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Stephen Metcalfe, 45, was part of an international £186m heroin and cocaine conspiracy

Four members have been ordered to pay back some of the proceeds made from the plot

Stephen Blundell, 43, has breached his licence conditions and is wanted by police

The place where Chris gets his fentanyl is bright and airy, all blond wood and exposed brick. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable about the potency of the pills he can crush, cook and inject.

MUMBAI: A citizen of Angola, who smuggled 1.5 kg of heroin worth around Rs 10.45 crore concealed in his stomach, was arrested by the Customs on Thursday.

Merseyside Police confirmed the charge

City joiner with drug trafficking record is jailed for six years and four months at High Court in Glasgow.

The biggest seizure for the Bengaluru unit of DRI, this is the second such arrest this week — on Aug 3, an African national was arrested for smuggling ₹11 crore worth of cocaine

GUWAHATI: A huge consignment of heroin marked as “100% pure” in Chinese, morphine, crystal meth and syabu worth about Rs 15 crore was seized from a Sikkim registered vehicle in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday morning. The consignment was headed for Siliguri in West Bengal, police said.