URBAN SMUGGLER

Urban Smuggler chronicles the riveting life story of one of the mostprolific smugglers of our time.After leaving school at 14, Andrew Pritchard started out selling weed and organizinghouse parties before moving on to run some of the biggest warehouse raves ofthe acid-house era. The money began to roll in, but with it came trouble,and when someone was murdered at one of his parties he was forced to go onthe run to Jamaica.It was there that Pritchard learned the tricks of the serious smugglingtrade, and with corrupt UK Customs officers in his pocket it seemed thatnothing could go wrong. But then someone in his network used his supplychain to start shifting industrial amounts of cocaine.When he went to meet a shipment of moody cigars, he was seized by aCustoms task force and arrested when the goods turned out to be half a tonof premium-grade cocaine. Following two controversial trials, Pritchard wasacquitted after seventeen months on remand.In Urban Smuggler, he reveals just how easy it can be to import shiploads ofcontraband into the UK and exposes the corruption within the law-enforcementagencies tasked to tackle this kind of crime. Here, then, is the insidestory of how he became an urban smuggler.

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: gosiewski

Length: 02:29
Rating: 3.40
Views: 2521

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