Results tagged “drugs”

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 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.

Police have raided an Isle of Dogs address as part of an investigation into prostitution and drug use at a lap dancing club.

Following a six-month operation codenamed Vermillion, officers raided the Goodge Street Capricorn Club and eight London and Essex addresses. They made seven arrests.

Residents of an Isle of Dogs estate have won a small victory over drug use under their noses.

Occupants of New Union Wharf have complained of persistent drug problems on the estate for several months, with youths dealing and smoking cannabis outside and from an untaxed car.

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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.

Report by Harry Low

POLICE have recovered around £45,000 worth of heroin in a raid on a Millharbour property.

Officers seized around a kilogram of the drug as well as bundles of money totalling more than £50,000 in one of the biggest heroin busts recorded in the borough.