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image captionLeon Cullen was extradited from Dubai in February
A gangland boss who supplied drugs and guns to criminal gangs has been jailed following his recapture in Dubai after two years on the run.
Leon Cullen, 33, of no fixed address, was sentenced to 22 and a half years at Liverpool Crown Court.
Alongside his twin brother he used violence to intimidate and control while running a drugs and money laundering business, police said.
Cullen used a fake passport to flee in 2018 but was arrested in January 2020.
He admitted conspiracy to supply firearms, conspiracy to possess ammunition and conspiracy to supply cocaine at an earlier hearing.
The first downfall Leon Cullen and his twin brother Anthony were born in the summer of 1987. Growing up in the Longford area of the town, Anthony was the more level-headed and popular of the two while Leon could prove to be a volatile character on occasion. It was not unknown for the pair to fall out from time to time, as brothers do. By the early 2010s, Leon and Anthony were beginning to gain notoriety in the criminal underworld. Leon soon rose to become the ‘mastermind’ of an 18-man drugs cartel which shipped at least 5kg of cocaine worth around £300,000 across the north west during a six-month period from August 2010 onwards, as well as supplying other gangs in Warrington.
Underworld crime bosses decade of drug misery now over with crime empire in tatters
The evil trade of notorious brothers Alan and John Tobin, Anthony and Leon Cullen, the two Jamies and jail cell dealer Lee Stoba is now exposed
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Alan Tobin, 52, of Regency Park, Widnes, and John Tobin, 40, formerly of Manor Road, Prescot
An underworld crime network propped up by threats, guns and huge amounts of drugs being ferried around the UK now lies in tatters after the secret lives of major gangland bosses were systematically exposed.
High-level drug dealing, originating from Warrington and Widnes, had its tentacles draped into England, Scotland and Wales with a cabal of criminals making huge profits as their products wreaked misery for addicts in communities across Britain for almost a decade.
Cocaine brothers moaned we wud b millionaires by now
EncroChat messages show the Tobins blamed nuggets for costing them a drug empire with mystery Colombian connections
08:55, 24 APR 2021
The Tobin brothers Alan Tobin, 52, (left) and John Tobin, 40, (right)
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Two brothers who ran a drug empire moaned they would have been millionaires if it wasn t for nuggets who let them down.