Author: Arturo Santos

A dad who smuggled £22 million worth of heroin into the UK from Pakistan hidden inside boxes of plastic shopping bags has been jailed for 20 years. Dopey Arfan Mirza, 42, was caught after he recorded footage of himself testing the purity of the class-A drugs in his own kitchen as part of a ‘publicity video’. A court heard the footage acted as an advert for potential street dealers after he imported 220 kilos of heroin into the country from Pakistan. The dad-of-four headed up the the massive drug smuggling operation which saw consignments disguised as shopping bags and sports…

A luxury-loving woman secretly funded a lavish lifestyle of designer handbags, foreign holidays, buying a second house and living without touching any of her job salary by selling heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis. Engineer and University of Hull graduate Danielle Stafford had a long-running “additional cash income stream” but she was caught only by pure chance when police spotted her speeding and her drugs empire began “unravelling before her very eyes”. A phone constantly rang with 30 calls or pinged with up to 20 drug messages after she was arrested and police later found £26,917 cash stashed around her home…