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Benjamin Macann pedalled drugs throughout Norfolk before fleeing the UK.

Benjamin Macann made tens of thousands of pounds by supplying drugs and was named on a list of the UK's most wanted criminals.

'Most wanted' drug dealer jailed after two years on the run

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Jetmir Myrtaj after he was arrested for being involved with illegally taking migrants from France and Belgium to Essex.

The group ferried the migrants in small boats despite not having enough lifejackets.

People smugglers jailed for ‘dangerous’ migrant small boat crossings

Nana Oppong is charged over the murder of Robert Powell, 50, who was shot eight times at a party.

House party murder suspect extradited to UK

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Wakeling, who was convicted of organising drug smuggling in 2018, was tracked down to Thailand and arrested.

Richard Wakeling, from Essex, was jailed less than 24 hours after returning to the UK this week.

Most wanted crime boss jailed after five years on the run

Richard Wakeling fled the UK the day before his trial in Essex in 2018, but was tracked down and arrested in Thailand.

Most wanted crime boss arrested in Thailand five years after fleeing UK

The cocaine was discovered after Border Force officers scanned a wooden box which arrived on a flight from Cali, Colombia.

Cocaine-stuff duck statue used to smuggle drugs through airport

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Two pregnant women were among 69 Albanian migrants aboard the nearly-60-year-old boat, which was intercepted by border officials in November 2020.

People-smugglers jailed over plot to bring 69 migrants to UK

The migrants had paid an estimated £15,000 each to make the 14-hour crossing from Belgium to the UK, a court heard.

People-smugglers found guilty of plot to bring 69 migrants to UK

File photo dated 23/10/19 of police and forensic officers at the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, after 39 bodies of Vietnamese migrants were found inside the lorry on the industrial estate. Four men are due to go on trial this week for their alleged part in a people-smuggling plot linked to the deaths of 39 migrants.


A man has been arrested in Italy in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants found in a lorry in Essex

Italian arrest in Essex lorry deaths case

The National Crime Agency have charged a man with drugs offences after 20kg of heroin was seized at Harwich Port.

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