Michael Derrane supplied firearms and drugs to organised crime groups across the UK.
He was caught as part of Operation Venetic, a UK law enforcement crackdown on EncroChat.
Derrane was arrested in his van in the Tingley area of Leeds on 22 April 2020 where officers seized a gun that had been converted to fire automatically, ammunition, class B drugs and £6,000 cash. Derrane, of St Mary's Park, was jailed for 19 years and two months after he had admitted conspiracy to transfer prohibited weapons and conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs, namely heroin, cocaine and cannabis.Police found messages Derrane had exchanged with Alsi Vata, 26, from south east London, who was attempting to source a gun.
In one reply to a request for a firearm in April 2020, Derrane wrote: "They in Spain until we start sending again I can't get em you got enough kill someone only need one in right place." Vata, of Deptford Church Street, admitted conspiracy to transfer prohibited weapons, possession of a prohibited weapon and conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs namely cocaine and cannabis.Adrian Barnard of the NCA said Derrane was "clearly a dangerous person" who had "status" among major crime groups "on a national scale".
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