A ‘most wanted’ British man who imported large amounts of cocaine has been arrested in Spain.<\/p>\n
Simon Dutton, 49, was wanted by Greater Manchester Police over cocaine importation, money laundering, false passport offences, and breaching a Serious Crime Prevention Order.<\/p>\n
He was arrested in La Nucia, near Benidorm, following a collaboration between the Civil Guard and the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).<\/p>\n
It followed an international “Most Wanted” campaign, with three others arrested for drug trafficking and document forgery.<\/p>\n
Read more: Dutton was one of 12 fugitives featured in the NCA’s most wanted fugitive campaign, launched on Thursday.<\/p>\n An investigation had been launched in November last year following a tip-off from the manager of a parcel delivery service in Benidorm, where a suitcase containing 16kg of drugs were found, destined for the UK.<\/p>\n But as the investigation progressed it was found one of the suspects was among fugitives wanted by British authorities for drug trafficking offences.<\/p>\n An international arrest warrant had been issued at the end of last year.<\/p>\n Authorities in Spain said Dutton would now face the National Court for proceedings relating to his international extradition request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ‘most wanted’ British man who imported large amounts of cocaine has been arrested in Spain. Simon Dutton,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12476,991,12475,12477,12347,12474,17],"class_list":["post-23560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-british-authorities","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-greater-manchester-police","tag-international-arrest-warrant","tag-national-crime-agency","tag-simon-dutton","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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