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The Taits were arrested in April last year as part of the national Operation Venetic. As part of the investigation, searches were carried at properties connected to the family in Byker, Kenton and Cowgate and a haul of weapons, including a home-made hand grenade and Class A drugs worth in excess of £125,000, were recovered. Thomas Tait Snr was arrested following a search of his Kenton home where officers found a Glock pistol and two kilos of Cocaine. His son, Thomas Tait Jnr, was arrested shortly after showing up at the property.  Later that evening, a further search was conducted�...

Anne-Marie Glendenning, 63, kept a machine gun, a hand grenade and a Glock pistol in her wardrobe, police have revealed The 63-year-old mother of an 'untouchable' crime family kept a machine gun, a hand grenade and a Glock pistol in her wardrobe, police revealed today as the entire family is jailed for weapons and drugs crimes. Officers raided three properties in Newcastle where they found the illegal booty in a sweeping national crackdown on serious and organised crime. Police uncovered a home-made hand grenade, a Stribog carbine machine pistol, three self-loading pistols and more than 300...