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Showing 1 - 10 of 11 results for crime type "Drug offences" & area "CPS"
A woman from Bradford who enlisted her own children into a sophisticated £5 million pound cocaine smuggling operation was jailed for more than 13 years today at Birmingham Crown Court.Farzana Kauser, 54, headed up the Bradford-based gang, five of which were her own children, including two who were…
Six people who exploited Vietnamese workers who had been smuggled into the UK for forced labour on cannabis farms have been imprisoned.Mai Van Nguyen, 35, Duong Dinh, 38, Nghĩa Dinh Tran, 30, Shamraiz Akhtar, 54, Tasawar Hussain, 54, and Amjad Nawaz, 43, were found guilty of conspiracy to…
Two brothers from an organised crime family who were jailed for their part in the theft of £1.2 million worth of cocaine from a Liverpool-based organised crime group have been ordered to payback £80,826 or spend nine months more in prison.Jason, 38, and Craig Cox, 35, raided a house in Liverpool in…
Two men who smuggled a vast quantity of cocaine into the United Kingdom in a high-stakes operation at sea have been jailed.Stephen Lloyd-Jones, 56, Kursat Kizilkaya, 33, and Tiamo Zanaj, 33, were found guilty of a conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the country after a five-week trial concluded at…
A former prison officer from South Wales has been jailed for six years after large amount of controlled drugs were found in her car.Jodie Beer, age 30, of Llanharry, Rhondda Cynon Taff, was a prison officer in Parc Prison, Bridgend, when she was caught with the drugs in February 2022. During a…
A leader of a criminal gang which tried to smuggle millions of pounds worth of illegal drugs into the UK in a shipment of bananas has today been convicted. Sajid Ali, 56, from Birmingham, directed four men - Robert Ball, Mirgent Shahu, Arman Kaviani and Florjan Ibra - in a drug smuggling…
A ringleader who organised the importation and supply of Class A drugs disguised in printer ink has today (24/04/2024) been found guilty at Isleworth Crown Court.Jonathan Strogylos, 36, was one of a group of twelve men involved in a large-scale operation to supply cocaine.Strogylos ran and…
Press ReleaseDrug offencesInternational and organised crimeCPS
Three men have today been jailed for their involvement in a drug enterprise which saw the large scale selling of drugs on the dark web and their onward transmission via post in disguised packaging.Joe McNally, 33, Robert Brewster, 55, and Benjamin Martin-Bynoe, 34, were sentenced at Reading Crown…
Press ReleaseInternational and organised crimeDrug offencesCPS
A drug dealer who was caught red-handed with party bags containing cannisters of laughing gas alongside balloons and candy canes has become the first person to be jailed for possession of the class C drug since it was outlawed by the Home Office.Thomas Salton, 30, from Brentwood in Essex was found…
Two men, whose conspiracy to smuggle drugs and cigarettes into the UK was foiled after a farmer accidentally spotted a consignment of cocaine, have been handed lengthy prison sentences today.
The scheme involved the pair using their freight company as a cover to clear shipping containers that…
Press ReleaseInternational and organised crimeDrug offencesFraud and economic crimeCPS
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Media protocol
To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.
