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How a single text message exposed a major Newport crime boss

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27.10.2025

The BBC documentary Catching a Crime Boss, available on BBC iPlayer as part of the Crimewatch Caught series, dives into one of Gwent Police’s most complex and far-reaching drug investigations, Operation Mayland.

What begins with a single text message between two dealers in Merthyr Tydfil unravels into a multi-million-pound drug network spanning South Wales and beyond.

The film follows detectives, surveillance teams, and covert officers as they painstakingly track Robert Andrews, a seemingly ordinary father of three from Newport, who was secretly running a major cocaine and heroin operation. As one officer describes, Andrews was........

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