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Lithuania trail led cops to illegal guns
TWO men have been jailed after police cracked a gun-running network linking Lithuania to Kentish Town.
Armed police swooped on a jeep containing a tartan holdall filled with deadly 9mm pistols, bullets and silencers in Herbert Street before arresting Anthony Magee, 44, from Burmarsh, Marsden Street, and Gerald Smith, 47, from, from Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead, at lunchtime on May 15 last year.
The bag, tracked by a joint operation between police and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, held 18 Baikal semi-automatic pistols and 748 rounds of ammunition- a hoard that could cause ‘devastation’, according to one of the officers involved.
A Lithuanian, Elvadus Chinga, 28, had been seen handing the holdall to Magee outside a café in St John’s Wood. He was later arrested at Dover as he attempted to leave the country.
At Blackfriars Crown Court on Friday, Smith was sentenced to a total of ten-and-a-half years jail after being found guilty of possessing firearms and ammunition. Chinga was sentenced to seven years after pleading guilty to the same offences.
Magee is remanded in custody and will be sentenced in March.
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