11 h. ago Drug smuggler said he was bringing dry ice in for London hospital... but inside lorry was 285kg of cocaine with a street value of £22.8MILLION

Bart Verschueren, 40, was the man behind at least one drug operation which aimed to smuggle in 285kg of cocaine into the country.

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17 h. ago Drug smuggler hid cocaine worth £22.8m under dry ice he claimed was for London hospital

Bart Verschueren has been jailed for 18 years for the smuggling plot

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7 d. ago Inside the lavish lives of the glam drug smuggling pals caught with £160,000 worth of cannabis in their luggage

Pals Sophie Bannister and Levi-April Whalley from Blackburn, were snared with 35kg of the Class B drug in their luggage as they returned from a trip to New York in December 2023.

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8 d. ago Drug smuggling pals found with 35kg of cannabis in their luggage at UK airport

Sophie Bannister and Levi-April Whalley, both 30 were caught with more than £160,000 worth of cannabis in their suitcases as they landed back on UK soil from a 'shopping' trip to New York.

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2 w. ago Crooked prison worker and mum plotted to put 'snitch' drug smuggler lag 'in body bag'

Jada Wilson, 25, an employee at HMP Featherstone used her security system to confirm to her mother Ezerine Manning the whereabouts of a prisoner that an associate wanted to kill

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3 w. ago 'Big Sh*gger' smuggled cigs and drugs into UK hidden inside shipment of pasta

Drug smuggler Paul Wilson has been jailed alongside his brother for their part in a network that shipped drugs and cigs into the UK hidden in shipments of pasta

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3 w. ago Four Brit 'drug smugglers' are paraded by Thai cops and face years in prison after they were 'caught trying to fly £1.7million of cannabis out of paradise island'

Four British tourists have been paraded by Thai police after being arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle £1.7million of cannabis out of an airport in Thailand.

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3 w. ago Royal Navy chases down drug smugglers and finds huge haul of heroin and methamphetamine

HMS Lancaster launched its Wildcat helicopter after spotting suspicious activity from two boats side-by-side

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4 w. ago Drug smugglers posed as fishermen in bid to sneak £100million of cocaine into Britain

The four offenders were caught in the act on September 13 last year while one of them lay asleep on a deckchair.

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4 w. ago Man from Manchester caught on fishing boat with £100million worth of cocaine

Michael Kelly told police he was on a fishing trip after his arrest, but later pleaded guilty

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