Gangland villain's life of crime from 'real life Scarface' to 'supergrass' In 1995, John Haase was secretly considered a "supergrass" by police and Customs officials
'Tony the Tiger' was a boxing star before he was gunned down by masked shooter The ECHO has revisited the case of Anthony 'Tony the Tiger' Sinnott as part of its unsolved crime series
Spanish police say they have re-arrested British criminal Brian Charrington on suspicion of running a major cocaine network. According to the police, he imported large quantities of cocaine and distributed them along the coast from Barcelona to Valencia. The Dutch police also took part in the investigation. Charrington had also been arrested and tried in 2018.
Brian Charrington from Northeast England (1956) has a criminal history of more than thirty years. He became known as “Wikipedia Narco” because he probably painstakingly corrected and updated his Wikipedia page himself.
He was once an associate of the English gangster Curtis Warren, who spent a considerable amount of time in the Netherlands in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught. In 2018, Charrington was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Spain for cocaine trafficking.
After that verdict, he had been free for some time.
Suriname The new suspicion concerns, among other things, a shipment of 1,165 kilos of cocaine that was seized on a sailing boat that sailed from Suriname to Valencia and was intercepted near the Canary Islands. Police foiled a second attempt to ship a ton of cocaine by sailboat.
A total of 31 arrests and 23 searches were made, with assets worth ten million euros seized.
After the operational work, 1,165 kilos of cocaine were seized, hidden in the boats. During the course of the investigation, more than 300 surveillance operations were conducted and more than 100 telephone lines were intercepted.
Shotgun Upon his arrest, Charrington confronted officers with a shotgun, but ultimately surrendered without violence.
Among the assets seized in the searches are three boats worth 4,200,000 euros, 44 cars, 40 expensive watches, 60 works of art, 54 mobile phones, a virtual cryptocurrency wallet and three guns.
British do you know anything about Edinburgh OC and second question did the Thompson family jump ship to the Daniels or Lyons ... did Paul Ferris really retire?
British do you know anything about Edinburgh OC and second question did the Thompson family jump ship to the Daniels or Lyons ... did Paul Ferris really retire?
Billy, the youngest son of Arthur 'Godfather' Thompson was found dead in 2017 . Glasgow is interesting also with Celtic and Rangers, I believe the Lyons are Celtic fans.
British do you know anything about Edinburgh OC and second question did the Thompson family jump ship to the Daniels or Lyons ... did Paul Ferris really retire?
Billy, the youngest son of Arthur 'Godfather' Thompson was found dead in 2017 . Glasgow is interesting also with Celtic and Rangers, I believe the Lyons are Celtic fans.
Always been interesting that the great divide in Glasgow has never really been much of a factor when it came to OC with guys from both sides working together.
When you do some digging around on the internet you'll find some stories from people who were around when John Palmer was at the height of his power. His Tenerife exploits are legendary - I remember I read someone stating that Palmer practically owned that island back in the 90's lmao. He made way for quite a few notorious firms based in East/Southeast London, Essex and Kent to operate rackets in Tenerife. He had an issue with a certain Hezbollah-connected Lebanese clan after one of his roided up coked up henchmen blinded one of the Lebanese. The Lebanese flew in a small army of family members, but after a few fights they got chased off. Later on he allegedly fucked over a Russian gang as well who cooperated with him on one of his timeshare scams.
Between London firms, a Hezbollah-linked clan, Russian gangsters and others there must've been at least a hundred people that had good reason to take him out.
Speaking about Spain, I bought some hash at the beach, very good quality man, I sat on the balcony out my nut. I was told the Russians control the coke in Spain, well at least one city in Spain.
What rackets do OC control beside drugs? Loan sharking, murder contract, protection rackets?
Speaking about Spain, I bought some hash at the beach, very good quality man, I sat on the balcony out my nut. I was told the Russians control the coke in Spain, well at least one city in Spain.
What rackets do OC control beside drugs? Loan sharking, murder contract, protection rackets?
Tons of Russians in Marbella and Alicante. Not just Russians though. All over the Costa del Sol, the islands and other parts of Spain there's tons of hoods running around from any place in Europe with a substantial underworld. There's Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Lithuanians along with Italians, Albanians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Moroccans from Belgium and the Netherlands, Dutch, British (lots and lots from places like Liverpool, Essex, London, Nottingham, Glasgow...), Irish (tons of guys from Dublin), Lebanese, Turks, Turkish Kurds, Corsicans and Algerians from France, Somalis from Sweden, Arabs and Assyrians from Germany and Sweden, Israelis, Greeks, Antilleans from the Netherlands, Nigerians, Chinese, outlaw motorcycle club members from Denmark, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands...as well as Colombians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Central Americans, Venezuelans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans...and ALL of these backgrounds have people running around in Spain that are up to shady shit. Mainly a lot of money laundering, but there's a lot of international drug trafficking going on (mainly cocaine, hash/marijuana and party drugs), hits take place, car theft rings, scams (for instance timeshare scams are notorious and some London firms were huge in this racket in Tenerife years ago)...you name it...
The Spanish locals are fed up, but there's little they can do at the moment and there's no use picking fights you won't win...
Speaking about Spain, I bought some hash at the beach, very good quality man, I sat on the balcony out my nut. I was told the Russians control the coke in Spain, well at least one city in Spain.
What rackets do OC control beside drugs? Loan sharking, murder contract, protection rackets?
Tons of Russians in Marbella and Alicante. Not just Russians though. All over the Costa del Sol, the islands and other parts of Spain there's tons of hoods running around from any place in Europe with a substantial underworld. There's Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Lithuanians along with Italians, Albanians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Moroccans from Belgium and the Netherlands, Dutch, British (lots and lots from places like Liverpool, Essex, London, Nottingham, Glasgow...), Irish (tons of guys from Dublin), Lebanese, Turks, Turkish Kurds, Corsicans and Algerians from France, Somalis from Sweden, Arabs and Assyrians from Germany and Sweden, Israelis, Greeks, Antilleans from the Netherlands, Nigerians, Chinese, outlaw motorcycle club members from Denmark, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands...as well as Colombians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Central Americans, Venezuelans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans...and ALL of these backgrounds have people running around in Spain that are up to shady shit. Mainly a lot of money laundering, but there's a lot of international drug trafficking going on (mainly cocaine, hash/marijuana and party drugs), hits take place, car theft rings, scams (for instance timeshare scams are notorious and some London firms were huge in this racket in Tenerife years ago)...you name it...
The Spanish locals are fed up, but there's little they can do at the moment and there's no use picking fights you won't win...
'British drug criminal Curtis Warren wants peace in his life' August 27, 2024
British drug criminal Curtis “Cocky” Warren has been sentenced to 14 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, after breaching the terms of his pre-trial release, The Guardian reports .
Liverpool Warren (61) has pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to breaching six conditions following his release from prison in 2022.
Officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Warren at a home in South Tyneside in July last year .
Spain According to the charges, he failed to notify the NCA of an application for a passport, and withheld details of bank accounts, credit cards, debit cards and communications equipment. He also failed to inform the NCA of all his sources of income.
He also drove a car whose license plate he had not reported to the NCA. Finally, he failed to report a change of address or that he was going on a trip to Spain.
Jersey Curtis Warren served a very long prison sentence in the Netherlands for, among other things, dealing in hard drugs. He is one of the prisoners who spent a very long time in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught.
After his release, he was caught again for drug trafficking. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for large-scale smuggling of soft drugs to the British Channel Island of Jersey, and for failing to pay a confiscation order for £198 million in criminal money (almost 236 million euros).
Warren previously refused to accept a guilty plea and reduced sentence. His lawyer now says his client "doesn't want to be in the spotlight anymore" and wants peace in his life.
