Career
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. Michael Showers was a self-proclaimed Toxteth community leader around the time of the 1981 Toxteth Riots. 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 United Kingdom. During the 1990s, his plot was thwarted by a police sting called "".
The Toxteth Gangster was caught following the elaborate operation between British police and Her Majesty Customs and their counterparts on the Indian sub-continent led to the seizure of 12 kg of the drug.
