18 h. ago Family claim 'corrupt officers and organised crime groups have flooded' prison where man died

They were speaking via lawyers after the inquest into their relative's death concluded on Thursday. The family claim measures that were in place to prevent drugs being smuggled into the prison weren’t effective

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52 h. ago Hired ‘kill team’ charged after dramatic arrest as they were on their way to hit near Sydney daycare

Police say the three, aged 18, 19 and 26, were on their way to kill a man linked to organised crime

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3 d. ago Moment armed cops arrest mafia boss in charge of one of Italy's bloodiest clans

Leonardo Gesualdo, 39, who is suspected of leading one of the most brutal organised crime families in Italy, was arrested by the Italian Carabinieri

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3 d. ago Phone snatching network behind one in four thefts in London targeted in police crackdown

An organised crime gang was behind ‘industrial scale’ theft of phones being shipped to China, Met Police say

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3 d. ago Firearms officer used excessive force in fatal shooting of unarmed man in London, misconduct hearing told

Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, killed during operation to stop plot to spring gang leader from prison in 2015A firearms officer used excessive force when he shot dead an unarmed 28-year-old man involved in a foiled attempt to spring a gang leader from prison, a police misconduct hearing has been told.The officer, known only as W80, killed Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, north London, during an operation to interrupt a criminal plot to snatch Izzet Eren, the head of the Tottenham Turks organised crime group, from a van heading towards Wood Green crown court in December 2015. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Fears Quebec Starbucks gang shooting could signal shift to brazen tactics

Local media named victim as Charalambos Theologou, shot as groups vie for power after arrests of alleged mafia bossesThe brazen daylight killing of a prominent Quebec gang leader inside a suburban Starbucks in the outskirts of Montreal this week could signal a new, more chaotic and brash environment when it comes to organised crime, observers say.The arrests of alleged senior, older members of Montreal’s mafia in June has potentially left a chasm – meaning newer, younger gangs are attempting to gain a foothold. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Devon and Cornwall police launches new £350,000 boat to stop people traffickers targeting their coastline

The Home Office hopes the vessel will act as a deterrent to organised crime groups and allow officials to intercept and board vessels when dealing with high-level threats.

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8 d. ago He looked like an honest businessman and dad, but was hiding a dark secret

The dad claims he became entangled as the director of debt collection agency run by an organised crime group after racking up a £20,000 drug debt

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1 week ago China sentences 11 members of mafia family to DEATH after breaking up giant ‘scam factories’ ring that stole £1BILLION

ELEVEN members of a notorious organised crime family have been sentenced to death over international scam centres. A Chinese court handed down the brutal sentence to multiple members of the Ming family, while other members were sentenced to suspended death sentences, life imprisonments, and fixed-term sentences. The fixed term sentences ranged from five to 24...

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1 week ago Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan 'hitman' fears reprisals if he's locked up

Michael Riley, 44, has been charged with gunning down Ross Monaghan, 43, and Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46 - two men connected with the Lyons organised crime family from the west of Scotland

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1 week ago War in Ukraine driving criminal gangs to target rural farm machinery for ‘lucrative rewards’

Organised crime gangs are suspected of stealing farm machinery to be trafficked out of the UK’s ports and destined for eastern Europe

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1 week ago Madeleine McCann was snatched by organised crime gang, claims private detective

Bombshell comes as 15 cops move the convicted sex attacker from the ground floor flat where he has been holed up following his release from a seven-year jail sentence for rape after locals rumble his identity

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1 week ago Gangland armourer who advertised machine guns to some of Britain's most terrifying criminals on EnchroChat and plotted to blind man with acid is jailed for 26 years

Philip Waugh armed organised crime groups across the UK with military grade weapons which he would flog on the now-defunct encrypted messaging platform Encrochat.

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1 week ago 'Wicked' organised crime group boss in £68m cocaine plot is jailed for 27 years

Kevin Taylor was the head of a much-feared organised crime gag that ran the streets of Newcastle for years but was finally brought down by determined police earlier this year

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2 w. ago The old café transformed into drugs lab by 'serious organised crime'

Stuart James was a 'prolific' producer of ecstasy tablets

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2 w. ago Police got more than they bargained for after they traced a package to a flat

Stuart James was a 'prolific' producer of ecstasy tablets

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2 w. ago Man denies the murder of mum Joanne Penney who was found with gunshot wound

Renaldo Baptiste, 38, pleaded not guilty to both a charge of murder and a charge of participating in an organised crime gang

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2 w. ago Shocking moment sneaky jewel thieves distract driver at petrol station and steal £2million out of car boot

THIS is the shocking moment sneaky jewel thieves distract a driver at a petrol station and steal £2 million from his car boot. An organised crime group targeted the jewellery salesman as he was travelling from Sussex to Kent last year. Three of the group have now been jailed after they followed the man to...

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2 w. ago UK’s first nitazene drug lab found in Ayrshire, police board told

The high-strength synthetic opioids sometimes mixed into other drugs can be dangerous due to their potency.

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2 w. ago Museums become targets for organised crime gangs due to soaring price of gold

Experts warn a spate of recent raids indicate that crooks are stealing items rich in precious metal to melt down for bullion as museums became the latest target on their hit list

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