But since several members were locked up as part of a series of different investigations, including the drug smuggling case, violent crime in Coventry has slumped. A man convicted of murdering a rival gang member in a drive-by shooting can now be named as Carren Monga. Leon Chapman drove a Porsche Cayenne and. Criminals recruited in their teens, towns over-run by Greater Manchester dealers, and parents, teachers and campaigners trying to save kids from being groomed. Drugs were in short supply during the first lockdown, but demand never eased up. One of the concerns around the pandemic was the loss of protective barriers around children. The facility houses Female Offenders who are convicted for crimes which come under California state and federal laws. A series of offenders were jailed for targeting Macclesfield with drugs supply in 2019, after an undercover investigation called Vulcanise. Now Xavie Cole, 18, of Swancote Road, Stechford, has been locked up for four years, having previously admitted ten charges of robbery. Convicted armed robber John Reed and his men imported hundreds of kilogrammes of the Class A drug from the Netherlands over the space of at least 18 months, a court heard. There was also just under a kilo of high-purity cocaine worth around 100,000 in the boot. The Childrens Commissioner for England estimates at least 27,000 are at high risk of gang exploitation. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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"However, this was a lie and in fact they were purchased in order to be re-activated and later sold to criminals. West Midlands Police suspected Woods involvement and swooped as he slept at his home in Wasdale Road, Northfield, on March 2. The Macclesfield case is one example of how, as county lines has become a priority for police forces and the National Crime Agency, the landscape is changing dramatically. When he was asked to stop at a cashpoint, three got out and one brandished a knife. They might be hundreds of miles apart, but they are locked in a deadly dance. But if you asked me to tell you about those gang members I could give you chapter and verse. But its all a lie. Meghann Will is a Co-Creator at Spiritual Gangster based in Irvine, California. We had a large group of children identified from one police investigation that we immediately, with police, recognised as victims of criminal exploitation rather than seeing them as drug dealers. Meghann Will's Phone Number and Email. They know authorities are looking at who they are staying with, if they stand out, if theyre ethnically different, or lost. Perhaps the best example I can give is that if you asked me to name most of the burglars in Coventry or most of the robbers I would struggle. The pandemic has exacerbated an already endemic problem with national lockdowns leaving some children virtually invisible from the adults tasked with protecting them. Convicted drug dealer Gareth James, who lived a life of luxury in a house "like something out of Grand Designs". An investigation revealed he had assets worth more than 140,000 including cash, a car and shares in three properties. Willing to use violence to establish themselves in a patch with soft competition, they will take over the homes of addicts and other vulnerable people to use as 'stash houses' - and exploit children as runners to carry out their deals. Police forced their way into Allens home back in June 2016. He and accomplice Riaz Ahmed were jailed for life in January for killing Abdul Wahid. The group were solely motivated by greed and preyed on some of the most vulnerable members of our communities. email newsletters - subscribe here. Four days later they were joined by 18-year-old Taylor Burns. However, his gangster lifestyle came to light when he was caught stashing lethal weapons in the boot of 27-year-old mother Bianca Willoughby's car in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. The true scale is simply not known as many of those being exploited and groomed fall through the cracks and are not identified in official statistics. And Manchester criminals have been active from Cornwall to Aberdeenshire. His CCTV cameras had caught him carrying two of them from his personalised red Jaguar X-type to his kitchen where he could then be seen peering into one. They found several heat-sealed bags of cannabis inside with a street value of 50,000. Originally from Solihull and with extensive business links to Birmingham, the 42-year-old crime boss oversaw the illicit trade from luxury hotels around the world and his hideaway in southern Spain. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. SPIRITUAL GANGSTER HOLDINGS INC. branch. Lee Cullen, 46, of The Avenue, Stratford-upon-Avon, Laurence McCarthy, 44, of Tiddington Close, Birmingham, Paul Frith, 43, of School Lane, Shard End, Birmingham and Sean Edwards, 36, of Roshven Road, Birmingham, all appeared at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday (29 June). When his friends were spoken to they started to say things like he knew that he couldnt get out of it, hes been trying to get out for years. The wholesale drug dealers shipped in huge amounts of cocaine, amphetamine and ketamine during an 18 month operation. The mastermind behind a drug smuggling gang which brought tens of millions of pounds worth of high-purity cocaine into the UK hidden in lorries has been jailed for 28 years. Whenever they go to nightclubs there tends to be crowds of women around them because theyre P1, but they dont flaunt what theyve got from crime.. Toms was jailed for five-and-a-half years while Iqbal was locked up for three years two months. Though she has had to leave her family, friends and job behind, she says: I miss my life. A further 205 were flagged about both criminal and sexual exploitation. 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