Murders, robberies, arms trafficking and drug trafficking. These are the crimes for which the United Kingdom is looking for twelve criminals who are suspected of being hidden in Spain, the majority on the Costa del Sol. The British authorities together with the Spanish request the collaboration of citizens to stop them as soon as possible.
A help that guarantees anonymity and does not entail any danger for the complainant, As reiterated this Wednesday by those responsible for the Ministry of the Interior, the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom and the NGO Crimestoppers in the presentation of a new edition of the ‘Most Wanted’ campaign, a continuation of the called capture operations.
In fact, the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, underlined the excellent collaboration between the British police and the Spanish security forces which has made it possible to arrest 86 escapees from British justice since 2006.
Of them, 25 were arrested last year in Spain, revealed the Director General of Operations of the British National Crime Agency (NCA), Steve Rodhouse, who has released a message: “We appeal to Spanish and British society to call if they know where these fugitives are. (…) Any detail can be valuable”.
The released list is made up of twelve men who are suspected of having some link in Spain and even of some there are clues that they can be found or have been in specific places such as Marbella or other places on the Costa del Sol.
For Rodhouse that this area may be chosen by many British criminals It is due, among other reasons, to the concentration of compatriots who reside or spend the summer here, so that the criminal finds himself comfortable and safer mixed with other citizens of his country.
The ‘Most Wanted’ campaign encourages society -18 million Britons travel to Spain every year- to provide any information related to the whereabouts of any of them to call the NGO CrimeStoppers anonymously and free of charge at 900 926 111.
Clues can also be offered online at crimestoppers-uk.org/fugitives, where profiles of fugitives have also been posted.
To help identify the twelve criminals, the campaign spreads the portrait, the profile and description of the fugitives, which are the following:
Nana Opong, 41 years old
He is wanted by Essex Police for the June 2020 murder of a 50-year-old man, whom he allegedly riddled with eight shots at a party. The victim allegedly belonged to a rival gang. The fugitive is black, has two scars over his right eye and other marks on his left hand and navel. Agents believe he has connections in Marbella.
Benjamin McCann, 32 years old
Wanted for his alleged involvement in the supply of multiple kilos of cocaine in 2020, for which he and his accomplices used encrypted phones. He is 1.78, has asthma, blue eyes, is left-handed and has gray hair.
Jack Mayle, 30 years old
Fled the town of Surrey after being accused of distributing ecstasy and LSD and dealing diazepam on the dark web, where he and another dealer bought and sold drugs and then resold them.
Mayle is heavily tattooed. He wears a diamond under his left eye and another on the outside of his left forearm that says ‘Croydon’, while his back is fully covered, his neck with figures of warriors and nuns, and both hands and fingers with phrases and numbers.
Callum Halpin, 27 years old
He is wanted in connection with the 2018 murder of a man. He is 1.88 meters tall, has a fair complexion and according to British agents he may have a lazy eye.
Asim Naveed and Calvin Parris, 29 and 32 years old
Police in South Wales have been after them for two years for the distribution of large quantities of cocaine in Cardiff and Wales, some 46 kilos worth almost eight million pounds.
Naveed is Asian and has a surgical scar on his left wrist. Parris, who would have bought part of a shipment of cocaine from him, has gold upper teeth.
John Hames-Jones, 31 years old
British agents believe he may be in Ibiza. He is wanted for stabbing two people in 2018, causing serious injuries. Jones is believed to have fled the UK immediately to Madrid, spending the night in a hotel. The next morning he continued his flight.
Callum Michael Allan, 23 years old
He is wanted by Northumbria Police for 12 offences, including heroin and cocaine trafficking, possession of cannabis, assault on an emergency worker, riot and reckless driving.
He was arrested in 2019, but after being granted bail, he fled. It has connections in Alicante and Marbella.
Dean Garforth, 29 years old
Member of an organized criminal group dedicated to drug trafficking and involved in the trade of firearms and ammunition.
Joshua Dillon Hendri, 30 years old
Wanted for belonging to a criminal gang that trafficked heroin and crack from Liverpool to Grimsby for later distribution. He is sentenced to ten years in prison.
Mark Francis Roberts, 30 years old
He is charged with grievous bodily injury and attempted robbery of a man to take a watch valued at £60,000 in 2016. The victim heard one of the assailants say he had cut himself during the assault, Roberts’ blood being later identified at the scene of the crime.
James Stevenson, 56 years old
Scotsman, with graying hair and a scar on his face, the police are on his trail for a drug trafficking crime as he is responsible for importing cocaine into Glasgow hidden in shipments of fruit. It is suspected that he has some relationship with Barcelona and Alicante.
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