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ONE of the UK’s Most Wanted criminals has been arrested trying to enter Morocco from Spain.

Nana Oppong, 42, was snared by Moroccan cops after a warning went out on Interpol.

Oppong had been wanted by Essex police over the drive-by shooting of 50-year-old grandfather Robert Powell in 2020.

He was arrested using false documents by officers from the DGSN –Morocco’s General Directorate for National Security.

Most Wanted snared trying to cross the Straits

By Anthony Piovesan

Oppong, who had been living in Spain for at least a year, remains in custody as extradition proceedings are underway. He was one of 13 criminals sought in a Crimestoppers Most Wanted appeal last year and would have been included on another recent appeal a fortnight ago.

The final seven, still believed to be hiding in Spain, include heavily-tattooed and often armed Jack Mayle, 31, wanted on suspicion of drugs smuggling. Mayle, from London, had a tattooed neck, a diamond tattoo under his left eye and 'Croydon' inked on his left forearm.

Others wanted for cocaine smuggling include Welshmen, Asim Naveed, 31, who is 6ft 2in tall, and Calvin Parris, 33, who has gold teeth.

John James Jones, 32, of Lancashire, is wanted for wounding with intent. He stayed at a hotel in Madrid the night after the stabbings, but left in a hurry the next morning.

Callum Michael Allan, 24, of South Shields, is wanted for 12 alleged offences, while Mark Francis Roberts, 29, of Liverpool, is wanted for alleged grievous bodily harm. Finally Alex Male, 30, of Westonsuper-Mare, is alleged to be a regional distributor of drugs across the south west of England. Email newsdesk@theolivepress.es if you have seen any of them.

A PAIR of armed thieves who netted just €300 from four same-day robberies have been jailed for 14 years each.

The men - who both had criminal records for similar crimes - struck in Santa Maria, Llubi, and Palma.

Judges heard that they stole a van in Muro on April 29, and the following morning threatened a female shop assistant at a tobacconist with a knife and gun.

She refused to hand over any money and they ran off when a customer entered the store. Half-an-hour later they held up a pharmacy in Santa Maria and produced the knife to demand money from two workers. They took the cash register containing €300 and fled. The men struck again in the afternoon, stealing an empty cash till from a Santa Maria tobacconist, before holding up a Palma supermarket at around 7pm. That robbery did not go as planned with one of the men arrested at the scene, with his colleague apprehended a few days later.

Totally smashed

A MAN has been arrested for smashing a glass bottle in a rival’s face when he refused to buy him a drink.

The victim arrived at a nightclub with a friend in Palma’s La Soledad district in the early hours and greeted his attacker, whom he already knew.

The assailant responded aggressively, demanding that the victim buy him a drink. When the victim refused, the assailant reacted by bottling him.

The suspect, a 42-year-old Moroccan national, escaped the scene but a witness spotted him at another nightclub and called police.