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 accordance with a report from the Higher Manchester police.
The 37-year-old “Italian Stallion” as soon as stepped in as a short-notice substitute in opposition to Tim Elliott at UFC on FOX 26 again in 2017 however did not make weight and was launched with out ever preventing for the UFC.
Based on the police report, “Menga got here to the eye of Higher 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 by 1000’s of nameless messages detailing drug offers, firearms gross sales, and assassination makes an attempt, cross referencing the sporadic private particulars which had been mentioned in and amongst the felony enterprise offers.
“After figuring out Menga by messages the place he brazenly spoke about his girlfriend, his knee accidents from preventing, and his residence gymnasium, detectives had been capable of piece collectively proof which demonstrated the nameless consumer was in truth Menga.”
