11 Mar, 2020 @ 00:08
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British drug kingpin among most wanted in the UK arrested in Marbella on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Most Wanted Caught

Most Wanted Caught

A WANTED Briton has been cuffed on the Costa del Sol during a dramatic crackdown by Spanish police. 

The yet unnamed fugitive was one of four arrested in a series of raids across Marbella.

Aged between 29 and 38, the suspects are all accused of drug trafficking offences while the Brit was wanted under a European Arrest Warrant.

The UK national is suspected of being the ringleader of a drug trafficking operation.

Police raided nine premises and logged at least 18 cases of drug and firearm possession.

The UK national identified himself under an alias before police discovered he was among the list of the 10 most wanted Brits in the ongoing Operation Captura.

Operation Captura was set up by the UK’s National Crime Agency in a bid to hunt down the most wanted British fugitives across Europe.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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