Dramatic police body cam footage has been released of the moment a British drugs kingpin was arrested – right after he had bought a loaf of bread.
Anthony Siner, 38, was the leader of one of the UK’s biggest criminal drug gangs called ‘Scouse Dave’ and was jailed with his brother, Brian, for a combined total of more than 33 years in January.
Their gang funnelled crack cocaine and heroin to the south coast of England from Liverpool through a ‘sophisticated’ network which operated like a ‘business’ trading for profit.
And new footage released by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary, shows cops snaring Anthony while he was sitting in his car in Southsea, Hampshire, with a loaf of Warburtons Toastie bread on his lap.
Alongside him, the body-worn camera footage shows Gary Cranney in the car, formerly an operational manager for ‘Scouse Dave’ who has since been jailed for seven years.
Anthony, the Organised Crime Group’s (OCG) leader received 17 years and seven months, while his brother Brian, known as ‘Big Show,’ was jailed for 15 years and nine months.
The footage was released by police as detectives ‘dismantled’ the 38 year old’s drugs line.
Hampshire Constabulary also released images of weapons and drugs discovered by detectives – as well as family-tree style image showing the gang’s hierarchy.
The drugs line was described by prosecutors as a ‘brand’ with the Siner brothers’ network so well-known in criminal circles that they were referred to simply as ‘the scousers’.
Spanning 550 miles, the operation transported drugs from Liverpool to Gosport, Hampshire and Plymouth, Devon.
Anthony is said to have oversaw the line into Gosport, while Brian ran the operation into Plymouth from his prison cell – where he was serving 14 years for similar drugs offences.
Between January 2022 and March 28, 2023, the network distributed at least 25kg of crack cocaine and heroin in Gosport and 9.6kg in Plymouth.
Police seized weapons and £30,000 in cash during the investigation, which was said to have exposed the Organised Crime Group’s exploitation of drug users to peddle the class A substances.
Four kilos of drugs were also seized.
A total of 17 people including the Siner brothers have since been prosecuted at Portsmouth Crown Court.
Four of the gang members were sentenced in January, seven this week, and six more await sentencing.
The 12 jailed so far have been put behind bars for a combined total of more than 74 years.
Judge Daniel Sawyer said as he sentenced the Siner brothers: ‘It’s sufficient to say this was a well organised and professional drug dealing network.
‘It involved the exploitation of vulnerable people, mainly drug users, who were made to sell drugs on your behalf.’
