POLICE chiefs are on alert for a gangland power struggle when cocaine kingpin Curtis “Cocky” Warren is freed from prison this month.
Sources believe his associates “will be knocking on doors” over the unsolved murder of his former number two Colin Smith.
When Warren was jailed over a drugs conspiracy in 1997, his friend and business partner Smith took over the international cocaine empire he’d set up with Colombia’s Cali Cartel.
But Smith, inset, was murdered outside a gym in 2007. Police fear his suspected killers, believed to be in Dubai, could be targeted in revenge.
A police source close to the National Crime Agency said: “Warren’s been the subject of numerous top-level meetings.
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