12 h. ago Police find drug dealer carrying machine gun bullets during raid

Kareem Abdo, 30, later told police he had learning difficulties and people "took advantage of him".

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28 h. ago Moment police raid Christmas market and arrest 11 'illegal migrant workers' from India, Iraq and China

Nine men of Indian, Iraqi and Chinese nationality were detained at Kempton Park Market. A further two men of Indian nationality were arrested at a nearby residential address.

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4 d. ago Moment police officer shouts 'wow!' after finding plate of cocaine in fridge during drugs raid

Police bodycam footage shows officers smashing into a Derby home on Brook Street, where they uncovered 10kg of drugs along with £10,000 in cash, vapes, phones and laptops.

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7 d. ago Police raid Argentine soccer clubs and AFA as part of investigation into alleged money laundering

Argentine federal police have raided the headquarters of the Argentine Football Association and at least 17 soccer clubs

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8 d. ago Turkish police officer dies from gunshot wounds suffered in Istanbul drug raid

Turkish officials say a police officer has died after being shot during a drug raid in Istanbul

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1 week ago The spreadsheet that laid bare the staggering inner workings of a cocaine and ketamine dealing gang

They were, according to detectives, 'one of the most significant organised crime groups operating in the North West and beyond' with the scale of their business described as 'staggering'

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1 week ago 'F***k this is going to be great for us': Boasting text helped nail drug baron and his gang

Jack Donegan boasted to his girlfriend about the huge profits flooding the north west with cocaine and ketamine

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2 w. ago Former EU top diplomat among three held in fraud investigation

Belgian police raid EU foreign service HQ and College of Europe and arrest Federica Mogherini and two othersBelgian police have arrested three people including the EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini and raided the headquarters of the EU foreign service and the elite College of Europe as part of an investigation into suspected fraud.The three were detained “as part of a probe into suspected fraud related to EU-funded training for junior diplomats”, the European public prosecutor’s office said in a statement, without naming individuals. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Three Brits among 201 naked men arrested in raid on 'health centre' sex den

A police raid in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that saw 201 naked men arrested reportedly had three British males among them as cops suspected a health centre of being a sex den

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2 w. ago Police officer screams after pulling back shower curtain in basement raid

An officer screamed after pulling back a shower curtain whilst searching through a London basement.

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2 w. ago 201 naked men in 'health centre' sex den update after 171 freed in 'victimless' case

Following a police raid on an alleged health centre in Kuala Lumpur, 171 of the 201 naked men arrested on the scene have been released without charge in a 'victimless' case, a magistrate decided

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3 w. ago Moment Palestine Action activist 'fractures female police officer's spine in sledgehammer attack' during raid on 'Israeli

Samuel Corner, 23, is accused of causing Police Sergeant Kate Evans grievous bodily harm when he allegedly struck her in the back with a sledgehammer and fractured her spine.

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3 w. ago Father and son who smuggled £20million worth of heroin into Britain inside pomegranate juice cartons are spared prison

Colin Bartlett, 54, and Lee Bartlett, 30, from Birmingham, operated in an organised crime gang that imported pomegranate juice laced with heroin from Afghanistan.

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3 w. ago Police raid that uncovered mysterious locked safe sees five gang members behind bars

Five people have been sentenced to 19 years and two months in prison after police raided a property and pulled a man over

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3 w. ago Armed police raid city centre apartment block as two arrested for false imprisonment

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of money laundering and false imprisonment offences

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3 w. ago Police raid Valium factory at garage and make another discovery behind a picture frame

Over £250,000's worth of drugs was found in the raid

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4 w. ago New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’

Parliament approves law giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in what are demarcated as security risk areasSlovenia’s government has been accused of turning Roma neighbourhoods into “security zones” after the passing of a law giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in so-called “high-risk” areas.At midnight on Monday, the country’s parliament backed the “Šutar law”, named after Aleš Šutar, who was killed in an altercation with a 21-year-old Romany man after rushing to a nightclub after a distress call from his son. Continue reading...

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last month 'Wicked' arsonist, sexual predator and drugs gang among Greater Manchester residents now waking up behind bars

The Manchester Evening News looks back on the cases before our courts this week

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