Weekend Herald

Johnny Cash arrested

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A Rochdale bouncer turned gangland enforcer for Ireland’s most notorious criminal cartel has been arrested in Spain. Johnny Morrissey, known as Johnny Cash, for the wads of bank notes he carried with him, is suspected of laundering more than €200 million ($335m) in the past 18 months for the Kinahan gang, a criminal network whose leadership have been in hiding from European and US authoritie­s. The 62-year-old, an Irish passport holder who grew up in Greater Manchester, was described as one of Europol’s “highvalue targets” after he was detained at his Costa del Sol home in a joint operation by the Spanish Civil Guard, Irish Garda and the US Drug Enforcemen­t Agency.

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