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UKs' Pablo Escobar Curtis Warren Arrested at Home of Female Prison Warden
Notorious Druglord Curtis '****y' Warren Who Built £300million Fortune Set to be Freed
Curtis '****y' Warren is now 58 and has spent almost all of the past 25 years in jail. He allegedly has £198million squirrelled away but will face restrictions under a serious crime prevention order
Daily Mirror 9 NOV 2021.
Drugs baron Curtis Warren is being prepared for release after 14 years in jail.
Warren leaves The Royal Court in St Hellier, Jersey, in 2009
Warren, 58, will face restrictions over any assets worth over £1,000, despite allegedly having £198million squirrelled away.
Under a serious crime prevention order, he will also face curbs on foreign travel as well as using phones, vehicles and the internet.
Alison Abbott, at the National Crime Agency, said: “Many career criminals regard prison as an interruption which rarely marks the end of their involvement in organised crime.
“Through our Lifetime Management programme we use [restrictions] as an extra layer of prevention.
“They ensure we firmly have these individuals on our radar, especially after prison, and anything that suggests that they’re slipping into old ways can be detected early on.”
Sources said Warren is due to be automatically released next year. He will not have to go before the Parole Board because he is not serving a life sentence.
Warren, who at one point had an estimated fortune of £300million, was jailed for 13 years in 2009 over a plot to smuggle £1m of cannabis into Jersey.
He was pictured alongside his alleged partner in crime and childhood pal, John Welsh, who was also then jailed but has since been released.
Warren was given a further 10 years, of which he must serve half, after failing to pay a £198m confiscation order.
Warren was held after *undercover police arrested him in 2007 days after he had been released from prison for a previous offence.
He has spent almost all of the past 25 years in jail.
Warren is on a list published by the NCA this year of individuals involved in organised crime who have been issued with serious crime prevention orders.
In his case they include restrictions for five years after his release on his ability to use cars and property, borrow money, make transfers, hold trusts or shares and use foreign or virtual currency.
Cannabis seized during a States of Jersey Police investigation that brought down a drugs plot controlled from Merseyside
If he breaks the conditions Warren can be sent back to prison.
He is understood to be in HMP Long Lartin, a category A jail in Worcestershire and is expected to be moved to a lower category prison in the months before his release date next November.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, ‘****y’ Warren, as he became known, graduated from running nightclub doors, to armed robbery and then international drug trafficking.
In 1993, following the collapse of a drugs trial at Newcastle crown court, he was reported to have approached customs officers to tell them: “I’m off to spend my £87million from the first shipment and you can’t f****** touch me.”
Warren is understood to be in HMP Long Lartin, a category A jail in Worcestershire
Warren was convicted of trying to mastermind a £125million drugs shipment from the Netherlands into the UK and sentenced to 12 years in 1996.
In the Nieuw Vosseveld maximum security jail, Turkish prisoner Cemal Guclu attacked Warren.
He kicked his attacker, a convicted killer, in the head, killing him.
Warren claimed to have acted in self-defence, and got a further four years’ jail.
Durham Constabulary prison officer Stephanie Smithwhite who has been jailed for two years at Durham Crown Court after she had a behind bars sexual relationship with notorious gangster Curtis "****y" Warren and got a tattoo of his name
Prison officer Stephanie Smithwhite had a behind bars sexual relationship with Warren ( Image:PA)
He was released in the summer of 2007 and sent back to Liverpool. Within weeks, he flew to Jersey, where he was jailed again.
As Sir Richard Tucker handed him a 13-year sentence, Warren closed the book he had been reading for much of the proceedings and walked out with prison guards behind him.
In 2013, prosecutors claimed Warren was in control of a £198million drugs’ empire.
Last year Prison officer Stephanie Smithwhite was jailed for two years after admitting misconduct in a public office over a sexual relationship with Warren at Frankland jail in Co Durham.
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