Curtis Warren: Last News

Former drug dealer Curtis Warren has been arrested months after being released from jail. Warren was detained and arrested on suspicion of breaching his Serious Crime Prevention Order.

A notorious drugs baron with links to Manchester is due out in November - and will emerge to a very different underworld. Curtis Warren, 59, was jailed for 13 years in 2009 over a plot to smuggle £1million of cannabis into Jersey and is now due for automatic release.

READ MORE: Estate full of violence and chaos has locals saying it's 'worst place on Earth'It is unclear if Warren, known as Cocky, will be able to access his drug empire fortune on his release, as the crime kingpin will be under close watch by authorities both in the UK and abroad, reports Liverpool Echo.In 2013, the criminal mastermind's elaborate money laundering machine was laid out by prosecutors at the Jersey's Royal Court.It covered everything from Swiss bank accounts and a Turkish property scheme, to a gold mining venture in Guyana that were suspected to be part of his network, as authorities and lawmakers tried to piece together Warren's epic profits.He was fighting the authorities in Jersey over an attempt to confiscate his profits following his conviction in 2009 for attempting to smuggle cannabis worth £1million onto the island.The scheme was rumbled in July 2007, only five weeks after his release from a Dutch prison where he had been serving time since 1996 over a £125m drugs trafficking plot.The court heard the drug baron could source cocaine from South America, heroin from Turkey and Iran, and cannabis from Morocco, and distribute the contraband across the globe to far-flung places including Moscow, Brazil, Swaziland and Australia.The court was also told that Warren, 59, boasted while in a Dutch prison of how he laundered £15m in cash each week.In 1996, Dutch financial investigators estimated Warren made a drugs profit of £12m in a three-month period.While Warren awaited trial in Jersey, the drug lord reportedly made 35,000 calls from behind bars to contacts across the world.

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A notorious drugs baron with links to Manchester will be freed from prison next year.

drug trafficking kingpin of a £200m empire is being readied for his release from prison.'Cocky' Curtis Warren has spent the last 14 years behind bars where he was caught last year romping a female prison guard. Warren, who at one point had an estimated fortune of £300m, was jailed for 13 years in 2009 over a plot to smuggle £1m of cannabis into Jersey, the Mirror reports.

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