{"id":584993,"date":"2026-05-15T06:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584993\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:26:12","slug":"most-wanted-cocaine-smuggling-suspect-held-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584993\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Most wanted&#8217; cocaine smuggling suspect held in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of Britain&#8217;s most wanted fugitives suspected of importing large amounts of cocaine into the UK has been arrested in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon Dutton, 49, originally from Bolton, Greater Manchester, was held in La Nucia, near Benidorm, the National Crime Agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dutton had been wanted by Greater Manchester Police in connection with organising large importations of cocaine and money laundering, with one interception being valued at \u00a31.5 million, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also wanted over alleged false passport offences and breaching a Serious Crime Prevention Order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Britain&#8217;s most wanted fugitives suspected of importing large amounts of cocaine into the UK has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-584993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}