Spanish police say they have arrested a notorious suspected British drug dealer, Brian Charrington.
The 57-year-old is alleged to have run an international trafficking ring involving cocaine from Venezuela.
Charrington was detained at his luxury home on the Costa Blanca in a joint operation by UK and Spanish officers.
His girlfriend and son were also arrested along with 10 other people in Spain and Venezuela.
A police statement said Charrington was "one of the 10 criminals most investigated by European police and leader of an international drug-trafficking organisation".
The statement said officers seized 220kg (485lb) of cocaine hidden in an apartment in L'Albir near the tourist resort of Benidorm.
They also impounded property and bank accounts worth more than five million euros (£4.33m).
It is claimed Charrington, from Middlesbrough, and others smuggled tons of cocaine into Europe via an armada of yachts.
Charrington is said to have started as a car and drugs dealer in the 1980s and allegedly went on to build an international criminal empire.
He is the third suspected British drugs baron to be arrested in recent weeks.
On July 10, Kevin Hanley, who was wanted in connection with a multimillion-pound drug seizure, was caught in a sting operation in Athens.
Two days before, convicted drug trafficker Mark Lilley was caught hiding naked in a panic room in his luxury villa in Malaga.
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