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A Croatian lorry driver has been jailed for six years after attempting to smuggle 20 kilos of cocaine into the UK. 

A man believed to be involved in arranging multi-tonne cocaine importations from South America to Europe has been extradited to Germany to face trial.

A London-based crime group who tried to smuggle 69 Albanian migrants into the UK on a dilapidated fishing vessel - and planned to bring in 50 more every week - have been convicted.

National Crime Agency investigators have launched an appeal to track down a man wanted as part of a firearms investigation.

Four people from Birmingham have been arrested and a loaded gun seized as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a suspected organised crime group involved in the supply of firearms in the West Midlands.

A lorry driver has been charged in a National Crime Agency investigation after a haul of 418 kilos of cocaine was found in a cover load of frozen onion rings.

Six men have been jailed for a total of 133 years after a National Crime Agency investigation uncovered their role in the supply of cocaine and a separate plot to torture and rob a Manchester man.

Cocaine with an estimated value of around £4 million has been seized at Avonmouth docks, following a joint operation involving the National Crime Agency, Border Force and Avon & Somerset Police.

Two men have been charged as part of a drugs investigation by the Merseyside Organised Crime Partnership.

A man from Lancashire has been jailed for more than six years for attempting to smuggle heroin worth almost £2 million into the UK in his campervan.

A Manchester man who used the encrypted phone network EncroChat to import cocaine worth £1.6m has today pleaded guilty.

Five people have been charged as part of a major National Crime Agency investigation into a criminal enterprise that supplied fraudulent passports to some of the UK’s most notorious organised criminals.

Three men have been convicted for importing illegal firearms and ammunition into the UK in the post, before trying to sell them to organised criminals.

A fugitive wanted by the National Crime Agency for his involvement in the supply of class A drugs worth millions of pounds has been brought back to the UK to face justice.

An unemployed university drop-out, jailed for running a dark web business selling illegal drugs, has been ordered to hand over more than £490,000 in bitcoin.