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SIX people who benefited from a combined £20million of profits from a lucrative drug dealing ring have been told they must repay a fraction of that…
A GANGSTER who organised a shooting which saw an innocent man gunned down on his own doorstep has been jailed.
POLICE have paraded digitally-aged pictures of the Cullen brothers – showing what they might look like upon their release from prison – around…
The first downfall Leon Cullen and his twin brother Anthony were born in the summer of 1987. Growing up in the Longford area of the town, Anthony was the more level-headed and popular of the two while Leon could prove to be a volatile character on occasion. It was not unknown for the pair to fall out from time to time, as brothers do. By the early 2010s, Leon and Anthony were beginning to gain notoriety in the criminal underworld. Leon soon rose to become the ‘mastermind’ of an 18-man drugs cartel which shipped at least 5kg of cocaine worth around £300,000 across the north west...
Cullen in custody after being extradited back to the UK Detective chief inspector Mike Evans, of the force's serious and organised crime unit, said: “Leon operated a network that was widespread and included the supply of cocaine and firearms to other organised crime groups across the north west. “When he fled the country in 2018, a significant policing operation began that was built on information from the local community along with other sensitive networks that centred on uncovering the identity that he was using to travel. “Once we knew the details of the false passport that ...