0:00:02 > 0:00:03Come on!
0:00:03 > 0:00:05- On the run...- Get back here!
0:00:05 > 0:00:06..and over here.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Hands out now, hands out.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11When foreign criminals flee their home countries,
0:00:11 > 0:00:13many hide out in the UK.
0:00:13 > 0:00:14Give me your hands.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17But if they think they're safe, they're wrong.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19They know they're wanted.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door.
0:00:21 > 0:00:26But the traffic in fugitives isn't all one way.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Across Europe there are hundreds of British criminals
0:00:29 > 0:00:32also trying to escape justice.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34From the sun-drenched costas
0:00:34 > 0:00:37to the busy streets of the Dutch capital.
0:00:37 > 0:00:38GLASS SMASHES
0:00:38 > 0:00:41This is how the police take down the fugitives...
0:00:41 > 0:00:44You're under arrest under the Extradition Act.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45Police officer!
0:00:45 > 0:00:48..both at home and abroad.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Coming up on today's programme:
0:00:58 > 0:00:59Wanted in America -
0:00:59 > 0:01:04a double dawn raid on two brothers accused of drug-dealing.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Just tell me your name, please.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08- I'm not going to give you my name. - You're not. OK.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11And unlucky in Amsterdam -
0:01:11 > 0:01:14the Liverpool drug baron who ended up behind bars
0:01:14 > 0:01:19after an unexpected appearance on this programme.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21My fugitive walked past the camera.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22Extraordinary set of circumstances,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and I'd like to know the odds on that one.
0:01:30 > 0:01:36West Yorkshire Police have one of the busiest extradition units in the UK.
0:01:36 > 0:01:40In the last year alone, they have brought in more than 100 fugitives
0:01:40 > 0:01:43wanted for offences committed in other European countries.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47This kind of police work takes persistence,
0:01:47 > 0:01:53and PC Dave Lockwood and his partner PC Tom Allen are experts.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Today, they're out looking for a man they have been hunting
0:01:57 > 0:01:58for more than two years.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04But now Dave has new information which he hopes will crack the case.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06This intelligence is only two months old.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08It's one I worked on in 2014
0:02:08 > 0:02:10where I was looking for him,
0:02:10 > 0:02:15and he had connections to Leeds and Bradford with a number of addresses.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17We didn't manage to locate him,
0:02:17 > 0:02:21and it's now come back to us with a new address in Wakefield.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26The man they're after is called Wieslaw Lewicz.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Poland has issued no less than five
0:02:28 > 0:02:31separate warrants for his arrest.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Dave explains what the man is accused of.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36He's either run a company,
0:02:36 > 0:02:39or agreed to import or export cars for people,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41he's taken a significant deposit
0:02:41 > 0:02:43and then not followed up or done anything.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47And he's done that repetitively, with different people,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50gaining quite a bit of money in the process.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52So we're going to try and locate him,
0:02:52 > 0:02:54execute these five warrants and take him into custody.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01The new intelligence has identified this house
0:03:01 > 0:03:03as the home of the fugitive.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07But it's not him who answers the door.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10- Hello.- I hear you. - OK. Do you speak good English?
0:03:10 > 0:03:13- Yes, of course, I speak.- Are we OK to come in and speak with you?
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- Yes.- Cheers, thank you.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Are you well? We were thinking that there was another man living here,
0:03:18 > 0:03:22and we've come to speak to another man, called...
0:03:22 > 0:03:23Wieslaw.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28No... He doesn't live here.
0:03:28 > 0:03:34- Right.- I allowed him to take correspondence here.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38'The man Dave's after has been using this house in Wakefield
0:03:38 > 0:03:39'as a postal address.'
0:03:39 > 0:03:40..the number, would you?
0:03:40 > 0:03:42'His friend reluctantly reveals
0:03:42 > 0:03:45'that Wieslaw Lewicz is still living in Bradford,
0:03:45 > 0:03:48'more than an hour's drive away.'
0:03:48 > 0:03:50'Now it's a race against time.'
0:03:53 > 0:03:55The chap that was helping us,
0:03:55 > 0:03:57his loyalty is to his friend.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59He couldn't at first give us his word
0:03:59 > 0:04:02that when I left the address he wouldn't ring him straightaway
0:04:02 > 0:04:04and tell him we were there looking for him.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07So, with an hour that's passed now,
0:04:07 > 0:04:10we don't know if he's been phoned and tipped off
0:04:10 > 0:04:15or he's going to give us a bit of time to get over and talk to him.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Dave knows the time he's spent on the road
0:04:17 > 0:04:21has given his target ample opportunity to go on the run.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25It might be this one,
0:04:25 > 0:04:28or it might be the white door to the left of me where I am.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31There's no answer.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36Dave doesn't know which of the flats the wanted man could be in.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39It's one of these, we're not sure which one.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41But there's somebody who does.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43The owner of the restaurant next door
0:04:43 > 0:04:48is the wanted man's landlord and he's got a spare key.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53- Just want to leave it to us for a minute? Is it flats?- Yeah.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Just come and show us which flat he's got.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Hello, it's the police, open the door, please!
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Are you happy to open this and let us have a check?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Because the window's open - we think he could be in there.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Do you just want to stand back for us?
0:05:10 > 0:05:11Cheers, thanks.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Tom, door's open, I'm going in.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Hello?
0:05:18 > 0:05:19Hello?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Tom's heard a bang up here when we've come through the door,
0:05:26 > 0:05:29and in this guy's flat he's got his mobile phone,
0:05:29 > 0:05:32he's got everything there as if he'd just walked out.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35So we're just being thorough and checking that...
0:05:37 > 0:05:39We're just checking that there's...
0:05:39 > 0:05:41nowhere he could have gone if he was home.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43His belongings are all there,
0:05:43 > 0:05:46but there's no sign of the man they're after -
0:05:46 > 0:05:49until Dave gets hold of another phone number for him.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Bear with me a minute.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54- Hello, is that Wieslaw?- Yes.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Wieslaw, hello, it's PC Lockwood from West Yorkshire Police.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01Hello? Hello, it's PC Lockwood from West Yorkshire Police.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03The phone call seems to come as a surprise.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04I need to speak with you,
0:06:04 > 0:06:09I'm just wondering if you'd be willing to meet me and, uh...
0:06:09 > 0:06:11So we could speak.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Well, where are you now?
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Oh, right, OK. Well, I'm in Bradford too,
0:06:16 > 0:06:20so do you want me to come to where you are now?
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Say it again.
0:06:21 > 0:06:26The fugitive doesn't seem too keen to meet up.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27He didn't want to meet with us,
0:06:27 > 0:06:30he says he's got something to do tonight.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33He seemed quite evasive on the phone,
0:06:33 > 0:06:36that anything I suggested he wasn't up for,
0:06:36 > 0:06:39and he said he'll hand himself in to a police station tomorrow.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43We can't work on that and just quit looking for him, thinking that -
0:06:43 > 0:06:45we've got to take him for his word.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46The landlord has just told me
0:06:46 > 0:06:49he's actually given notice a week and a half ago,
0:06:49 > 0:06:52given two weeks' notice that he's moving out.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54So that suggests, maybe this weekend,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56as soon as he moves out of this property, we've lost him.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59So we've got today and tomorrow, I guess,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02to try and locate him.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04'The clock is ticking,
0:07:04 > 0:07:09'and the suspected fraudster seems to have escaped justice yet again.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12'But after spending two years searching,
0:07:12 > 0:07:14'could an unexpected sighting
0:07:14 > 0:07:16'lead to a lucky break for Dave?'
0:07:23 > 0:07:26The Metropolitan Police's Extradition Unit
0:07:26 > 0:07:28deals with hundreds of cases each year.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32They work round the clock,
0:07:32 > 0:07:36tracking down foreign criminals hiding here in the UK.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39We're fairly successful at what we do.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40We arrested over 550 people last year
0:07:40 > 0:07:43for extradition requests.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45And we don't stop working until we can either show
0:07:45 > 0:07:48they've left the jurisdiction or never been here in the first place,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50or we've arrested them.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Quite simply, we don't give up.
0:07:53 > 0:07:58This morning, DS Pete Rance is on his way to Bedfordshire
0:07:58 > 0:08:03to track down one of two brothers wanted in America on drugs charges.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07They are wanted out in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Charged with the cultivation and supply
0:08:09 > 0:08:11of almost 4kg of illegal
0:08:11 > 0:08:13hallucinogenic mushrooms
0:08:13 > 0:08:16back in 2009,
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Charles Culver and his brother Dane
0:08:18 > 0:08:19fled the United States
0:08:19 > 0:08:21while awaiting trial.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25Charles and Dane Culver are wanted for serious offences,
0:08:25 > 0:08:26offences which in the States
0:08:26 > 0:08:29will attract really lengthy custodial sentences.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32They'd fled the States whilst they were on bail,
0:08:32 > 0:08:35and it was important that they weren't given an opportunity
0:08:35 > 0:08:37to do that again.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40But the two brothers lived 20 miles apart.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Obviously, when you've got a situation like this,
0:08:42 > 0:08:45where there's two living at separate addresses,
0:08:45 > 0:08:47you'll be careful how you handle that
0:08:47 > 0:08:50because if one gets to speak to the other one,
0:08:50 > 0:08:52or gets wind of the fact that one's been arrested,
0:08:52 > 0:08:55or the police have attended an address,
0:08:55 > 0:08:57your chances of actually locating
0:08:57 > 0:09:00and getting both of them are minimised.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Pete has sent a second team of detectives
0:09:02 > 0:09:05to the other address to try to catch both brothers
0:09:05 > 0:09:06at the same time.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Their investigation has led them to this street,
0:09:14 > 0:09:17but Pete wants to be sure they've got the right house.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22It's the brown door one, straight ahead.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29So, not the white one, but the one next to it.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Gosh, it's freezing out there.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35I just wanted to check the doors
0:09:35 > 0:09:40so I know which address we're dealing with, but the car,
0:09:40 > 0:09:45that silver Mazda, is the car registered to him at that address.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48The curtains are drawn on the bedroom upstairs,
0:09:48 > 0:09:53but we'll just wait and see how the fellows get on at the other address.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Although everything suggests this wanted man is at home,
0:09:57 > 0:10:02they need to be sure his brother is also in his house 20 miles away...
0:10:02 > 0:10:06- All right?- ..otherwise, one could tip off the other.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Yeah, we're outside it, yeah.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09We're in the road.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13I'm pretty confident our bloke's going to be there
0:10:13 > 0:10:14cos the car's there.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17I'll let you do yours because it might rattle the cage
0:10:17 > 0:10:19and when we get there, he might be up.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22All right, I'll speak to you in a minute.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27Pete waits to see what the other team, led by DS Jamie Derby, find,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29before making his move.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33But when they call him back, it's not what he wants to hear.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34How's it going?
0:10:36 > 0:10:37Have you got him?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Jamie had gone to Dane Culver's address
0:10:41 > 0:10:43and ascertained that whilst he lived there,
0:10:43 > 0:10:44he wasn't in, so I was confident
0:10:44 > 0:10:47that Charles Culver was in at the address at Leighton Buzzard.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50It left a bit of a dilemma, really, in the decision to be made.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52If he's there, Jay, and he's living there,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55we might be better off doing it in the morning.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56It was a big decision to make
0:10:56 > 0:11:00because you potentially run the risk of both of them being alerted
0:11:00 > 0:11:02and both going on the run.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04I might do that, then, I might call it off.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08For Pete, it's a case of double or nothing.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11He makes the decision to call off the operation.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14We're going to pull off and do both jobs really early tomorrow morning
0:11:14 > 0:11:20so we'll do them at a simultaneous arrest inquiry at both addresses,
0:11:20 > 0:11:23and, hopefully, get both of them tomorrow.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27So, it's a little bit of a holdback to, hopefully...
0:11:27 > 0:11:30get the pair of them,
0:11:30 > 0:11:33rather than start chasing around having to get one after the other.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38But when they return the next morning,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41can the detectives be sure they've got the right men?
0:11:41 > 0:11:44- Just tell me your name, please. - Am I obliged to do that?
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Well, you don't have to give me it.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48- I suspect I might know who you are. - Right.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57Liverpool - a city with a proud history of exports.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59But in 2015, police were trying to stop
0:11:59 > 0:12:03a very different kind of export.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07On a cold January morning,
0:12:07 > 0:12:11undercover cops staked out a fast-food restaurant.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Through a long lens, they snapped a group of men
0:12:18 > 0:12:22discussing a plan to traffic a huge haul of cannabis resin.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31Among the conspirators was this man, Terrence Earle.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Earle and younger brother Michael
0:12:34 > 0:12:38planned to smuggle the drugs in the back of a lorry later that day.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Both Michael and Terrence Earle are significant individuals
0:12:42 > 0:12:44within the organised-crime world.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47These individuals are resourceful,
0:12:47 > 0:12:49they're shrewd and quite deliberate
0:12:49 > 0:12:53in their approach to trafficking drugs.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Detectives were one step ahead of the brothers.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01They had intelligence the drugs were destined for South Wales.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08As the cannabis resin was loaded from a white van onto a lorry,
0:13:08 > 0:13:12officers in Liverpool were working with their south Wales colleagues
0:13:12 > 0:13:16to stop it, and catch the men behind the drugs ring.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18The decision was made between myself
0:13:18 > 0:13:21and the senior detective in charge in Merseyside
0:13:21 > 0:13:23that we would follow the vehicle
0:13:23 > 0:13:26and, when it comes into the Wales region,
0:13:26 > 0:13:29that we would pull it over in a safe environment.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33Unmarked police cars tailed the lorry as it travelled south.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36As it neared its destination,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39police decided it was time to act.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43It was along this stretch that I felt this was the most appropriate
0:13:43 > 0:13:46time to bring the vehicle to a stop.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50In the lorry, they found 179 kilos of cannabis resin
0:13:50 > 0:13:54with a street value of over half a million pounds.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Police now went after the men
0:13:59 > 0:14:03who had organised this drug-smuggling operation.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07But by now the Earle brothers had disappeared,
0:14:07 > 0:14:10their whereabouts a closely guarded secret
0:14:10 > 0:14:13amongst the organised crime gangs of Liverpool.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Both Michael and Terrence, obviously, being brothers,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18have trust, and that is a key ingredient
0:14:18 > 0:14:20to either their success or demise.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22We wanted to try and break that seal
0:14:22 > 0:14:24and try and locate these individuals.
0:14:26 > 0:14:32In August, 2015, after seven months of painstaking detective work,
0:14:32 > 0:14:36police believed they had found where the brothers were hiding out.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40They prepared to arrest them in a series of dawn raids.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Failure never came into my mind-set that morning.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47The meticulous planning that had taken place,
0:14:47 > 0:14:49the evidence we had gathered,
0:14:49 > 0:14:53there was only going to be one outcome for me and that was success.
0:14:53 > 0:14:58Unfortunately over the next 15 minutes or so
0:14:58 > 0:15:01my worst dreams came true.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04They had gone on the run.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Somehow, the Earles had slipped the net.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10Detective Inspector Bull turned to the public for help.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14'Number six tonight is this man, Terrence Andrew Earle.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17'Detectives in South Wales want to talk to him...'
0:15:17 > 0:15:20We had a number of calls, but one call in particular
0:15:20 > 0:15:22pointed us to the fact
0:15:22 > 0:15:26that the Earle brothers may well be overseas, in particular, in Holland.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28A year after they had gone on the run,
0:15:28 > 0:15:32the Earles were now international fugitives.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37But then, while we were filming for this programme,
0:15:37 > 0:15:39one of the brothers revealed his location
0:15:39 > 0:15:41in the most unexpected way.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43My fugitive walked past the camera.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Extraordinary set of circumstances,
0:15:46 > 0:15:48and I'd like to know the odds on that one.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54In West Yorkshire,
0:15:54 > 0:15:56PC Dave Lockwood is on the trail of a man
0:15:56 > 0:15:59he's been hunting for more than two years.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02It's one of these, we are not sure which one.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Dave has found the wanted man's current address
0:16:04 > 0:16:06and his phone number.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08But Wieslaw Lewicz,
0:16:08 > 0:16:12wanted on four counts of fraud and theft back in Poland,
0:16:12 > 0:16:14has dodged him again.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Don't count your chickens until you've got them in handcuffs.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21So, yeah. 2014, we tried and failed.
0:16:21 > 0:16:252016, close, but who knows?
0:16:25 > 0:16:29Just as it starts to look like he'll have to give up the chase,
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Dave spots a man in a black vest some distance away.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34He looks familiar.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Right, OK. I'll get back to you shortly.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40The man disappears around the corner.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Dave heads straight after him.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46All right, cheers. Thank you.
0:16:46 > 0:16:47Bye.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54He suspects it could be the man he is looking for,
0:16:54 > 0:16:57and he's determined not to let him get away this time.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59- Hello.- You know, I'm like to ring you.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Come on, let's go to your flat and let's have a talk.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- Just, you know...- Come on, let's go round to your flat and have a chat.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Just confirm your name for me, please.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Your name? Wieslaw...
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- Lewicz.- Your date of birth?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16- 11/11/61.- Right, OK.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19There's been a warrant, or should I say,
0:17:19 > 0:17:22there's been five warrants issued for your arrest from Poland.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26So no trouble here in the UK, but in Poland,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29the police there have issued five different warrants
0:17:29 > 0:17:32for your arrest, OK?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34They've passed that here to the UK, and it's come to me
0:17:34 > 0:17:36to try and find you.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38So once you've got changed,
0:17:38 > 0:17:40and I know you've just come home from work,
0:17:40 > 0:17:42get you sorted, I will be officially arresting you,
0:17:42 > 0:17:44and we will be going to the police station.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47His days on the run are over.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52I've been looking for you since 2014.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Two years. Did you know?
0:17:56 > 0:17:57You don't remember?
0:17:57 > 0:18:00You don't know if police have been looking for you here?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03All your old addresses in Bradford and Leeds since 2014,
0:18:03 > 0:18:05we've looked at.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Yeah.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12After two years of searching, Dave has his man at last.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Any questions or anything, or...?
0:18:17 > 0:18:18You're all right? OK.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23He'll spend the night in the cells
0:18:23 > 0:18:26before being taken to London to appear before a judge
0:18:26 > 0:18:28at the extradition court in the morning.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37Back in January 2015,
0:18:37 > 0:18:41Merseyside brothers Terrence and Michael Earle
0:18:41 > 0:18:44plotted to traffic over half a million pounds
0:18:44 > 0:18:47of cannabis resin from Liverpool to South Wales
0:18:47 > 0:18:49in the back of a lorry.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53These individuals are resourceful, they're shrewd,
0:18:53 > 0:18:58and quite deliberate in their approach to trafficking drugs.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02But the plan backfired when police intercepted the truck
0:19:02 > 0:19:04and seized the haul.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08They then spent months searching Merseyside for the brothers.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11But it was a nationwide appeal on Crimewatch
0:19:11 > 0:19:14that eventually led to a tip-off.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16One call in particular pointed us to the fact
0:19:16 > 0:19:22that the Earle brothers may well be overseas, in particular, in Holland.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26And six months later, that's where one was found.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29In January 2016, as Dutch police
0:19:29 > 0:19:32were being filmed for this programme,
0:19:32 > 0:19:37Terrence Earle, in the hooded coat, made an unexpected cameo appearance.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39While we give the interview,
0:19:39 > 0:19:41three men passes the camera.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44One of our crew,
0:19:44 > 0:19:48one of the police officers thought to recognise somebody
0:19:48 > 0:19:50who is wanted by the English police.
0:19:50 > 0:19:54We break the interview, and we followed that guy.
0:19:54 > 0:20:00That guy was going to his car, to a parking garage over here.
0:20:00 > 0:20:06And when the car came out of the garage, Dutch police were waiting.
0:20:06 > 0:20:11They stopped the vehicle and questioned the three men inside.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14One of the passengers had no identification.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19It wasn't long before officers at the UK's National Crime Agency
0:20:19 > 0:20:23got an unexpected call.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26In the Netherlands, it's a requirement for Dutch nationals
0:20:26 > 0:20:30and for foreign nationals to be carrying some form of ID on them.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33So when people are stopped and they have no driving licence,
0:20:33 > 0:20:37they have no passport, they have no kind of photographic ID,
0:20:37 > 0:20:41it does raise suspicions.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Checks soon confirmed that the man who'd walked past the camera
0:20:44 > 0:20:47was the fugitive drug smuggler.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49So they've taken him into the station
0:20:49 > 0:20:52and determined that his name is Terrence Earle
0:20:52 > 0:20:57and that he was wanted here in the UK by South Wales Police
0:20:57 > 0:21:00for, they believe, drug offences.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02With Terrence Earle in custody,
0:21:02 > 0:21:06it was time to focus on his brother, Michael.
0:21:06 > 0:21:11He was thought to be in Spain, until another lucky break -
0:21:11 > 0:21:13this time, from airport security.
0:21:13 > 0:21:18He is flying in from Dubai, transits through Madrid airport,
0:21:18 > 0:21:21they've got the EAW in their hands, they're ready for him.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24I think he was travelling on his genuine ID,
0:21:24 > 0:21:27so there's no issue establishing who he was,
0:21:27 > 0:21:29and arrested and taken into custody.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31So within two months or so,
0:21:31 > 0:21:34we had both of the Earle brothers apprehended.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39For more than a year, the Earles had stayed one step ahead of the law.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43But now the brothers who'd tried to flood the streets of South Wales
0:21:43 > 0:21:46with drugs had run out of luck.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48It's the old adage within my world
0:21:48 > 0:21:50that we've only got to be lucky once,
0:21:50 > 0:21:52they need to be lucky all the time,
0:21:52 > 0:21:56and it's true when it comes to both Michael and Terrence Earle.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59They probably felt they were untouchable,
0:21:59 > 0:22:01but unfortunately for them, they weren't.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10It's just after 5am,
0:22:10 > 0:22:16and DS Pete Rance is outside a house in Leighton Buzzard.
0:22:16 > 0:22:1820 miles away in Bedford,
0:22:18 > 0:22:20two detectives are waiting for his signal.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23- TELEPHONE RINGS - Hello.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27We are in situ and good to go whenever.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29The team are hunting for two
0:22:29 > 0:22:31brothers wanted in Tennessee
0:22:31 > 0:22:33on drugs charges.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Charles and Dane Culver
0:22:35 > 0:22:36are accused of baking brownies
0:22:36 > 0:22:38laced with magic mushrooms,
0:22:38 > 0:22:40and planning to sell them at
0:22:40 > 0:22:42a music festival.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46Distributing the class A drugs is a serious offence in the US.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51Yesterday, the officers decided to abort the arrest
0:22:51 > 0:22:53because one brother wasn't at home.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Today could be their last chance
0:22:57 > 0:23:00to seize both brothers simultaneously
0:23:00 > 0:23:05so that one doesn't get the chance to tip off the other.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07KNOCK AT DOOR
0:23:07 > 0:23:12Whilst Pete is knocking on Charles Culver's door,
0:23:12 > 0:23:14his colleagues, Dave Salmon and Jamie Derby,
0:23:14 > 0:23:18are calling on his younger brother Dane.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19They both fled while they were on bail
0:23:19 > 0:23:22which obviously ups the ante a little bit as well
0:23:22 > 0:23:26because they've fled the United States' jurisdiction.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27If they get any inkling
0:23:27 > 0:23:28the United Kingdom authorities
0:23:28 > 0:23:32are looking for them pursuant to a US request,
0:23:32 > 0:23:34there is a good chance they, again, might go on the run.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Hello. Can you open the door, please, mate?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- Police.- Who is it?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41- Police.- For what?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Could you open the door, please?
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Pete has got a response at the first house...
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Hello, sir, thanks for opening the door.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53Pete Rance, Detective Sergeant from the Metropolitan Police. OK?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58..while the second door is opened by a woman.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00- Hi.- Is Dane in?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02- Your partner?- Yeah, why?
0:24:02 > 0:24:05- Please can we speak to him?- It's, like, five o'clock in the morning.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Yes, I know, and I'm sorry to bother you,
0:24:07 > 0:24:09but I'll explain what it's all about when I come in.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12These are my colleagues, they're both police officers as well, OK?
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Can I just ask your name?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18- Do I have to give that?- I...
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Am I obliged?
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Well, no, I'm just trying to establish who lives here.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26- It may be nothing to do with you whatsoever.- What's it regarding?
0:24:26 > 0:24:31It's to do with a matter in the United States of America.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- Right.- That's the reason I'm here.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35And it's somebody that may or may not live here
0:24:35 > 0:24:37that I need to speak to.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39- Can you just tell me your name, please?- Am I obliged to do that?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Well, you don't have to give me it.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43I suspect I might know who you are.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46- Right.- So, do you mind giving me your name?
0:24:46 > 0:24:48I'm not going to give you my name.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49You're not. OK. OK.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51All right, can I come in and speak to you,
0:24:51 > 0:24:54or do you want to do the business out in the street
0:24:54 > 0:24:55that I need to speak to you about?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57- You can speak to me here, yeah.- OK.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Whilst Pete's not getting much cooperation,
0:25:00 > 0:25:0320 miles away, Dave and Jamie have found their man
0:25:03 > 0:25:06and are arresting him.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08On the 10th of June, 2009,
0:25:08 > 0:25:10they are saying that you were in possession
0:25:10 > 0:25:12of a quantity of class A drugs
0:25:12 > 0:25:14with intent to supply to another, OK?
0:25:14 > 0:25:17So what it is, there is a warrant for your arrest in America, OK?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- Yeah.- They've issued a warrant here for your arrest.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22- Yeah.- So, this morning we are going to arrest you under that warrant,
0:25:22 > 0:25:24so you are under arrest, OK? You do not have to say anything,
0:25:24 > 0:25:27but anything you do say may be given in evidence, OK?
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Pete has no option but to get on with his arrest
0:25:30 > 0:25:32on the doorstep.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34As I say, my name is Pete Rance,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36I'm a Detective Sergeant with the Metropolitan Police.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38The reason I'm here
0:25:38 > 0:25:40is that the United States of America have made a request
0:25:40 > 0:25:43for your extradition in relation to some drugs matters.
0:25:43 > 0:25:44Are you aware of that?
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Are you aware of that?
0:25:53 > 0:25:57I've got the warrant here, it is a warrant for the arrest
0:25:57 > 0:26:02of Mr Charles Culver, date of birth, 25/9/1986.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04OK? Because I suspect you are Charles Culver,
0:26:04 > 0:26:05I am obliged to arrest you on the warrant.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07You don't have to say anything,
0:26:07 > 0:26:09but anything you do say may be given in evidence.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Do you understand? OK?
0:26:11 > 0:26:13It will be a lot easier, Charles, if we could just do this.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16You're not in trouble in the United Kingdom whatsoever.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Can I get some socks and shoes on?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Yeah, but I need to come with you.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21I've arrested you, so you will be with us at all times.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24I'll bring one of my colleagues with me, if that is OK.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27In the meantime, Jamie explains what will happen next.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31What's going to happen, we'll take you down to London this morning.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35Dane, listen to me, OK? We'll take you to London this morning, OK?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37We're going to book you into the police station,
0:26:37 > 0:26:39and then you are going to go to court, OK?
0:26:39 > 0:26:42What's going to happen in court, it's only an initial hearing.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45The judge will ask you if you want to go to America by consent
0:26:45 > 0:26:47to sort this matter out, OK?
0:26:47 > 0:26:49If you say yes,
0:26:49 > 0:26:50then in a number of days,
0:26:50 > 0:26:53it will be arranged for you to go back to America, OK?
0:26:53 > 0:26:58If you say no, it will be a long, drawn-out process, OK?
0:26:58 > 0:27:01Pete's team have done the double,
0:27:01 > 0:27:03and the wanted brothers are taken away into custody.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09All things considered,
0:27:09 > 0:27:12holding off yesterday was the right decision
0:27:12 > 0:27:16because we've managed to arrest both of the people
0:27:16 > 0:27:19that were wanted at the same time.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22If the brothers are extradited back to the US to stand trial
0:27:22 > 0:27:24and found guilty,
0:27:24 > 0:27:31they could face a maximum term of 25 years in prison without parole.
0:27:31 > 0:27:36While in custody, the brothers give their side of the story to Pete.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38The Culver brothers were doing it to raise money,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41according to their side of the events,
0:27:41 > 0:27:44for Charles Culver's medical treatment.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48So he was cultivating magic mushrooms to sell them
0:27:48 > 0:27:50to fund his medical insurance.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53That's the reason he's ended up getting arrested over here.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01In February, 2017,
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Charles and Dane Culver
0:28:03 > 0:28:08were extradited back to the USA to face trial.
0:28:08 > 0:28:09Wieslaw Lewicz,
0:28:09 > 0:28:12the man accused of fraud in West Yorkshire,
0:28:12 > 0:28:14has now been extradited back to Poland.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18And in May 2016,
0:28:18 > 0:28:20drug traffickers Terrence and Michael Earle
0:28:20 > 0:28:24were both sentenced to three years in prison.