Reuters July 17, 2013 - 02:19 By Clare Kane and Iciar Reinlein MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Tuesday they had arrested a Briton they described as one of Europe's top 10 most wanted criminals and had helped dismantle a transatlantic cocaine-smuggling ring. In a statement, police said Brian Charrington was taken into custody along with his son in the Mediterranean resort town of Alicante and that his girlfriend, who was not named, was arrested in Venezuela while organizing a cocaine shipment. Thirteen people in all were arrested in the two countries, accused of smuggling drugs into Spain for sale across Europe. "One of the arrested was Brian Colin Charrington, a long-time...
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