{"id":750187,"date":"2026-08-26T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750187\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:56:09","slug":"major-gangland-figure-steven-daniel-arrested-in-organised-crime-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750187\/","title":{"rendered":"Major gangland figure Steven Daniel arrested in organised crime raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Scotland News joined the operation shortly before sunrise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dozens of officers involved were briefed at a nearby police station before joining a convoy to Daniel&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two uniformed officers initially approached the property and spoke to him through a first-floor window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An officer with a police dog then moved in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moments later Daniel left the property through the front door and was taken into the back of a police van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second man, Steven Gordon, 39 was also arrested in Garthamlock, less than four miles away, in a simultaneous operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was taken into custody in connection with serious and organised crime, firearms and drugs offences and conspiracy to murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Scotland News joined the operation shortly before sunrise. Dozens of officers involved were briefed at a nearby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750187","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\/750187","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=750187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}