The Iceman: The Rise and Fall of a Crime Lord

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And smuggler Robert McDowall, who was arrested with Gallagher, said: "J (Stevenson) is the man with the overall power but Frank's his lieutenant - his right-hand man. He said they were like brothers." After being kept under surveillance, he was arrested by a Dutch tactical unit in the southern municipality of Bergen op Zoom alongside another man who was also wanted by Police Scotland.

JAMIE STEVENSON had been a lieutenant in the crime clan led by best friend Tony McGovern. But, by June 2000, Tony has sided with his brothers against him. Their murderous plot to end the feud fails and, weeks later, Stevenson meets fire with fire.

'DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL'

Now the NCA works closely with their counterparts in Spain and last year 25 wanted British fugitives were returned from Spain. Yet the large expat community in Spain, coupled with a sizeable UK criminal fraternity that has developed since the 1980s, means it is still the number one destination for those evading British law. He later told detectives: "From what I can gather, Frank and J were more or less on a par with each other. One thing I do know is that most of the drugs in Glasgow and the Central Belt are controlled by this Jamie. One of the men in the car that night was allegedly Terry Monaghan, an elder statesman of Glasgow gangland and a man who had the influence to broker a truce between the McGoverns and their nemesis.

Loyalties change over time and we urge anyone with information about these men to help us find them." Stevenson featured at the top of the NCA’s 12 most wanted fugitives last week. Read More Related Articles McDowall: " He said it would be very, very good money in it for me. They said it would probably be ecstasy, cannabis." During the 1990s the McGovernment had mushroomed spectacularly from their Glasgow heartland to build a huge drugs empire from their humble beginnings of extortion, shoplifting and petty violence. The family flourished despite Paul serving a murder sentence and Tommy, although he walked free from a murder trial, being jailed for four years for drugs and firearms offences. Another brother Jamie was shot in the face while drinking in a local pub, leaving him badly scarred. It is the latest effort by prosecutors to target the family fortune of Jamie “The Iceman” Stevenson.Steve Rodhouse, the NCA's director general of operations, said Spain is "not a safe haven" for the fugitives. The National Crime Agency also intends to quiz him over 28 million Etizolam 'street valium' tablets which were seized at a pill factory in England earlier that year in June 2020. James 'iceman' Stevenson, otherwise known as Jamie, is wanted over the seizure of approximately one tonne of cocaine found in an unaccompanied freight arriving at the Port of Dover in September 2020, and the production and supply of approximately 28 million etizolam "street valium" tablets that were seized following a raid on a suspected pill factory in Kent in June 2020. Crime: Supply of MDMA, methylphenidate (a pharmaceutical drug) and diazepam. Mayle fled after being charged. He allegedly ran a drug line in South London and Surrey called the Flavour Quest. He worked with a dark web drug dealer buying and selling drugs between each other for onward sales through their respective drug networks. They sold LSD and various pharmaceutical medication.