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A quantity of cannabis was discovered by officers in Roffey Street last week.
Blackwall and Cubitt Town Safer Neighbourhoods team raided the premises on January 6, and a 26-year-old was arrested for cannabis possession.
A DLR passenger was robbed at knifepoint by two men as he was leaving Poplar station.
The 37-year-old white male was making his way down the stairs at Castor Lane when he saw two males aged around 18 loitering at the bottom.
A 21-year-old woman was attacked and raped in Surrey Quays as she walked home early on New Year's Day.
The victim was attacked close to Toronto House, as she walked from Canada Water Underground station along Albion Channel, near Surrey Quays Road, between 6-6.45am.
A Greenwich businessman has been jailed and fined £274,000 for shipping class A drugs across the UK.
Mark Anthony Gard, 43, of Armitage Road, used a fleet of vans issued by a legitimate parcel delivery business to run a drug-delivery operation.
A teenager who was stabbed just yards from the Isle of Dogs police station has joined the chorus of voices calling for it to open later in the day.
Hanif Ali, 14, was "jumped" by a gang of ten youths as he got off the D7 bus on Manchester Road last month. The mob stabbed him in the stomach, severed two tendons in his wrist, and left him with further injuries to the head and arm.
By Steven Davies
A government backed programme which supports young victims of crime in Lewisham is to be rolled-out nationwide.
The justice minister, Bridget Prentice MP, announced at Lewisham Police Station Monday morning that £500,000 of government funding will be made available for other communities to establish similar schemes.
A pair of youths were taken to hospital with stabbing injuries after an incident between Cahir Street and Harbinger Road on Friday.
Officers were called to the scene following a report of "public disorder" involving between 20 and 30 people. A 17-year-old and 14-year old were treated for wounds that were "not life threatening". Police report the 17-year-old had been stabbed in the bottom.
Police have welcomed the conviction of a man who committed a "horrendous" sexual assault on a woman returning from Canary Wharf two years ago.
Alomgir Rouf, 21, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to four years in jail and will be on the sex offenders register for life following his conviction last week.
Magistrates have banned a man from Canary Wharf after reports of harassment and shoplifting.
Emam Hussain, 27, of Shadwell Gardens, is the first person person to be banned from the area under Anti-Social Behaviour legislation.
A row over allocated parking spaces led to a 59-year-old van driver being punched and kicked to the ground.
The incident took place at around 6pm on Saturday (January 17) when the victim attempted to park in an allocated space in Wapping's West Gardens.
Officers swooped on a property in Plimsoll Close as part of a council-funded drugs blitz.
A small amount of herbal cannabis, 60g of cocaine and various drug paraphernalia was seized in the raid, which was executed by East India and Lansbury Safer Neighbourhoods Team on December 9.
A Canary Wharf commuter was the victim of a sexual assault as she travelled to work earlier this month.
The 30-year-old woman was travelling on an eastbound Jubilee line train at around 8.10am on Thursday, November 6, when a man indecently touched her as the train approached Canary Wharf.
AN ELDERLY woman has been stabbed to death in a house in the Isle of Dogs.
The 70-year-old was found dead at an address in Byng Street late on Tuesday night. Four people have since been arrested in connection with the attack.
Police officers and London Ambulance Service crews flocked to the scene at 10.30pm, but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Three men and one woman are being held in custody at separate East London and City of London police stations.
MURDERED club-goer Curtis Smith was gunned down just hours before he was due to celebrate his first wedding anniversary.
The West London carer, 36, was visiting Club Red in Cable Street with a wheelchair-bound man when he was shot early on Sunday. He was working night shifts to pay for a new home. His wife Sara issued an appeal on Friday for any information on the murder of her husband.
THE SHOOTING of a clubber outside a Limehouse nightclub has sparked calls for increased police patrols around the area’s late-night haunts.
West Londoner Curtis Smith became the 90th person to be murdered in London this year when he was gunned down outside Cable Street’s Club Red in the early hours of Sunday morning. Carer Andrew Denty, 29, from Waterloo will appear before Thames Magistrates next week charged with the murder.
POLICE have arrested a man following a fatal shooting outside a Limehouse nightclub.
The man, who is in his twenties, remains in custody following the murder of a 35-year-old West London man outside Club Red in Cable Street, in the early hours of Sunday, July 27.
The victim, who is believed to have been at the club with friends, was shot in the head and neck as he left the premises.
Police were called to reports of a shooting at 3.45am.
The victim was later pronounced dead at the scene.
A CONVICTED rapist will be deported to Bangladesh after serving an eight-year sentence.
Poplar resident Abdul Aziz was jailed for his attack on a 19-year-old girl in Blair Street on August 3 last year. The 26-year-old was found guilty of raping the woman outside her home soon after she had said goodnight to her boyfriend.
The victim had walked from All Saints DLR with him, and continued to walk along East India Dock Road after leaving him at his home address.
She told officers she was approached at the junction of Chrisp Street by Aziz, who asked her for a lighter. He then tried to engage her in conversation and followed her along East India Dock Road. As she was about to enter a block of housing just after 10pm the man pushed her into some bushes and threatened to kill her before launching the sex attack.
THE FAMILY of a murdered Isle of Dogs man have made an emotional plea to help bring their son’s killers to justice.
Police are offering a £20,000 reward for information on the stabbing of Darren Sherman in Manchester Road five years ago tomorrow (March 7).
Darren’s parents Rosemarie Belle and James Sherman marked the anniversary by issuing an appeal to anyone who can help close the investigation.
Rosemarie said: “It’s been five years since Darren was taken from us, and we still don’t know what happened to our son. I just want some closure on this now.�
