Michael Showers

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Michael Showers
Born	14 July 1945 (1945-07-14) (age 68) Liverpool, England
Occupation	Gangster

Michael Showers (born 14 July 1945^[1]) is a convicted drug dealer from Liverpool.^[2]^[3]^[4] As of 2010, he was arrested in Turkey by a joint operation by the Turkish Police and the British Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the drugs baron was reprimanded after being linked to alleged heroin smuggling.

Early life

Michael Showers was a self-proclaimed Toxteth community leader around the time of the 1981 Toxteth Riots.^{[citation needed]}

Operation Rain Man

Showers was famously jailed for 20 years in 1991 after attempting to negotiate a route for £2m worth of high-grade heroin to enter the UK. During the 1990s, his plot was thwarted by a police sting called "Operation Rain Man". The Toxteth Gangster was caught following the elaborate operation between British police and HM Customs and their counterparts on the Indian sub-continent led to the seizure of 12 kg of the drug.^{[citation needed]}

References

Persondata
Name	Showers, Michael
Alternative names
Short description	British mobster
Date of birth	14 July 1945
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Date of death
Place of death

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