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 > 0:00:15Give me your hands.
0:00:15 > 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 > 0:00:22A lot of these people are waiting for that knock on the door.
0:00:22 > 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 > 0:00:37where the villains seek a life of luxury,
0:00:37 > 0:00:39to the busy streets of the Dutch capital
0:00:39 > 0:00:43where many continue their life of crime.
0:00:43 > 0:00:44GLASS SMASHES
0:00:44 > 0:00:48We join the crack teams hunting them down.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51When you take the risk to come to Amsterdam as a criminal,
0:00:51 > 0:00:53there's a high chance that we get you.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57When it comes to justice, borders are no barrier.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00You're under arrest under the Extradition Act 2003.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03This is how the police take down the fugitives...
0:01:03 > 0:01:04Police officer!
0:01:04 > 0:01:07..both at home and abroad.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11If you're thinking of running, don't.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13We will find you.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15We will bring you back.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24Coming up on today's programme:
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Wanted in America -
0:01:26 > 0:01:31a double dawn raid on two brothers accused of drug-dealing.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33Just tell me your name, please.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35- I'm not going to give you my name. - You're not. OK.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39The paedophile captured within hours of the start of a campaign
0:01:39 > 0:01:41to find fugitives abroad.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Literally within an hour or so of the launch
0:01:46 > 0:01:49we'd received information telling us exactly where he is
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and had him arrested.
0:01:52 > 0:01:53And unlucky in Amsterdam -
0:01:53 > 0:01:56the Liverpool drug baron who ended up behind bars
0:01:56 > 0:02:00after an unexpected appearance on this programme.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03My fugitive walked past the camera.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Extraordinary set of circumstances,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08and I'd like to know the odds on that one.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15West Yorkshire Police have one of the busiest
0:02:15 > 0:02:17extradition units in the UK.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19In the last year alone,
0:02:19 > 0:02:23they have brought in more than 100 fugitives
0:02:23 > 0:02:26wanted for offences committed in other European countries.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30This kind of police work takes persistence,
0:02:30 > 0:02:35and PC Dave Lockwood and his partner PC Tom Allen are experts.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Today, they're out looking for a man they have been hunting
0:02:40 > 0:02:41for more than two years.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46But now Dave has new information which he hopes will crack the case.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49This intelligence is only two months old.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51It's one I worked on in 2014
0:02:51 > 0:02:53where I was looking for him,
0:02:53 > 0:02:57and he had connections to Leeds and Bradford with a number of addresses.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59We didn't manage to locate him,
0:02:59 > 0:03:03and it's now come back to us with a new address in Wakefield.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06We don't know anything of him for sure.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09We don't know if he's been in West Yorkshire for five years.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12So whether he's here or not, I don't know.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16The man they're after is called Wieslaw Lewicz.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21Poland has issued no less than five separate warrants for his arrest.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Dave explains what the man is accused of.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28What he has done while he's been in Poland
0:03:28 > 0:03:29is he's either run a company,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32or agreed to import or export cars for people,
0:03:32 > 0:03:34he's taken a significant deposit
0:03:34 > 0:03:36and then not followed up or done anything.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39And he's done that repetitively, with different people,
0:03:39 > 0:03:43gaining quite a bit of money in the process.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45So we're going to try and locate him,
0:03:45 > 0:03:47execute these five warrants and take him into custody.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54The new intelligence has identified this house
0:03:54 > 0:03:56as the home of the fugitive.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00But it's not him who answers the door.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03- Hello.- I hear you. - OK. Do you speak good English?
0:04:03 > 0:04:06- Yes, of course, I speak.- Are we OK to come in and speak with you?
0:04:06 > 0:04:08- Yes.- Cheers, thank you.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Are you well? We were thinking that there was another man living here,
0:04:11 > 0:04:15and we've come to speak to another man, called...
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Wieslaw.
0:04:16 > 0:04:21No... He doesn't live here.
0:04:21 > 0:04:27- Right.- I allowed him to take correspondence here.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31'The man Dave's after has been using this house in Wakefield
0:04:31 > 0:04:32'as a postal address.'
0:04:32 > 0:04:33..the number, would you?
0:04:33 > 0:04:35'His friend reluctantly reveals
0:04:35 > 0:04:38'that Wieslaw Lewicz is still living in Bradford,
0:04:38 > 0:04:40'more than an hour's drive away.'
0:04:42 > 0:04:43'Now it's a race against time.'
0:04:45 > 0:04:47The chap that was helping us,
0:04:47 > 0:04:49that was talking to us and giving us the information,
0:04:49 > 0:04:51his loyalty is to his friend.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54While he's tried to help us and appear like he was helping us,
0:04:54 > 0:04:58which he was, it was genuine, he couldn't at first give us his word
0:04:58 > 0:05:01that when I left the address he wouldn't ring him straightaway
0:05:01 > 0:05:03and tell him we were there looking for him.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05So, with an hour that's passed now,
0:05:05 > 0:05:09we don't know if he's been phoned and tipped off
0:05:09 > 0:05:13or he's going to give us a bit of time to get over and talk to him.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Dave knows the time he's spent on the road
0:05:16 > 0:05:19has given his target ample opportunity to go on the run.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26So, will the man he's been hunting for two years
0:05:26 > 0:05:28be at this new address?
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Or will he manage to dodge the law once more?
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Hello?
0:05:39 > 0:05:42London is home to more than 8.5 million people.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47Hidden amongst them are men and women on the run from the law.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52Many of them are wanted for crimes committed in other countries.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57It's the job of the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit
0:05:57 > 0:05:59to find them and bring them to justice.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04It's very difficult to find people
0:06:04 > 0:06:06if they're hiding in a city like London.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08We invest a lot of time, a lot of resources,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10into the work that we do,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13and we think we're fairly successful at what we do.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15We arrested over 550 people last year
0:06:15 > 0:06:17for extradition requests.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20And we don't stop working until we can either show
0:06:20 > 0:06:23they've left the jurisdiction or never been here in the first place,
0:06:23 > 0:06:24or we've arrested them.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Quite simply, we don't give up.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31This morning, DS Pete Rance is leading a team of detectives
0:06:31 > 0:06:34in search of a fugitive wanted in Norway.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37We think he's living at an address in West London.
0:06:37 > 0:06:42We've managed to get a warrant for his arrest.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48And we're going to go and see if he's at the address this morning.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53The man they're after was convicted of dealing heroin
0:06:53 > 0:06:57and sentenced to more than three years in prison,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59but he never served the time.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04The crimes were committed in 2012.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08He was summoned to prison in 2014.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11And he didn't turn up.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15The offences were committed in Norway.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Even though it's not part of the EU,
0:07:18 > 0:07:22the country has an agreement to share extradition arrangements
0:07:22 > 0:07:24with the rest of Europe.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Just going to have a little look and see if we can see it.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29When he arrives at the address,
0:07:29 > 0:07:33Pete meets up with the rest of the team to brief them on the case.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38He's convicted of heroin-dealing
0:07:38 > 0:07:43and cannabis-dealing in Norway in 2012.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47This block of flats just round here.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49He's not moved here to set up a new life
0:07:49 > 0:07:52and to carry on as if nothing had happened.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54He's on the run.
0:07:54 > 0:07:55Really, those sorts of cases,
0:07:55 > 0:07:59they're pretty much a needle in a haystack.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03You have to go with the leads as and when you get them.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05It's well before dawn,
0:08:05 > 0:08:08so it's unlikely the fugitive will spot them arriving.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Matt, do you want to just cover round?
0:08:11 > 0:08:15But gaining access to the block of flats could be tricky.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22The door is locked.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29- Police.- They wake one of the residents to let them in.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32I'm really sorry to wake you up, I'm from the police.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34It's nothing for you to worry about, though.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37OK. Sorry. You can go back to sleep.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39We need to come in here, OK?
0:08:42 > 0:08:43Making their way upstairs,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46Pete checks for any signs that somebody is at the address.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Can you open the door, please? It's the police. It's the police.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14- Hello, sir.- Hi. - Sorry to trouble you.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16- MAN LAUGHS - Is it two separate flats?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- Yeah.- Who lives here?
0:09:18 > 0:09:19- Uh, kitchen.- Huh?
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- Just you live here?- Yeah.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26OK, have you got some ID, please? Got an ID card?
0:09:26 > 0:09:27Yes.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Sorry to trouble you. How long have you lived here?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32About four months.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34- Four months.- Yeah.- OK.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Inside the flat, each room is rented separately.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40All right, sorry to trouble you. Do you live here alone?
0:09:40 > 0:09:43I'm from the police. You live here alone?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:09:45 > 0:09:49OK, no problem. Thank you for your help.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50Sorry to trouble you.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53But none of the rooms are sheltering the heroin dealer.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56What you find with these particular cases
0:09:56 > 0:09:59is that they're living quite temporal existences,
0:09:59 > 0:10:01they'll move from address to address very, very quickly,
0:10:01 > 0:10:03so you need a bit of luck on your side
0:10:03 > 0:10:05and, unfortunately, on that morning we didn't get the luck,
0:10:05 > 0:10:07he'd already moved on.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Not all fugitive searches are successful,
0:10:09 > 0:10:13and this morning's lead has come to nothing.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16The drug dealer who should be in prison in Norway
0:10:16 > 0:10:18has evaded capture - for now.
0:10:20 > 0:10:21But as dawn breaks,
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Pete reckons there's time for the team to split up
0:10:24 > 0:10:27and tackle a case involving American brothers.
0:10:27 > 0:10:32It's a two-pronged attack and timing will be crucial.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35I'm pretty confident our bloke's going to be there, cos the car's there.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38I'll let you do yours, because it might rattle the cage
0:10:38 > 0:10:39and when we get there he might be up.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49Some fugitives who go on the run may think they've got away with it.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53And those who flee the country
0:10:53 > 0:10:55and escape to the sunny beaches of Spain
0:10:55 > 0:10:58might believe they're out of the reach of the law.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01But they'd be wrong.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07These giant screens displaying wanted faces
0:11:07 > 0:11:10are part of a cross-border operation
0:11:10 > 0:11:15between British and Spanish law enforcement, codenamed Captura.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Operation Captura is a campaign that we run
0:11:21 > 0:11:24in conjunction with Crimestoppers, in conjunction with the Spanish,
0:11:24 > 0:11:25and it's a campaign where we focus
0:11:25 > 0:11:28on some of the UK's most-wanted individuals
0:11:28 > 0:11:29who we believe are in Spain.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34It really helps us, it gets people's faces out there,
0:11:34 > 0:11:36it gets them into people's subconscious.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39So they may be on holiday, they may just be there for a couple of weeks,
0:11:39 > 0:11:40but they're always thinking,
0:11:40 > 0:11:43perhaps, you know, I'll keep my eye out for this person.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45So we get a lot of intelligence through,
0:11:45 > 0:11:46perhaps from holiday-makers,
0:11:46 > 0:11:48sometimes from expats who are living there,
0:11:48 > 0:11:50and from Spanish nationals as well.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57Operation Captura was launched in 2006,
0:11:57 > 0:11:58and in the years since
0:11:58 > 0:12:02it's proved to be devastatingly effective.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05It was a trial -
0:12:05 > 0:12:08we'd never worked to that extent with the public before,
0:12:08 > 0:12:11we'd never worked with Crimestoppers to that extent before,
0:12:11 > 0:12:13and we didn't know what would happen.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16It's fair to say that the success over the ten years
0:12:16 > 0:12:18has been overwhelming.
0:12:18 > 0:12:2190% and more of all the people that have been put on the list
0:12:21 > 0:12:24have been apprehended, arrested,
0:12:24 > 0:12:26and have been brought back
0:12:26 > 0:12:29and have faced trial and justice here.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Captura is focused on Spain,
0:12:33 > 0:12:37a popular destination for British criminals on the run.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41I think all the British like Spain,
0:12:41 > 0:12:44so it doesn't matter if they are criminals or not.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48For them it's much easier to hide here
0:12:48 > 0:12:50because around one million British live here.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53It's easier for them to hide here than maybe in another country.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00But while they know where the British expats congregate,
0:13:00 > 0:13:03it's not easy for Spanish police to get in amongst them.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08There is a lot of British bars.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11It's really hard for us to get in there,
0:13:11 > 0:13:13because as soon as you get into the bar
0:13:13 > 0:13:16they know you're a Spanish police officer, so it's really hard for us.
0:13:18 > 0:13:23Operation Captura gets eyes and ears right inside those communities.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25We've had many, many instances
0:13:25 > 0:13:27where the public have come across these people
0:13:27 > 0:13:29in bars, in clubs, in pubs,
0:13:29 > 0:13:32engaged them in conversation and then come away and thought,
0:13:32 > 0:13:35"Do you know, I recognise that person."
0:13:35 > 0:13:37People have rang in and then they've been arrested as a result.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42Later, shopped to the police by expats -
0:13:42 > 0:13:45how the operation achieved one of its biggest successes
0:13:45 > 0:13:48with the arrest of this paedophile.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00It's the right place, 100% the right place,
0:14:00 > 0:14:02whether he's going to be in there or not I don't know.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06PC Dave Lockwood and his colleague PC Tom Allen
0:14:06 > 0:14:09have arrived at a house in Bradford
0:14:09 > 0:14:12looking for a Polish man accused of theft and fraud.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Let's go see what we find.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19You keep the visual from down there.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20More than an hour ago
0:14:20 > 0:14:24Dave got this address from a friend of the wanted man.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28But he's concerned his target may have been tipped off
0:14:28 > 0:14:30that the police are coming for him.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34It might be this one,
0:14:34 > 0:14:37or it might be the white door to the left of me where I am.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40There's no answer.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44Dave doesn't know which of the flats the wanted man could be in.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48It's one of these, we're not sure which one.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50But there's somebody who does.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52The owner of the restaurant next door
0:14:52 > 0:14:56is the wanted man's landlord and he's got a spare key.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02- Just want to leave it to us for a minute? Is it flats?- Yeah.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Just come and show us which flat he's got.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Hello, it's the police, open the door, please!
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Are you happy to open this and let us have a check?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Because the window's open - we think he could be in there.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19D'you just want to stand back for us?
0:15:19 > 0:15:20Cheers, thanks.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23Tom, door's open, I'm going in.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26Hello?
0:15:27 > 0:15:28Hello?
0:15:32 > 0:15:34Tom's heard a bang up here when we've come through the door,
0:15:34 > 0:15:38and in this guy's flat he's got his mobile phone,
0:15:38 > 0:15:41he's got everything there as if he'd just walked out.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44So we're just being thorough and checking that...
0:15:44 > 0:15:47We're just checking that there's...
0:15:47 > 0:15:50nowhere he could have gone if he was home.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52His belongings are all there,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55but there's no sign of the man they're after -
0:15:55 > 0:15:58until Dave gets hold of another phone number for him.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59Bear with me a minute.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03- Hello, is that Wieslaw?- Yes.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Wieslaw, hello, it's PC Lockwood from West Yorkshire Police.
0:16:06 > 0:16:10Hello? Hello, it's PC Lockwood from West Yorkshire Police.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12The phone call seems to come as a surprise.
0:16:12 > 0:16:13I need to speak with you,
0:16:13 > 0:16:18I'm just wondering if you'd be willing to meet me and, uh...
0:16:18 > 0:16:20So we could speak.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Well, where are you now?
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Oh, right, OK. Well, I'm in Bradford too,
0:16:25 > 0:16:28so do you want me to come to where you are now?
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Say it again.
0:16:30 > 0:16:35The fugitive doesn't seem too keen to meet up.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36He didn't want to meet with us,
0:16:36 > 0:16:38he says he's got something to do tonight.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42He seemed quite evasive on the phone,
0:16:42 > 0:16:44that anything I suggested he wasn't up for,
0:16:44 > 0:16:48and he said he'll hand himself in to a police station tomorrow.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52We can't work on that and just quit looking for him, thinking that -
0:16:52 > 0:16:54we've got to take him for his word.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55The landlord has just told me
0:16:55 > 0:16:58he's actually given notice a week and a half ago,
0:16:58 > 0:17:01given two weeks' notice that he's moving out.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03So that suggests, maybe this weekend,
0:17:03 > 0:17:05as soon as he moves out of this property, we've lost him.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08So we've got today and tomorrow, I guess,
0:17:08 > 0:17:11to try and locate him.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13'The clock is ticking,
0:17:13 > 0:17:18'and the suspected fraudster seems to have escaped justice yet again.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21'But after spending two years searching,
0:17:21 > 0:17:23'could an unexpected sighting
0:17:23 > 0:17:25'lead to a lucky break for Dave?'
0:17:31 > 0:17:35Liverpool - a city with a proud history of exports.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37But in 2015, police were trying to stop
0:17:37 > 0:17:40a very different kind of export.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44On a cold January morning,
0:17:44 > 0:17:49undercover cops staked out a fast-food restaurant.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56Through a long lens, they snapped a group of men
0:17:56 > 0:18:00discussing a plan to traffic a huge haul of cannabis resin.
0:18:04 > 0:18:09Among the conspirators was this man, Terrence Earle.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Earle and younger brother Michael
0:18:12 > 0:18:15planned to smuggle the drugs in the back of a lorry later that day.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Both Michael and Terrence Earle are significant individuals
0:18:19 > 0:18:21within the organised-crime world.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25These individuals are resourceful,
0:18:25 > 0:18:27they're shrewd and quite deliberate
0:18:27 > 0:18:30in their approach to trafficking drugs.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Detectives were one step ahead of the brothers.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38They had intelligence the drugs were destined for South Wales.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45As the cannabis resin was loaded from a white van onto a lorry,
0:18:45 > 0:18:49officers in Liverpool were working with their south Wales colleagues
0:18:49 > 0:18:53to stop it, and catch the men behind the drugs ring.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55The decision was made between myself
0:18:55 > 0:18:58and the senior detective in charge in Merseyside
0:18:58 > 0:19:00that we would follow the vehicle
0:19:00 > 0:19:02and, when it comes into the Wales region,
0:19:02 > 0:19:06that we would pull it over in a safe environment.
0:19:06 > 0:19:11By one o'clock that day, the shipment was on its way.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Julian Bull and his team had to act fast.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17It always runs through your mind, the what-ifs.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19What if the vehicle doesn't stop?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21But, yeah, I've got to say,
0:19:21 > 0:19:24it's quite anxious and actually exciting time as well,
0:19:24 > 0:19:28because you know, within a short period of time,
0:19:28 > 0:19:31you could be taking a large amount of controlled drugs
0:19:31 > 0:19:34destined for south Wales off the street.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39Unmarked police cars tailed the lorry as it travelled south.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41As it neared its destination,
0:19:41 > 0:19:45police decided it was time to act.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46It was along this stretch
0:19:46 > 0:19:49that I felt this was the most appropriate time
0:19:49 > 0:19:51to bring the vehicle to a stop.
0:19:51 > 0:19:56In the lorry, they found 179 kilos of cannabis resin
0:19:56 > 0:20:00with a street value of over half a million pounds.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Police now went after the men
0:20:05 > 0:20:09who had organised this drug-smuggling operation.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13But by now the Earle brothers had disappeared,
0:20:13 > 0:20:15their whereabouts a closely guarded secret
0:20:15 > 0:20:19amongst the organised crime gangs of Liverpool.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Both Michael and Terrence, obviously, being brothers,
0:20:21 > 0:20:23have trust, and that is a key ingredient
0:20:23 > 0:20:26to either their success or demise.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28We wanted to try and break that seal
0:20:28 > 0:20:30and try and locate these individuals.
0:20:32 > 0:20:38In August, 2015, after seven months of painstaking detective work,
0:20:38 > 0:20:42police believed they had found where the brothers were hiding out.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45They prepared to arrest them in a series of dawn raids.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51Failure never came into my mind-set that morning.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53The meticulous planning that had taken place,
0:20:53 > 0:20:55the evidence we had gathered,
0:20:55 > 0:20:58there was only going to be one outcome for me and that was success.
0:20:58 > 0:21:04Unfortunately over the next 15 minutes or so
0:21:04 > 0:21:07my worst dreams came true.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09They had gone on the run.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13Somehow, the Earles had slipped the net.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Detective Inspector Bull turned to the public for help.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20'Number six tonight is this man, Terrence Andrew Earle.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23'Detectives in South Wales want to talk to him...'
0:21:23 > 0:21:26We had a number of calls, but one call in particular
0:21:26 > 0:21:28pointed us to the fact
0:21:28 > 0:21:32that the Earle brothers may well be overseas, in particular, in Holland.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34A year after they had gone on the run,
0:21:34 > 0:21:37the Earles were now international fugitives.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42But then, while we were filming for this programme,
0:21:42 > 0:21:45one of the brothers revealed his location
0:21:45 > 0:21:47in the most unexpected way.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49My fugitive walked past the camera.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Extraordinary set of circumstances,
0:21:51 > 0:21:54and I'd like to know the odds on that one.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Detective Sergeant Pete Rance from the Met's extradition unit
0:22:04 > 0:22:06is on his way to Bedfordshire
0:22:06 > 0:22:10to track down one of two brothers wanted in America on drugs charges.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15They are wanted out in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Charged with the cultivation and supply
0:22:17 > 0:22:21of almost 4kg of illegal hallucinogenic mushrooms
0:22:21 > 0:22:24back in 2009,
0:22:24 > 0:22:25Charles Culver and his brother Dane
0:22:25 > 0:22:29fled the United States while awaiting trial.
0:22:29 > 0:22:33Charles and Dane Culver are wanted for serious offences,
0:22:33 > 0:22:34offences which in the States
0:22:34 > 0:22:37will attract really lengthy custodial sentences.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40They'd fled the States whilst they were on bail,
0:22:40 > 0:22:43and it was important that they weren't given an opportunity
0:22:43 > 0:22:45to do that again.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48But the two brothers lived 20 miles apart.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Obviously, when you've got a situation like this,
0:22:50 > 0:22:53where there's two living at separate addresses,
0:22:53 > 0:22:55you'll be careful how you handle that
0:22:55 > 0:22:58because if one gets to speak to the other one,
0:22:58 > 0:23:00or gets wind of the fact that one's been arrested,
0:23:00 > 0:23:03or the police have attended an address,
0:23:03 > 0:23:05your chances of actually locating
0:23:05 > 0:23:07and getting both of them are minimised.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10Pete has sent a second team of detectives
0:23:10 > 0:23:13to the other address to try to catch both brothers
0:23:13 > 0:23:14at the same time.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Their investigation has led them to this street,
0:23:22 > 0:23:25but Pete wants to be sure they've got the right house.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30It's the brown door one, straight ahead.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36So, not the white one, but the one next to it.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Gosh, it's freezing out there.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43I just wanted to check the doors
0:23:43 > 0:23:48so I know which address we're dealing with, but the car,
0:23:48 > 0:23:53that silver Mazda, is the car registered to him at that address.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56The curtains are drawn on the bedroom upstairs,
0:23:56 > 0:24:01but we'll just wait and see how the fellows get on at the other address.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Although everything suggests this wanted man is at home,
0:24:05 > 0:24:10they need to be sure his brother is also in his house 20 miles away...
0:24:10 > 0:24:13- All right?- ..otherwise, one could tip off the other.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Yeah, we're outside it, yeah.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17We're in the road.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21I'm pretty confident our bloke's going to be there
0:24:21 > 0:24:22cos the car's there.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25I'll let you do yours because it might rattle the cage
0:24:25 > 0:24:27and when we get there, he might be up.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30All right, I'll speak to you in a minute.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34Pete waits to see what the other team, led by DS Jamie Derby, find,
0:24:34 > 0:24:37before making his move.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41But when they call him back, it's not what he wants to hear.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42How's it going?
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Have you got him?
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Jamie had gone to Dane Culver's address
0:24:48 > 0:24:51and ascertained that whilst he lived there,
0:24:51 > 0:24:52he wasn't in, so I was confident
0:24:52 > 0:24:55that Charles Culver was in at the address at Leighton Buzzard.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58It left a bit of a dilemma, really, in the decision to be made.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00If he's there, Jay, and he's living there,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03we might be better off doing it in the morning.
0:25:03 > 0:25:04It was a big decision to make
0:25:04 > 0:25:08because you potentially run the risk of both of them being alerted
0:25:08 > 0:25:10and both going on the run.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12I might do that, then, I might call it off.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16For Pete, it's a case of double or nothing.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19He makes the decision to call off the operation.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22We're going to pull off and do both jobs really early tomorrow morning
0:25:22 > 0:25:28so we'll do them at a simultaneous arrest inquiry at both addresses,
0:25:28 > 0:25:31and, hopefully, get both of them tomorrow.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34So, it's a little bit of a holdback to, hopefully...
0:25:34 > 0:25:38get the pair of them,
0:25:38 > 0:25:41rather than start chasing around having to get one after the other.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45But when they return the next morning,
0:25:45 > 0:25:49can the detectives be sure they've got the right men?
0:25:49 > 0:25:52- Just tell me your name, please. - Am I obliged to do that?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Well, you don't have to give me it.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56- I suspect I might know who you are. - Right.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Across Spain, these giant billboards
0:26:07 > 0:26:09display the faces of Britain's most wanted.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14It's called Operation Captura,
0:26:14 > 0:26:16and it was set up to catch those
0:26:16 > 0:26:19who thought they'd outwitted the law.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21It's the human flight-or-fight syndrome.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Most people will stop,
0:26:23 > 0:26:25give themselves up
0:26:25 > 0:26:27and be dealt with by the system.
0:26:27 > 0:26:33The very, very few that run are, I think, quite arrogant in nature.
0:26:33 > 0:26:38They're very confident, and they think that they can beat the system.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40One man whose face appeared on Captura
0:26:40 > 0:26:43was convicted paedophile Michael McCartney.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48He was a charity worker in Hertfordshire,
0:26:48 > 0:26:51who for years had been secretly grooming
0:26:51 > 0:26:54and sexually assaulting young boys.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57He was buying their affection, he was grooming them,
0:26:57 > 0:27:01he was doing all the things that they didn't have in their lives
0:27:01 > 0:27:04by buying them sweets, taking them on holidays
0:27:04 > 0:27:08and making them feel that they had a connection with himself.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Therefore, he was picking on the most vulnerable children.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14In 2013,
0:27:14 > 0:27:19McCartney was found guilty of 11 counts of child sexual abuse
0:27:19 > 0:27:24at Cambridge Crown Court, but before he could be sentenced, he vanished.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29It became really quickly evident that he had done everything he could
0:27:29 > 0:27:35to plan his escape and plan to disappear out of the UK.
0:27:36 > 0:27:41Law enforcement turned to the public for their help tracking down
0:27:41 > 0:27:44this dangerous paedophile.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48This was a man who'd committed 11 offences of contact abuse
0:27:48 > 0:27:54against young boys. So it posed a real risk to the public.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Afraid that McCartney could offend again,
0:27:57 > 0:27:59the paedophile's face was prominently displayed
0:27:59 > 0:28:01on electronic billboards
0:28:01 > 0:28:03on the Spanish Costas.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06The result was nothing short of astounding.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10Literally, within an hour or so of the launch in Spain,
0:28:10 > 0:28:12we'd received information telling us
0:28:12 > 0:28:15exactly where he is at that moment in time,
0:28:15 > 0:28:17and we were able to work with the Spanish police
0:28:17 > 0:28:19and have him arrested.
0:28:19 > 0:28:24McCartney was arrested in Alicante, and less than 12 hours later,
0:28:24 > 0:28:27the child abuser found himself being led off in handcuffs
0:28:27 > 0:28:31to serve the sentence he had tried to escape.
0:28:31 > 0:28:35The speed with which McCartney was given over to us
0:28:35 > 0:28:38tends to suggest that he was in plain sight somewhere,
0:28:38 > 0:28:41people didn't know the offences he had committed,
0:28:41 > 0:28:45didn't know about his past, and as soon as they found out,
0:28:45 > 0:28:46they told us.
0:28:46 > 0:28:51Operation Captura was massive in the fact that the game was up.
0:28:51 > 0:28:55We got him, he was arrested and is now in a prison cell.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03In West Yorkshire,
0:29:03 > 0:29:05PC Dave Lockwood is on the trail of a man
0:29:05 > 0:29:08he's been hunting for more than two years.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10It's one of these, we are not sure which one.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13Dave has found the wanted man's current address
0:29:13 > 0:29:15and his phone number.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17But Wieslaw Lewicz,
0:29:17 > 0:29:20wanted on four counts of fraud and theft back in Poland,
0:29:20 > 0:29:22has dodged him again.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25Don't count your chickens until you've got them in handcuffs.
0:29:25 > 0:29:29So, yeah. 2014, we tried and failed.
0:29:29 > 0:29:342016, close, but who knows?
0:29:34 > 0:29:38Just as it starts to look like he'll have to give up the chase,
0:29:38 > 0:29:41Dave spots a man in a black vest some distance away.
0:29:41 > 0:29:43He looks familiar.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46Right, OK. I'll get back to you shortly.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49The man disappears around the corner.
0:29:49 > 0:29:50Dave heads straight after him.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55All right, cheers. Thank you.
0:29:55 > 0:29:56Bye.
0:29:59 > 0:30:03He suspects it could be the man he is looking for,
0:30:03 > 0:30:06and he's determined not to let him get away this time.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11- Hello.- You know, I'm like to ring you.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14Come on, let's go to your flat and let's have a talk.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17- Just, you know...- Come on, let's go round to your flat and have a chat.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19The hunt is finally over.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21It's time for Dave to inform the man
0:30:21 > 0:30:25about the warrants issued for his arrest.
0:30:25 > 0:30:29The news doesn't seem to come as much of a surprise.
0:30:29 > 0:30:33Just confirm your name for me, please.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35Your name? Wieslaw...
0:30:35 > 0:30:37- Lewicz.- Your date of birth?
0:30:37 > 0:30:41- 11/11/61.- Right, OK.
0:30:41 > 0:30:43There's been a warrant, or should I say,
0:30:43 > 0:30:47there's been five warrants issued for your arrest from Poland.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50So no trouble here in the UK, but in Poland,
0:30:50 > 0:30:53the police there have issued five different warrants
0:30:53 > 0:30:56for your arrest, OK?
0:30:56 > 0:30:58They've passed that here to the UK, and it's come to me
0:30:58 > 0:31:00to try and find you.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03I've got it all here in Polish and you can read it, OK?
0:31:03 > 0:31:05- Yeah.- So once you've got changed,
0:31:05 > 0:31:07and I know you've just come home from work,
0:31:07 > 0:31:09get you sorted, I will be officially arresting you,
0:31:09 > 0:31:12and we will be going to the police station tonight.
0:31:12 > 0:31:14- Tonight?- Tonight.- Now, yeah?
0:31:14 > 0:31:16Once you've got changed, yeah.
0:31:16 > 0:31:18- OK.- So, tonight.- It's possible I take a shower and change?
0:31:18 > 0:31:21Shower at the police station. You can't have a shower here.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24I'll let you wash your face and get changed and that.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29Just going to get him freshened up and change of clothes.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32I've got to officially arrest you now, OK?
0:31:32 > 0:31:34I've explained why we're here,
0:31:34 > 0:31:36and, obviously, allowed you to get changed and everything else.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40So I'm arresting you on five European arrest warrants.
0:31:40 > 0:31:41That issue would be by Poland
0:31:41 > 0:31:44for a variety of offences which I've explained.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46So you do not have to say anything,
0:31:46 > 0:31:49but anything you do say may be given in evidence.
0:31:49 > 0:31:50OK?
0:31:50 > 0:31:52The passport you showed me,
0:31:52 > 0:31:55I'm seizing that because I need to have control of that passport, OK?
0:31:55 > 0:31:57I'm not going to handcuff you
0:31:57 > 0:31:59because there's been no messing about,
0:31:59 > 0:32:01but if that changes, then I'll have to handcuff you.
0:32:01 > 0:32:03But if you stay chilled, we'll be all right.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06So we're going to go down to Bradford Police Station now, OK?
0:32:06 > 0:32:08What time is it? OK, come through.
0:32:08 > 0:32:10Come on.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13His days on the run are over.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17I've been looking for you since 2014.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Two years. Did you know?
0:32:22 > 0:32:23You don't remember?
0:32:23 > 0:32:25You don't know if police have been looking for you here?
0:32:25 > 0:32:29All your old addresses in Bradford and Leeds since 2014,
0:32:29 > 0:32:31we've looked at.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33Yeah.
0:32:33 > 0:32:38After two years of searching, Dave has his man at last.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Any questions or anything, or...?
0:32:42 > 0:32:44You're all right? OK.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48He'll spend the night in the cells
0:32:48 > 0:32:51before being taken to London to appear before a judge
0:32:51 > 0:32:54at the extradition court in the morning.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03Back in January 2015,
0:33:03 > 0:33:06Merseyside brothers Terrence and Michael Earle
0:33:06 > 0:33:09plotted to traffic over half a million pounds
0:33:09 > 0:33:12of cannabis resin from Liverpool to South Wales
0:33:12 > 0:33:14in the back of a lorry.
0:33:14 > 0:33:18These individuals are resourceful, they're shrewd,
0:33:18 > 0:33:24and quite deliberate in their approach to trafficking drugs.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27But the plan backfired when police intercepted the truck
0:33:27 > 0:33:29and seized the haul.
0:33:29 > 0:33:34They then spent months searching Merseyside for the brothers.
0:33:34 > 0:33:37But it was a nationwide appeal on Crimewatch
0:33:37 > 0:33:39that eventually led to a tip-off.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42One call in particular pointed us to the fact
0:33:42 > 0:33:47that the Earle brothers may well be overseas, in particular, in Holland.
0:33:47 > 0:33:52And six months later, that's where one was found.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54In January 2016, as Dutch police
0:33:54 > 0:33:57were being filmed for this programme,
0:33:57 > 0:34:02Terrence Earle, in the hooded coat, made an unexpected cameo appearance.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04While we give the interview,
0:34:04 > 0:34:06three men passes the camera.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09One of our crew,
0:34:09 > 0:34:13one of the police officers thought to recognise somebody
0:34:13 > 0:34:15who is wanted by the English police.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18We break the interview, and we followed that guy.
0:34:19 > 0:34:26That guy was going to his car, to a parking garage over here.
0:34:26 > 0:34:31And when the car came out of the garage, Dutch police were waiting.
0:34:31 > 0:34:36They stopped the vehicle and questioned the three men inside.
0:34:36 > 0:34:39One of the passengers had no identification.
0:34:41 > 0:34:45It wasn't long before officers at the UK's National Crime Agency
0:34:45 > 0:34:47got an unexpected call.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50Terrence Earle was a name I hadn't heard
0:34:50 > 0:34:53until one afternoon in January,
0:34:53 > 0:34:55a wintry afternoon, I got a call from The Hague.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58They said that a male had been stopped
0:34:58 > 0:35:00on the street in Amsterdam by police.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02He didn't have ID on him.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05In the Netherlands, it's a requirement for Dutch nationals
0:35:05 > 0:35:09and for foreign nationals to be carrying some form of ID on them.
0:35:09 > 0:35:13So when people are stopped and they have no driving licence,
0:35:13 > 0:35:16they have no passport, they have no kind of photographic ID,
0:35:16 > 0:35:20it does raise suspicions.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24Checks soon confirmed that the man who'd walked past the camera
0:35:24 > 0:35:27was the fugitive drug smuggler.
0:35:27 > 0:35:28So they've taken him into the station
0:35:28 > 0:35:31and determined that his name is Terrence Earle
0:35:31 > 0:35:36and that he was wanted here in the UK by South Wales Police
0:35:36 > 0:35:39for, they believe, drug offences.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41With Terrence Earle in custody,
0:35:41 > 0:35:45it was time to focus on his brother, Michael.
0:35:45 > 0:35:50He was thought to be in Spain, until another lucky break -
0:35:50 > 0:35:53this time, from airport security.
0:35:53 > 0:35:57He is flying in from Dubai, transits through Madrid airport,
0:35:57 > 0:36:00they've got the EAW in their hands, they're ready for him.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03I think he was travelling on his genuine ID,
0:36:03 > 0:36:06so there's no issue establishing who he was,
0:36:06 > 0:36:09and arrested and taken into custody.
0:36:09 > 0:36:10So within two months or so,
0:36:10 > 0:36:13we had both of the Earle brothers apprehended.
0:36:13 > 0:36:18For more than a year, the Earles had stayed one step ahead of the law.
0:36:18 > 0:36:22But now the brothers who'd tried to flood the streets of South Wales
0:36:22 > 0:36:25with drugs had run out of luck.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27It's the old adage within my world
0:36:27 > 0:36:29that we've only got to be lucky once,
0:36:29 > 0:36:31they need to be lucky all the time,
0:36:31 > 0:36:35and it's true when it comes to both Michael and Terrence Earle.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38They probably felt they were untouchable,
0:36:38 > 0:36:40but unfortunately for them, they weren't.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50It's just after 5am,
0:36:50 > 0:36:55and DS Pete Rance is outside a house in Leighton Buzzard.
0:36:55 > 0:36:5720 miles away in Bedford,
0:36:57 > 0:37:00two detectives are waiting for his signal.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02- TELEPHONE RINGS - Hello.
0:37:02 > 0:37:06We are in situ and good to go whenever.
0:37:06 > 0:37:10The team are hunting for two brothers wanted in Tennessee
0:37:10 > 0:37:12on drugs charges.
0:37:12 > 0:37:16Charles and Dane Culver are accused of baking brownies
0:37:16 > 0:37:17laced with magic mushrooms,
0:37:17 > 0:37:21and planning to sell them at a music festival.
0:37:21 > 0:37:25Distributing the class A drugs is a serious offence in the US.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30Yesterday, the officers decided to abort the arrest
0:37:30 > 0:37:32because one brother wasn't at home.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36Today could be their last chance
0:37:36 > 0:37:39to seize both brothers simultaneously
0:37:39 > 0:37:44so that one doesn't get the chance to tip off the other.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46KNOCK AT DOOR
0:37:46 > 0:37:51Whilst Pete is knocking on Charles Culver's door,
0:37:51 > 0:37:53his colleagues, Dave Salmon and Jamie Derby,
0:37:53 > 0:37:57are calling on his younger brother Dane.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59They both fled while they were on bail
0:37:59 > 0:38:01which obviously ups the ante a little bit as well
0:38:01 > 0:38:05because they've fled the United States' jurisdiction.
0:38:05 > 0:38:06If they get any inkling
0:38:06 > 0:38:08the United Kingdom authorities
0:38:08 > 0:38:11are looking for them pursuant to a US request,
0:38:11 > 0:38:14there is a good chance they, again, might go on the run.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16Hello. Can you open the door, please, mate?
0:38:16 > 0:38:18- Police.- Who is it?
0:38:18 > 0:38:20- Police.- For what?
0:38:20 > 0:38:22Could you open the door, please?
0:38:22 > 0:38:24Pete has got a response at the first house...
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Hello, sir, thanks for opening the door.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32Pete Rance, Detective Sergeant from the Metropolitan Police.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34OK?
0:38:34 > 0:38:37..while the second door is opened by a woman.
0:38:37 > 0:38:39- Hi.- Is Dane in?
0:38:39 > 0:38:41- Your partner?- Yeah, why?
0:38:41 > 0:38:44- Please can we speak to him?- It's, like, five o'clock in the morning.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46Yes, I know, and I'm sorry to bother you,
0:38:46 > 0:38:48but I'll explain what it's all about when I come in.
0:38:48 > 0:38:51These are my colleagues, they're both police officers as well, OK?
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Can I just ask your name?
0:38:55 > 0:38:57- Do I have to give that?- I...
0:38:57 > 0:38:59Am I obliged?
0:38:59 > 0:39:01Well, no, I'm just trying to establish who lives here.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03It may be nothing to do with you whatsoever.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05What's it regarding?
0:39:05 > 0:39:10It's to do with a matter in the United States of America.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12- Right.- That's the reason I'm here.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15And it's somebody that may or may not live here
0:39:15 > 0:39:16that I need to speak to.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19- Can you just tell me your name, please?- Am I obliged to do that?
0:39:19 > 0:39:20Well, you don't have to give me it.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22I suspect I might know who you are.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25- Right.- So, do you mind giving me your name?
0:39:25 > 0:39:27I'm not going to give you my name.
0:39:27 > 0:39:28You're not. OK. OK.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30All right, can I come in and speak to you,
0:39:30 > 0:39:33or do you want to do the business out in the street
0:39:33 > 0:39:34that I need to speak to you about?
0:39:34 > 0:39:36- You can speak to me here, yeah.- OK.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Whilst Pete's not getting much cooperation,
0:39:39 > 0:39:4320 miles away, Dave and Jamie have found their man
0:39:43 > 0:39:45and are arresting him.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47On the 10th of June, 2009,
0:39:47 > 0:39:49they are saying that you were in possession
0:39:49 > 0:39:51of a quantity of class A drugs
0:39:51 > 0:39:53with intent to supply to another, OK?
0:39:53 > 0:39:55So what it is, there is a warrant for your arrest in America, OK?
0:39:55 > 0:39:58- Yeah.- They've issued a warrant here for your arrest.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01- Yeah.- So, this morning we are going to arrest you under that warrant,
0:40:01 > 0:40:02so you are under arrest, OK?
0:40:02 > 0:40:04You do not have to say anything,
0:40:04 > 0:40:06but anything you do say may be given in evidence, OK?
0:40:06 > 0:40:09Pete has no option but to get on with his arrest
0:40:09 > 0:40:11on the doorstep.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13As I say, my name is Pete Rance,
0:40:13 > 0:40:15I'm a Detective Sergeant with the Metropolitan Police.
0:40:15 > 0:40:17The reason I'm here
0:40:17 > 0:40:20is that the United States of America have made a request
0:40:20 > 0:40:22for your extradition in relation to some drugs matters.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Are you aware of that?
0:40:27 > 0:40:29Are you aware of that?
0:40:33 > 0:40:36I've got the warrant here, it is a warrant for the arrest
0:40:36 > 0:40:41of Mr Charles Culver, date of birth, 25/9/1986.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43OK? Because I suspect you are Charles Culver,
0:40:43 > 0:40:45I am obliged to arrest you on the warrant.
0:40:45 > 0:40:46You don't have to say anything,
0:40:46 > 0:40:48but anything you do say may be given in evidence.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50Do you understand? OK?
0:40:50 > 0:40:53It will be a lot easier, Charles, if we could just do this.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55You're not in trouble in the United Kingdom whatsoever.
0:40:55 > 0:40:56Can I get some socks and shoes on?
0:40:56 > 0:40:58Yeah, but I need to come with you.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00I've arrested you, so you will be with us at all times.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03I'll bring one of my colleagues with me, if that is OK.
0:41:03 > 0:41:07In the meantime, Jamie explains what will happen next.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10What's going to happen, we'll take you down to London this morning.
0:41:10 > 0:41:14Dane, listen to me, OK? We'll take you to London this morning, OK?
0:41:14 > 0:41:16We're going to book you into the police station,
0:41:16 > 0:41:18and then you are going to go to court, OK?
0:41:18 > 0:41:21What's going to happen in court, it's only an initial hearing.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24The judge will ask you if you want to go to America by consent
0:41:24 > 0:41:26to sort this matter out, OK?
0:41:26 > 0:41:28If you say yes,
0:41:28 > 0:41:29then in a number of days,
0:41:29 > 0:41:33it will be arranged for you to go back to America, OK?
0:41:33 > 0:41:38If you say no, it will be a long, drawn-out process, OK?
0:41:38 > 0:41:40Pete's team have done the double,
0:41:40 > 0:41:42and the wanted brothers are taken away into custody.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48All things considered,
0:41:48 > 0:41:51holding off yesterday was the right decision
0:41:51 > 0:41:55because we've managed to arrest both of the people
0:41:55 > 0:41:58that were wanted at the same time.
0:41:58 > 0:42:01If the brothers are extradited back to the US to stand trial
0:42:01 > 0:42:03and found guilty,
0:42:03 > 0:42:10they could face a maximum term of 25 years in prison without parole.
0:42:10 > 0:42:15While in custody, the brothers give their side of the story to Pete.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18The Culver brothers were doing it to raise money,
0:42:18 > 0:42:20according to their side of the events,
0:42:20 > 0:42:23for Charles Culver's medical treatment.
0:42:23 > 0:42:27So he was cultivating magic mushrooms to sell them
0:42:27 > 0:42:29to fund his medical insurance.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33That's the reason he's ended up getting arrested over here.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41In February, 2017,
0:42:41 > 0:42:42Charles and Dane Culver
0:42:42 > 0:42:46were extradited back to the USA to face trial.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49Wieslaw Lewicz,
0:42:49 > 0:42:52the man accused of fraud, is now being sent back to Poland.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58Serial paedophile Michael McCartney
0:42:58 > 0:43:01is now in prison serving a nine-year sentence for his offences.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05And in May 2016,
0:43:05 > 0:43:08drug traffickers Terence and Michael Earle
0:43:08 > 0:43:11were both sentenced to three years in prison.