Max Stephens

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Max Stephens

A group of smugglers tried to disguise nearly 100kg of cocaine with foie gras and duck breasts. The four gangsters had installed a false floor in a transit van, which they stashed £9 million worth of cocaine underneath. On top of it, they piled boxes and boxes filled with food items as a cover for the elaborate operation. The van was stopped by Border Force officers as it arrived into Newhaven, East Sussex, from the fishing port of Dieppe, northern France, in November 2019.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

Jean-Pierre Labelle, 48, and Tanvir Hussain, 46, who are the owners of the van, were arrested along with the brothers. The van driver was found to be innocent. Michael Keating had used an encrypted messaging app called EncroChat under the online moniker "Bestrocket" to plan his drug runs, the NCA said. His brother also had an EncroChat phone and used the app to plan an 80kg importation of ketamine.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

Alexei Owsjanikow, 47, Ovsiannikov's brother, was spared jail after being convicted of two counts of circumventing sanctions by paying school fees of £41,027 for Ovsiannikov's children. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for 15 months, and was previously cleared of a further three counts of breaching sanctions including buying a Mercedes-Benz worth £54,500 and arranging car insurance for Ovsiannikov.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Max Stephens

Credit: KTLA 5 NewsThe wife of a member of the rock band Weezer has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after she allegedly pointed a handgun at officers in her front garden. Police were chasing a man through the suburbs of Los Angeles after a hit-and-run incident when they found Jillian Lauren, the wife of bass player Scott Shriner, holding a handgun in her front garden next door.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

Jean-Claude Van Damme allegedly had sex with five women trafficked from Romania at a television series launch party in Cannes, according to legal documents obtained by The Telegraph. The Belgian martial artist and Hollywood actor is facing a potential criminal investigation from Romanian authorities after a complaint was filed to police on April 2. Excerpts of a deposition contained in the complaint claim the women were "given" to Van Damme, 64, at the event in south-east France in 2015.