article_snippet: An operation was launched last week to arrest one of the fugitives, suspected drugs trafficker Jayson McDonald, who is believed to have been living in Spain.
article_snippet: More than a dozen armed officers along with detectives from the Metropolitan Police carried out a dawn raid on a luxury villa in Coin near Malaga but Jayson McDonald was not found.
article_snippet: One of the latest to be found in Tenerife was drugs lord Stephen Blundell, 36, from Merseyside, who fled the UK before being sentenced for a £1 million heroin plot, the NCA said.
article_snippet: The exceptional level of collaboration and intelligence sharing with the Spanish authorities has been vital to Suspected drug dealers Paul Monk and Scott Hughes.
article_snippet: Infamous British criminals to have fled to the region included Great Train robber Charlie Wilson, who was shot dead in Marbella in 1990, and Freddie Foreman, an associate of the Kray twins.
article_snippet: Caught: Drug trafficker Christopher Mealey .
article_snippet: One of the operation's most high-profile arrests came last June when a British drug trafficker behind a £25 million a year cocaine ring was caught in Marbella.
article_snippet: Christopher Mealey, 38, was arrested by armed officers from the Spanish National Police as Christopher Mealey walked along the Paseo Maritimo, a Spanish beachfront tourist hotspot.