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It is a sad but acknowledged truth based on fact and experience. However, that does not mean police officers will ever stop trying to clamp down on the practice which destroys so many lives. Over the past month, inroads have been made in catching those at the top of the gangs which exploit the vulnerable to fuel the trade. Forces across the UK boosted activity in the week from May 17 with 1,100 arrests and 33 guns and 219 knives among weapons seized and 80 drug dealing phone lines ident...

But between June and December 2019, the group were under the careful watch of the police, who made eight visits to the hides, accounting for 2.5kg of cocaine. They also observed members of the group make 30 visits to the hides, estimating the true scale over the months of surveillance to amount to around 5kg of cocaine. The court heard the group operated “relatively closely”to the source of drugs coming into the UK. All four defendants admitted conspiracy to supply a Class A drug. ...

Organised drugs gang who hid cocaine underground locked up for 30 years Four members of an organised crime group have been jailed for a total of 30 years and three months for selling drugs in north Essex. They processed the drugs at a house in Halstead, before putting them in glass jars and burying them in two rural locations in Colchester. They’d then retrieve them from the hiding places to process and sell on. Officers found 2.5kg of drugs with an estimated street value of up to £...

But between June and December 2019, the group were under the careful watch of the police, who made eight visits to the hides, accounting for 2.5kg of cocaine. They also observed members of the group make 30 visits to the hides, estimating the true scale over the months of surveillance to amount to around 5kg of cocaine. The court heard the group operated “relatively closely”to the source of drugs coming into the UK. All four defendants admitted conspiracy to supply a Class A drug. ...

Organised drugs gang who hid cocaine underground locked up for 30 years Four members of an organised crime group have been jailed for a total of 30 years and three months for selling drugs in north Essex. They processed the drugs at a house in Halstead, before putting them in glass jars and burying them in two rural locations in Colchester. They’d then retrieve them from the hiding places to process and sell on. Officers found 2.5kg of drugs with an estimated street value of up to £...