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The North East Regional Organised Crime Unit (NEROCU) joined forces with the Department for Work and Pensions after intelligence indicated individuals were claiming State Pension and Personal Independence Payments for someone who had died two years ago.
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This multi-agency effort focused on identifying and disrupting businesses complicit in concealing illicit funds, reinforcing the commitment to tackling organised crime across the region.
A man from Rochdale who was jailed for online child sex offences has now been deported to Pakistan.
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Drug dealer who conspired to supply quarter-of-a-million work of Class A drugs across the North East has been sentenced to time behind bars.
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Today (Tuesday 27 May) two men from North Wales and Liverpool have been jailed as part of a NWROCU investigation into Class A drug supply.
A man from Northamptonshire has been jailed last week (Friday 23 May) after admitting to a series of online child sex offences.
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Detectives from the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU) have charged a man from Merseyside for trying to convey prohibited items into prisons via a drone.
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Last night (Tuesday 20 May) a series of coordinated warrants took place in Merseyside and Holland as part of a joint investigation into an international drug trafficking network.
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Four burglars have been jailed for a total of almost 32 years for their roles in a series of high-value burglaries across the North East.
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Today, (Friday 16 May), at Preston Crown Court, a corrupt prison governor at HMP Kirkham, who formed a relationship with a prisoner, has been jailed.