Daniel Kinahan Arrested: Drug Cartel Boss on the Run

0:00On April 17, Daniel Kanahan, the alleged boss of a major international drug cartel, just got arrested and Dubai after years on the run. Born in 1977 in Dublin, he's the oldest son of Christie Kanahan, who's fingered as the founder of their family crime network. Irish courts have long called him out as the top guy running drug and gun smuggling ops across Ireland, the UK, and Europe. That all heated up back in 2015 when his cartel clashed with the rival Hutch Gang, sparking a bloody feud that killed 18 people. Things peaked in 2016. When a Kanahan associate got gunned down at a boxing event, cops always figured Daniel was the real target. He bounced from Ireland right after, hitting Spain's Costa del Sol before landing in Dubai. The fallout kept piling on, with Kanahan dipping into boxing promotion, like trying to set up a Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua fight that fell apart amid the heat. By 2022, the US slapped sanctions on him, his dad and brother, and offered a $5 million

1:01reward for info leading to his capture. Irish police never let up, getting a fresh arrest warrant from Dublin's high court and shipping it to Dubai under their agreement. Local cops there ran heavy surveillance and nabbed him this week. Now Dubai's prosecutors are kicking off extradition steps, so this saw us far from over as the net titans on the whole operation.