The Law Today The Drug Files

  An operation targeting violent criminals linked to the supply of firearms and drugs resulted in 12 arrests on the morning of Wednesday, 14 April. The suspects, aged between 17 and 27, were identified following almost 18 months of investigation by the Met’s North West Basic Command Unit. Police also seized class A and B drugs, cash, drug distribution equipment and multiple mobile phones believed to have been used to organise illegal transactions from the addresses in Brent. Eleven men and one woman were arrested for a number of different violence and drug related offences, including being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.   The arrests form part of an investigation launched in 2019 initially designed to address local youth violence issues in northwest London. Detectives quickly uncovered the significant drivers behind the violence and acquisitive crime in the area - specifically the supply of Class A and B drugs. After gathering intelligence to identify the most dange...

  Officers investigating the exploitation of young and vulnerable individuals into county lines activity have carried out a series of early morning warrants on Tuesday, 20 April and arrested five people. A total of eight addresses were targeted simultaneously across London, Hampshire and Berkshire. Three men and two women, aged between 20 and 40 years old, have been arrested on suspicion of offences including conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and modern slavery. Searches of the addresses continue but officers have so far found a machete, Class B drugs and a rapier sword. The investigation was launched in January this year after officers identified a ring of people involved in widespread drug supply across the southeast of England through county lines. The early stages of the investigation led officers to believe young children and extremely vulnerable adults were being used to deal drugs along the county lines. They secured evidence to suggest these individuals were being held aga...