A van driver who attempted to smuggle heroin and cocaine worth £16.5m by hiding it within catering supplies has been jailed for 10 years. Ross Patrick Deffley, 26, from Solihull,…
A man who attempted to take £250,000 out of the UK by hiding it in the wheel arches of his vehicle has been sentenced. The National Crime Agency launched an…
A lorry driver who attempted to hide 16 kilos of cocaine in the battery area of an HGV has been jailed for seven years. The National Crime Agency investigated Romans…
A driver who removed his van’s fuel tank to pack it with 32 kilos of cocaine has been jailed for nine years and nine months. Ion Cazac, 40, from Romania,…
Three men have been jailed for a combined 40 years, after being found guilty of plotting a £4.5 million drug smuggling venture. National Crime Agency conducted a covert investigation into…
A lorry driver has been charged in a National Crime Agency investigation after a haul of 418 kilos of cocaine was found in a cover load of frozen onion rings.…
A man from Lancashire has been jailed for more than six years for attempting to smuggle heroin worth almost £2 million into the UK in his campervan. Michael Sloan, aged…
Suspected criminal cash totalling almost €560,000 will be returned to the public purse after the National Crime Agency secured a forfeiture order following a smuggling attempt by a Dutch man.…
A hidden compartment containing more than 18,000 illegal cigarettes was discovered at a shop in Gravesend during a joint operation involving police and Kent County Council Trading Standards. The hide…
A 45-year-old man has been arrested by National Crime Agency officers as part of an investigation into the attempted importation of almost a quarter of a tonne of cocaine in…
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