(BBC) A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration by supplying small boats to people smugglers.
It follows an arrest in October as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into a criminal network.
Officers believe the group was involved in buying at least six vessels, which were then moved to France or Belgium.
Three of those boats were found back in England, having carried migrants across the Channel.
One was found in St Margaret’s Bay in Kent on 2 September, a day in which about 400 people reached the UK using small boats.
