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.
