Narcotics (373)

Neighbours and shopkeepers came out of their homes and onto the street to congratulate police as they arrested five suspected drug dealers.

The support came as officers in Digbeth raided two commercial properties to seize a substantial quantity of drugs and arrest five men.

A cannabis factory containing around 500 cannabis plants has been discovered at an address in East Coker, Yeovil.

At 9.30am on Wednesday 10 March police officers executed a drugs warrant at the address in Moor Lane.

Officers searched the property and uncovered around 500 cannabis plants.

Police in Edinburgh discovered a cannabis cultivation with a potential estimated street value of around £56,000 during a raid on a flat in the Newington area of the Capital.

A quantity of herbal cannabis was recovered from the flat in Blacket Place, along with 260 cannabis plants, and associated growing equipment.

Police discovered a cannabis cultivation with a potential estimated value of around £140,000 during a raid on a property in Edinburgh yesterday (Wednesday).

Officers discovered the cultivation at around 11am, at an address in Clerwood Park, in the Clermiston area of the Capital.

Around 450 plants were recovered.

A cannabis factory was uncovered by police in a Blackpool property this morning (Tuesday 2 March).

Police officers made the discovery at the terraced house on Cornwall Avenue at around 9am after executing a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

431 plants were discovered in the property, spread out over the whole of the first floor and part of the attic.

Police and officials from the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency today executed search warrants in Bristol, confiscating £180,000 worth of counterfeit medicines as well as cannabis plants.

Officers from the Trinity Road safer stronger neighbourhood team supported their colleagues from the MHRA.

Police have seized a large quantity of a dangerous hallucinogenic drug following a search of a property in Stocksfield.

Acting on information received officers from the Total Policing Task Force executed a warrant at the house on Wednesday morning.

Officers seized a kilo of a drug believed to be Mescaline with an estimated potential street value of £20,000.

Fife police are appealing for the public's help following the break-in to a house in the Birch Grove area of Kelty, where potentially dangerous drugs were stolen.

Detective Sergeant Drummond, Cowdenbeath CID, said:

"We investigate every instance of this type of crime thoroughly.

A Cannabis factory was uncovered by police in a Blackpool industrial unit yesterday evening (Wednesday 24 February).

Police officers made the discovery at the unit on Back Ashburton Road just after 6pm following intelligence which suggested that drug related activity was taking place.

Officers from east Surrey Police are appealing for information after a substantial cannabis factory was found operating in Horley.

The owner of the large four-bedroom detached house in Ewelands, Langshott, contacted Surrey Police after he visited the property and discovered the established cannabis factory.

Officers from the Kirkburton Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) joined forces with Huddersfield South NPT on Saturday to execute a search warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at an address on Clayton West in Huddersfield.

The address was searched following information received from local residents.

Seven people have been arrested in a series of coordinated raids on cannabis farms in the north east.

Officers from Northumbria Police's Total Policing Task Force raided four addresses in South Tyneside and Gateshead as part of Operation Robot.

Officers from the Cleveland Police Organised Crime Unit carried out simultaneous strikes at two addresses in Middlesbrough.

The substantial haul of drugs were found after officers executed a warrant at a house on Kennedy Road, Weaste, on Thursday 11 February 2010.

A 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing class A and class B drugs and has been bailed until 5 March 2010 pending further inquiries.

Officers from the specialist priority crime team and tactical team executed the warrant at approximately 4.30pm on Saturday, February 6.

Various suspected stolen tractors with an estimated value of around £60,000, a container hiding a Land Rover Discovery and various vehicle parts estimated at £100,000 and other plant and gardening machinery was discovered.

Police in Bristol have seized another 850 cannabis plants in Bristol after acting on community intelligence.

Officers executed a warrant under the misuse of drugs act in Ash Road, Horfield at around 10.25am this morning (Thursday 11th February 2010).