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Hertfordshire Teen Gets Six Years for Weapons and Drug Offences After US Gun Intercept

The case shows joint UK-US policing stopping attempts to arm a drug operation.

Overview

  • Nikolli, 19, was sentenced Monday at St Albans Crown Court to six years and three months for producing and supplying cannabis and multiple firearms offences.
  • Homeland Security intercepted a parcel billed as a canine training kit that hid a 9mm blank‑firing handgun, and the UK Organised Crime Partnership arrested him on April 10 outside a family home in Potters Bar.
  • Searches uncovered three antique guns that had been converted to fire modern ammunition along with tools and live and spent rounds, with later searches finding more ammunition and a notebook on weapon conversion.
  • Detectives also found a cannabis grow with a large tent, dealer bags, scales, cannabis stored in a kitchen freezer, and seeds in a fridge.
  • He pleaded guilty in January, and prosecutors said videos from his device showed guns being test‑fired in public spaces that posed a clear risk to the community.