cannabis with a street value of £2 million has been seized, with police citing an increase in smaller personal and larger professional operations, run by organised gangs harvesting from huge factories.

cannabis with a street value of £2 million has been seized, with police citing an increase in smaller personal and larger professional operations, run by organised gangs harvesting from huge factories.

The true extent of the battle facing officers was revealed as they made their latest raid on a house in Durham Street off Holderness Road yesterday, recovering about 400 plants worth more than £100,000.

Sergeant Mick Stevenson, from the city's community reassurance team, said the number of raids they are carrying out has increased significantly.

"We are now carrying out raids every day," he told the Mail.

"It is getting busier and we will carry on disrupting these operations, which are being run by people who know what they are doing – they are professional, organised criminal gangs.

"To set up a factory like the one on Durham Street would cost in the region of £20,000."

Mr Stevenson also revealed a haul of 1,691 plants found in a house in Spring Bank, west Hull, in March has since been reclassified by the Forensic Science Service as being a super-potent strain of the drug, with a street value of more than £1 million – twice that of early estimates.

He also praised the public, saying fed-up residents were now calling in with intelligence about the large-scale operations with greater regularity.

Mr Stevenson said: "Maybe people are deciding to grow more themselves on an individual basis, but there are also more professional operations.

"We are here to disrupt the factories by seizing evidence and destroying the set-ups, but there are detectives working at the next level to track down the people running the show.

"However, I think the public should be given a lot of credit here because they give us the intelligence we need to crack down on these operations."

Yesterday's was the fourth major raid and established cannabis factory uncovered in the city by police this year.

Officers found the Spring Bank farm in March then seized 401 cannabis plants last month, with an estimated street value of £250,000, from a former wood yard in New Bridge Road, east Hull.

Police said that was the biggest haul in east Hull for many years.

Just three days after, neighbourhood police officers on patrol stumbled across a huge cannabis factory at a derelict property in Linnaeus Street.

Mr Stevenson said: "We get the big hauls like Durham Street, but also others of maybe 30 or 40 plants.

"I would ask anyone who suspects there may be a cannabis factory near them to contact us. It is neighbourhood intelligence that is helping us disrupt this activity and we need people to keep passing that on to us."

Long Van Nguyen, 30, and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have admitted cultivating the cannabis in the house in Spring Bank.

The men, both from Vietnam, are waiting sentence.

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Jose Guadalupe Rivas Gonzalez, who was captured by troops on an undisclosed day, was described as a top lieutenant of Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, the reputed leader of the notorious La Linia gang.

Mexico says a reputed high-ranking drug trafficker was in the custody of federal police Sunday following his arrest by the army in Chihuahua City.

Jose Guadalupe Rivas Gonzalez, who was captured by troops on an undisclosed day, was described as a top lieutenant of Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, the reputed leader of the notorious La Linia gang.

The Defense Ministry said in a written statement that Rivas was armed and in possession of 10 pounds of marijuana when he was picked up.

The arrest of Rivas may put Mexican authorities a step closer to Acosta, whom the El Paso (Texas) Times said Sunday was the most wanted man in Chihuahua and oversees one of the two violent gangs locked in a turf war over the border city of Juarez.

Acosta's right-hand man, Marco Antonio Guzman Zuniga, also known sometimes as "El Brad Pitt," was nabbed in Chihuahua City last week, the newspaper said.

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Mexican drugs gang the Knights Templar still fulfill its promise, 14 other members of La Familia Michoana found dead at different points.

Mexican drugs gang  the Knights Templar still fulfill its promise, 14 other members of La Familia Michoana found dead at different points.

The first discovery occurred around 07:30 hours, this in the Ejido Sahuayo, a gap known as La Palma , remained two bodies.

Then in the municipality of Cojumatlán of regulations, in the hamlet El Colorín two other men were found executed.

Meanwhile, in the town of Jiquilpan in the Alley of The Brotherhood, authorities found two men dead.

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Four Omanis held for smuggling 150kg of hashish

The Directorate of Narcotics Control in Oman foiled an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of hashish in Oman through sea route and arrested four citizens, according to a press release by the Royal Oman Police (ROP) Saturday.
"We have intensified our campaign against drug smuggling and its usage in recent times," said a spokesperson for the Directorate of Narcotics Control.
During one of the several raids in Muscat, the officers were tipped off that a group of Omanis had joined hands with Iranian nationals to smuggle a large quantity of hashish from the sea route.
Before the hashish could be smuggled in, police raided the group at sea in Seeb area of Muscat and arrested the accused gang of four drug smugglers.
The police confiscated 150kg of hashish and a boat used to smuggle the drugs, according to the press release.

 

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American father weeps as he's jailed for drug smuggling

A drug smuggler has been jailed for 30 months for bringing nearly $100,000 worth of cannabis resin into Bermuda on a cruise ship.

U.S. Citizen Carnell Jones brought the drugs onto the island in five hollowed out fibre glass hangers, which he hid in his luggage.

Jones travelled to Bermuda with his friend Latrice Bell from Boston on board the Norwegian Dawn.

The pair had previously met an unknown man at a hotel in Boston who handed them the hangers and told them to carry them to Bermuda.

Jones and Bell arrived in Dockyard on June 12, Magistrates’ Court heard today.

Jones then received a phone call from another associate and organised to meet the man in the Botanical Gardens where the drugs were exchanged.

The 39-year-old was paid $7,000 for completing the sale. He then went to Western Union and tried to transfer the cash to his wife.

However staff became suspicious due to the amount of cash he wanted to transfer and so asked him for proof that it was a legitimate income.

He was unable to provide such documentation and so took the cash back to the cruise ship and stashed it in the safe.

Customs officers then raided their cabin on June 13 and found the cash and the broken hangers which contained drug residue.

In interview Jones admitted bringing the drugs into Bermuda and passing them on to another man in the Botanical Gardens.

He said he had done it to pay off a drug debt his brother had racked up in Bermuda. His brother is currently in prison on the island.

Jones claimed that Bell had helped him bring the drugs into Bermuda in her bag and had helped carry them to the botanical gardens.

She denied the claims.

This morning Jones wept in the dock as he was jailed and his co-defendant was given a $1,000 fine.

The father of triplets repeatedly shook his head as the sentences were passed.

Bell, 20, was only charged with possessing a small quantity of cannabis which had been found in the cabin. She told police they had bought the drugs in Sandys and it was for their personal use

Senior Magistrate told Bell: “You should consider yourself a very lucky woman”.

Jones admitted conspiracy to import a controlled drug and trying to remove property from Bermuda which was the proceeds of drug trafficking.

 

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Adrian de la Garza, Attorney for Justice in New York, reported that it had managed to capture a man who participated in the kidnap and execution of two bodyguards of Rodrigo Medina

Adrian de la Garza, Attorney for Justice in New York, reported that it had managed to capture a man who participated in the kidnap and execution of two bodyguards of Rodrigo Medina, themselves who were brutally butchered and left to the full light of day a narcobanners directed to the Governor.

Officials said the detainee has been identified as Jesus Eduardo Rocha Cárcamo, aka The Mija, 18, ​​originally from New Laredo , Tamaulipas, and who was arrested hours after the discovery of the guards quartered, when performed operating in the Municipality of Fisheries for part of the Mexican Army.

And it is amazing the reaction part of the authorities, because usually when there are attacks, executions, etc., never stopped being different in this case.The appearance of the bodyguards butchered was around 07:30 hours on Wednesday, and operating in the fishery occurred at 10:15 pm the same day.


Authorities said they were doing the first inquiries in the town of Guadalupe, a place where they were abandoned pieces of the bodyguards of Medina, some witnesses said that those responsible for throwing the crew were butchered in a van Yukon , allegedly description of the van was the key to finding those responsible, and which had a satellite tracking device.

After officials said they had been witnesses, if not the great feature of a security camera located on Avenida Chapultepec where already there have been many violent incidents, and have never used the recordings to find those responsible in this premiered during the expensive equipment .


Then, the authorities report that in that truck Yukon rose escorts during the night of Tuesday, and also moved to Avenida Chapultepec butchered on Wednesday morning, but the vehicle had reported stolen several days, and that model is very common in the state of Nuevo Leon, the question is, why have not sought before the Yukon at the time of being stolen if it had GPS?, also during the early hours of that Wednesday, armed men who manned the vehicle had participated in an attack against elements of the Municipal Police of Guadalupe.

It is historic in so few hours are almost solved the case of Medina bodyguards, identified as Jose Antonio Cerda and Juan Manuel García Garza.Although there are certainly more responsible for implementing the double free.

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leader of the Zetas , Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, aka The Lazca had lost their lives in the city of Matamoros , Tamaulipas

several means of communication in the U.S., said the leader of the Zetas , Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, aka The Lazca had lost their lives in the city of Matamoros , Tamaulipas, this after that last hours there have been several clashes.

After several hours without confirmation of the fact, minutes before 20:00, Alejandro Poire, who is Technical Secretary of the Council of Security National of Mexico, said that so far there is no information that the Lazca is between the dead from the battle in Matamoros .

However Poiré confirmed a clash between members of the Ministry of Defence and a group of assassins, indicating that in short will issue a statement to report on the situation.

The official also said that the action failed to secure weapons and vehicles, but during the day there have also been other shootings in Matamoros , featuring members of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, resulted in several narcobloqueos same.

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An airship pilot died Sunday when the dual engines on his Goodyear airship burst into flames during a landing in Germany

An airship pilot died Sunday when the dual engines on his Goodyear airship burst into flames during a landing in Germany, Spiegel reported.

The airship’s three passengers managed to escape because the pilot, Mike Narandzic, urged them to jump out of the cabin when it was less than 7 feet off the ground, the paper reported. But after the passengers leaped to safety, the airship was soon engulfed in flames and soared to 150 feet due to the loss of weight in the cabin.

There is speculation that the airship’s propellers may have hit the ground too hard during the landing. Der Spiegel also cited media reports that indicated there had been a smell of fuel aboard the airship during the trip.

"We could also hear the cries of the doomed pilot as the fire surrounded him," one eyewitness said, according to the Daily Mail. "It was terrible."

Blimps are considered by many as the safest way to fly. This Goodyear blimp, an A-60, was filled with helium and had no danger of catching fire. But blimps have fuel lines and require internal pressure to maintain their shapes.

Nerandzic was a veteran airship who flew over 20 years. The native Australian has been called a hero since he ordered his passengers to jump while he manned the ship. When all seemed lost, he urged them to jump, saying, “We’re having a crash.”

The passengers included a photographer from Germany's Bild newspaper and two from RTL television, the Daily Mail reported.

The cause of the crash has not been determined,  but an investigation is underway.

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