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The North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU) has welcomed the sentencing of Thomas Lowe, 33, of Garland Road, Wythenshawe, who appeared at Manchester Crown Court, Crown Square today (Friday 14 November) after pleading guilty to serious child grooming offences.
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A former OCG member has now been ordered to pay back millions of pounds under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Yesterday (Wednesday 5 November) a Birmingham man was sentenced for a series of offences involving the use of drones to smuggle drugs and prohibited items into prisons across the country, following a joint investigation by the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU) and Greater Manchester Police (GMP).
A mental health counsellor working within HMP Lancaster Farms has been sentenced today (Friday 31 October) at Bolton Crown Court following an investigation led by the North West Regional Prison Anti-Corruption Unit.
Dan Price, Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), has invited Warrington businesses, charities and public sector organisations to come along to a Cyber Awareness Breakfast event on Friday, November 14.
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Yesterday (Monday 27 October), Officers from the NWROCU’s Proactive Economic Crime Team, supported by Trading Standards and detection dogs, carried out a targeted operation at a premises on Chester Street, Wrexham, as part of Operation Machinize.
Last week (Friday 24 October) at Liverpool Crown Court, Graham Patterson, 37, from Liverpool, was jailed for 16 years following a joint investigation by the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit and the Metropolitan Police into online child sexual exploitation. He will also serve an additional five years on licence.
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Yesterday (Tuesday 21st October), two men were jailed at Liverpool Crown Court for conspiring to convey prohibited items into prisons using drones.
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Today (Wednesday 15 October) at Manchester Crown Court, a man from Manchester has been sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for a series of drugs offences following an investigation by the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit.
Officers from the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU), working in partnership with the Cumbria Fire & Rescue Service and Trading Standards, carried out visits to two premises in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria as part of Operation Machinize - an ongoing National Crime Agency-coordinated operation to tackle money laundering and criminal use of cash-intensive high street businesses.