed. “Mr. Wedra has some developmental disabilities. He has some learning deficits. This has plagued him his entire life. It has been documented by psychiatrists that he has borderline mental retardation. The fact of the matter is, he cannot read and is very limited in his ability to write,” the lawyer explained, according to the New York Daily News.</p>
<p>It’s an explanation the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Genovese">Genovese mob</a> can get behind! <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/genovese-boss-vincent-chin">Vincent “Chin” Gigante</a>, one of its longtime bosses, evaded prison for decades by acting like a crazy person. He took showers in his robe while being sheltered by an umbrella and talked to parking meters while walking the streets of New York, but behind closed doors he ran the most powerful Mafia family in the nation.</p>
<p>For some reason, the crazy act works.</p>
<p>The retard act apparently did as well. The judge accepted Wedra’s lawyer’s explanation and gave the drug-abusing mobster another chance, telling him “This leash is going to be very, very short. We are not going to do this charade all over again, okay.”</p>
<p>Wedra was ordered to attend a drug-treatment program, the <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/01/mobster-dodges-jail-time-due-to-borderline-mental-retardation/" target="_blank">New York Post</a> reported. The New York tabloid offers a different account of Wedra’s reaction in court than the New York Daily News. They quoted Wedra as saying, “Your Honor’s 100 percent right. Everything you said I did. But I haven’t smoked in — six days is today. I am going to stop. And I give you my word that I will go to any services they send me to, any treatment.”</p>
<p>Whatever. Party up! Freedoooooom!! Woohooo!!</p>
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