27 h. ago Acid thug Arthur Collins under investigation over 'prison drone drops linked to organised crime'

Arthur Collins, 33, who is serving 20 years for a nightclub acid attack that left 22 people injured in 2017, is reportedly a 'person of interest for drone activity' to prison bosses.

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32 h. ago Criminal battling to stay in Scotland after failing in bid to avoid extradition

Gheorghe Marcoci, suspected of bring involved in organised crime, fled Romania for Scotland in 2018 after being convicted of tax evasion and was later sentenced to eight years in prison.

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37 h. ago Afghan gang members who trafficked young boys on small boats to rape and blackmail them will be extradited from UK

AN AFGHAN trafficking gang member who smuggled young boys into the UK before raping and blackmailing them has been extradited. Zeeshan Banghis, also known as Bangash, and Saifur Rahman Ahmedzai would help organise the deprived operations. The crime ring exploited migrants from Afghanistan and smuggled them through Iran, Turkey and the Balkans into Europe, including France and Belgium. They would...

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39 h. ago Acid fiend Arthur Collins probed over drone drops at his prison after previously being caught with smuggled phone

JAILED acid attack thug Arthur Collins has been investigated over prison drone drops linked to organised crime, we can reveal. Prison bosses say he is a “person of interest for drone activity” and think he has tried to arrange deliveries of illicit items. He has previously been in trouble over a smuggled phone — and...

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42 h. ago In a community where organised crime was 'embedded', a quiet change has happened

'People didn't feel safe to go out at night or let their kids play outside - it was misery'

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4 d. ago Drugs and gangs exist in Venezuela, but don’t be fooled. Trump arrested Nicolás Maduro to plunder our wealth | Andrés Antillano

The US president invokes the usual suspects – drugs, organised crime, illegal migration – but this is simply a grab for resources and powerIn the early hours of 3 January, Caracas and other cities in Venezuela were bombed and the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was kidnapped along with his wife by US military personnel. In addition to the 100 deaths recorded so far as a result of the attack, approximately 100 more were caused by US attacks on small boats in the previous months, under the pretext of combatting drug trafficking. Although it seems clear that the real intention of Donald Trump’s administration was to seize Venezuela’s wealth, the initial argument to justify the military deployment in the Caribbean was that it was to fight the illegal drugs trade and stop the flow of migrants that the Venezuelan government was allegedly causing by emptying prisons of criminals and sending them to the US.As a criminology professor who has studied Venezuelan drug trafficking for 20 y...

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9 d. ago Scots crook a 'facilitator for illegal drugs and firearms' in encrypted message schemes

Allan Hughes, 30, from Clydebank recorded himself with deadly firearms he was attempting to sell before being caught by the Organised Crime Partnership.

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1 week ago Mum of teen jailed in Qatar begs UK Government to help free son

Lino Neil is stuck in a jail in Doha, Qatar, and could face years in prison unless he can prove he was exploited by an organised crime group

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2 w. ago Ecuador beach shooting leaves six dead including girl, 2, as gunmen open fire on tourist hotspot

The horror shooting was reportedly the result of a dispute between organised crime groups

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3 w. ago How Eastern European organised crime gangs slashing lorries and stealing goods are pushing up the price of your shopping

With almost 90 per cent of Britain's freight moved by road it's of little surprise that lorries are an increasingly regular target of Britain's seedy criminal empires.

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3 w. ago Two Merseyside prisons rampaged by drugs and violence, investigation into the jails showed

A report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons in 2025 found both the HMP Liverpool and HMP Altcourse were battling violence, organised crime groups, drugs and failing infrastructure

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3 w. ago Suspects snared in EncroChat drug probe struck sponsorship deal with Motherwell FC

TWO businessmen who struck a sponsorship deal with Motherwell FC have appeared in court charged with supplying cocaine linked to organised crime. David Stephen and Shaun Paul Brown, from DX Home Improvements, are further accused of arranging the transport and delivery of drugs and collecting illicit cash. It comes 16 months after their construction firm...

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3 w. ago Two men in court on Christmas Eve over organised crime charges amid huge police crackdown

The pair, both aged 30, appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on December 24 on organised crime and drugs charges.

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3 w. ago Grave digger turned drug dealer jailed after not telling police where he lived

Former organised crime group member Leon Ley admitted he had been 'cavalier at times' in adhering to the terms of a court order designed to stop him re-offending

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3 w. ago Organised crime cops arrest two men in Scots town amid huge operation

The pair, both aged 30, were arrested and charged in Cambuslang and will appear in court on Christmas Eve.

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3 w. ago Scots gangster torched salon linked to kingpin in chilling 'f*** over my pals' vow

Logan Carlin, 24, pleaded guilty to setting fire to Belle Cheveux beauty salon and DB Auto Services in Edinburgh on March 6 and March 16 in attacks linked to serious organised crime

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