CRIMINALS have been stripped of more than £1m this year as police wage a war on their illegal profits. One Cumbria s most senior detectives has spoken of stunning recent successes as police target the criminal cash circulating in the county - much of it linked to drugs. Following a Freedom of Information question from the News & Star, Cumbria Constabulary has spelled out its rapidly improving record for clawing back illicit cash from criminals. The figures show an escalation in the force s court-approved cash seizures for the three years up to January this year. In 2018, police seized £12,265 from criminals. The following year, the county s figure rose to £28,135.
A MEMBER of a drugs gang which flooded Barrow with heroin and crack has been ordered to sell his diamond encrusted watch to pay for his crimes. PrinceWill Enaruba, 26, was part of a network of dealers which trafficked drugs from the South East to Barrow, via a headquarters in Coventry. When officers raided the base in Signals Drive, where Enaruba lived with his partner Shanice Knight, they found more than £1,500 cash and a Cartier Santos watch, estimated to be worth upwards of £11,000 when bought new. Enaruba claimed he had borrowed the watch from a family friend to wear to a wedding 11 months earlier.
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Police said they brought misery to our community. Now the last of 34 people to be brought to justice as part of the large-scale Operation Horizon has been jailed. PrinceWill Enaruba, 26, was jailed for more than nine years at Preston Crown Court after he admitted his part in a conspiracy to flood Barrow with class A drugs. Operation Horizon smashed a number of county lines rings that brought despair to the streets of south Cumbria. It saw officers launch more than 20 raids on properties in Barrow linked to suspects in a dramatic dawn crackdown in early 2019. As well as the convictions, it dismantled a set-up that was trafficking drugs to the county and selling to local users in an area blighted by deaths linked to substance abuse.