South Gloucestershire police have carried out a series of drug raids as the culmination of a four-month operation. Officers arrested seven people and searched eight premises seizing suspected class A drugs believed to be heroin and cocaine as well as thousands of pounds in cash in the operation in Kingswood on Tuesday 14th June 2011. South Gloucestershire’s district commander, Chief
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Police arrested three men after seizing suspected cannabis plants and dried plant matter from an address in Crown Road Industrial Estate, Warmley on Wednesday 5th January 2011. Officers from the neighbourhood team searched the business premises at about 11am, recovering a dozen mature plants which if confirmed as cannabis would have an estimated street value of £9,000. Police also seized
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Police have seized around 50 suspected cannabis plants, with a potential street value up to £50,000, in a raid on a house in Yate. South Gloucestershire officers, supported by specialist firearms officers, searched the property on Thursday 2nd September. They recovered plants, hydroponic equipment and a BB gun, and arrested a 31-year-old man, who remains in police custody. The raid
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Thornbury police arrested a man in the early hours of Sunday 25th July 2010 after finding a quantity of suspected drugs in his car. As part of ‘Operation Relentless: keeping you safe this summer’, patrolling officers stopped and checked the car in Gillingstool just after midnight and found a quantity of white powder. A 35-year-old man from Gloucester arrested on
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Assets worth almost £35,000 are to be seized from a Stoke Gifford man convicted of drug dealing. In August 2009 the man admitted supplying cocaine and cannabis and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. On Friday February 05 2010 Bristol Crown Court ordered the confiscation of his realisable assets – £15,758 in cash seized from his home and two
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Two Patchway Neighbourhood Police Community Support Officers found a cannabis factory after responding to anonymous information. Pat Gardener and Rob Hendra went to Rodway Road on Wednesday November 25 2009 after reports that of suspicious behaviour at a house. They found a house which had been left insecure and went in to check the property. Inside, they found 50 cannabis
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South Gloucestershire police have seized suspected cannabis with an estimated street value of more than £300,000 in an operation in Wick. Officers from the district’s Proactive Team acted on information from the community to plan the operation under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Police and Crime Scene Investigation officers went to a rented house in an isolated area on Tuesday
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