Pietro Menga, a fighter as soon as signed to the UFC, acquired a 15 yr and 5-month jail sentence after he plead responsible to conspiracy to promote or switch prohibited weapons and conspiracy to provide cocaine, in response to a report from the Larger Manchester police.
The 37-year-old “Italian Stallion” as soon as stepped in as a short-notice alternative in opposition to Tim Elliott at UFC on FOX 26 again in 2017 however didn’t make weight and was launched with out ever combating for the UFC.
In accordance with the police report, “Menga got here to the eye of Larger Manchester Police in 2020 after the NCA infiltrated the as soon as encrypted messaging platform service, Encrochat. Specialist detectives in our Critical Organised Crime Group trawled via hundreds of nameless messages detailing drug offers, firearms gross sales, and assassination makes an attempt, cross referencing the sporadic private particulars which have been mentioned in and amongst the legal enterprise offers.
“After figuring out Menga via messages the place he overtly spoke about his girlfriend, his knee accidents from combating, and his house gymnasium, detectives have been in a position to piece collectively proof which demonstrated the nameless consumer was actually Menga.”
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