{"id":505208,"date":"2026-03-31T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505208\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:09:13","slug":"scottish-crime-boss-steven-lyons-pictured-cuffed-with-cable-ties-in-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505208\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish crime boss Steven Lyons pictured cuffed with cable ties in Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scottish crime boss Steven Lyons has been pictured cuffed with cable ties and flanked by officers at a police headquarters in Bali.<\/p>\n

The high-profile gangland figure was arrested at the city\u2019s I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport by immigration officers on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ngurah Rai Immigration Office said the 45-year-old had arrived in Bali on a flight from Singapore.<\/p>\n

He was flagged as the subject of an Interpol Red Notice and taken into custody during immigration checks.<\/p>\n

\"StevenGetty ImagesSteven Lyons with police officers in Bali Getty Images<\/p>\n

On Monday, it emerged that his partner, Amanda Lyons, was arrested in Dubai.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, crime boss Lyons was pictured in an orange jumpsuit and cable ties being escorted by officers at the Bali police headquarters in Denpasar.<\/p>\n

His arrest comes as nine men have appeared in court following a Police Scotland international gang-busting operation on Friday, targeting alleged members of the Lyons crime group.<\/p>\n

Officers executed warrants at addresses in Glasgow, Bellshill, Cumbernauld, Gartcosh, Caldercruix, Coatbridge and East Whitburn as part of a pre-planned day of action targeting serious and organised crime.<\/p>\n

The operation, which is not linked to the ongoing criminal feud in Scotland, was coordinated with the Spanish Guardia Civil, who raided addresses in Malaga and Barcelona.<\/p>\n

\"StevenGetty ImagesSteven Lyons is in custody in Bali Getty Images<\/p>\n

The gang is suspected of running a prolific criminal network involved in the transport of large quantities of drugs, including hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, into Scotland.<\/p>\n

Steven Lyons is a high-ranking member of the group, which has been locked in a war with the Daniels gang for more than two decades.<\/p>\n

\"StevenNgurah Rai Immigration OfficeSteven Lyons was arrested in Bali Ngurah Rai Immigration OfficeArrest in Dubai<\/p>\n

Steven Lyons is believed to have been arrested in Dubai last September, along with Ross McGill, Stephen Jamieson and Steven Larwood.<\/p>\n

They were reportedly released in October and ordered to leave the Gulf state immediately.<\/p>\n

Jamieson, 42, was extradited from Dubai in December and later appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court charged with being involved in serious organised crime and being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs.<\/p>\n

Spain shooting<\/p>\n

Eddie Lyons Junior and Ross Monaghan were shot and killed at an Irish bar in Spain in July last year.<\/p>\n

Both men had known connections to gangland crime in Scotland and were shot by a masked gunman who fled the scene.<\/p>\n

The pair had been involved in a rivalry with the Daniel organised crime group for more than two decades.<\/p>\n

Eddie Lyons Junior survived an attempt on his life in 2006 when he was ambushed by Kevin \u201cGerbil\u201d Carroll in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire.<\/p>\n

\"EddieSTV NewsEddie Lyons Junior and Ross Monaghan STV News<\/p>\n

That attack followed another incident widely regarded as having taken the Lyons vs Daniels gang feud to a new level.<\/p>\n

In November 2006, Carroll allegedly used a 4\u00d74 and a rope to topple the headstone of Eddie Jr\u2019s brother Garry, who died of leukaemia in 1991 aged eight.<\/p>\n

Eddie Jr\u2019s cousin, Michael, was shot dead in 2007 after two hitmen from the Daniels opened fire at Applerow Motors, off Balmore Road in the Lambhill area of the city.<\/p>\n

The hitmen were enforcers for the Daniel crime clan, believed to have been led by the late Jamie Daniel.<\/p>\n

Monaghan was arrested as a suspect in the 2010 shooting of Carroll, who was gunned down in a brutal gangland assassination in the car park of Asda Robroyston.<\/p>\n

But he was acquitted after the judge at his 2012 trial ruled there was insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n

Monaghan was also cleared of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by disposing of the two guns used in the shooting and torching the getaway car.<\/p>\n

Monaghan fled to Spain in 2017 after he was shot outside a primary school in the Penilee area of Glasgow.<\/p>\n

He had just dropped his daughter off at St George\u2019s Primary School.<\/p>\n

Later that year, Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr were both cleared of being involved in a brutal street attack on three men outside the Campsie bar in Bishopbriggs.<\/p>\n

The case collapsed after prosecutors withdrew the charges against them following two days of evidence.<\/p>\n

Gang war<\/p>\n

Police Scotland\u2019s Operation Portaledge was launched to crack down on serious organised crime after a gang feud spanning the central belt ignited in March 2025.<\/p>\n

The Scots allegedly arrested in Dubai \u2013 Steven Lyons, Ross McGill, Stephen Jamieson and Steven Larwood \u2013 are believed to be involved in the feud.<\/p>\n

Jailed cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson has also been linked to the case, with a group named TMJ issuing a bounty, offering a reward for a violent attack on the Scottish drug lord.<\/p>\n

The special task force has arrested a total of 63 people in connection with the organised crime war.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Marshall O\u2019Hara, 21, Fraser Stewart, 22, and Aiden McLaughlin, 21, admitted to firebombing houses and a carpet firm linked to the Daniel crime family.<\/p>\n

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Arran Reid, 27, was jailed for eight years and four months in December after being caught as part of the police operation.<\/p>\n

He admitted attacking David McMillan with a machete outside of his home on May 22 and firing a revolver recklessly at a window of a house in Inch, Edinburgh, on June 12.<\/p>\n

Liam McDermid, 25, was given six years and nine months in November for using a metal detector to try to find a Glock pistol which had been hidden close to a primary school in Edinburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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