Sussex Police Drug Arrests
SUSSEX Police Detectives, in Brighton, have led a series
of drugs raids resulting in 16 arrests and the seizure of £50,000 cash, together
with 6 kilos of heroin mixed with cutting agent, with an estimated potential
street value of £600.000. The raids took place on Tuesday, 24 March 2015, with
Officers from the Brighton based Organised Crime Team co-ordinating the raids,
with search warrants issued under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, at 9
addresses in Brighton, 1 in Eastbourne and 1 in Liverpool. During the searches,
which involved more than 100 police officers and staff, 3 safes were also found.
13 people (10 men and 3 women) were arrested in Brighton and Eastbourne on
suspicion of conspiracy to supply heroin, and 1 woman was arrested in Brighton
on suspicion of obstructing the Police.
2 of the men, aged 29 and 62, and 2 of the woman, aged 62 and 28, arrested on
suspicion of conspiracy in Brighton, have been interviewed and released on
Police Bail, until 13 May 2015.
India Williams, 23, of Langridge Drive, Portslade, has been charged with
obstructing Police and is due to appear, on bail, at Brighton Magistrates Court,
on 9 April 2015.
Nobody was arrested at the Liverpool address, but a man and a woman linked to
that address were arrested later the same day, in Preston and Morecambe, by
Lancashire Constabulary officers, also on suspicion of conspiracy to supply
heroin. They where then taken from Lancashire to Brighton on Wednesday, 25 March
2015, to be interviewed.
Detective Inspector Julie Wakeford of Sussex Police said:- "These arrests
follow a long term covert, intelligence, based investigation about organised
crime supplying heroin from Liverpool into Brighton and Eastbourne. We worked
very closely with Merseyside Police and also with Lancashire Constabulary. This
investigation is part of our continuing work aimed at disrupting the supply of
drugs, especially the most dangerous drugs such as heroin, on the streets of
Sussex."
