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DRUG related crime in Bradford rose by almost 20 per cent in the past 12 months to 2021, figures from West Yorkshire Police revealed. It was a year which saw a series of cannabis farms and trafficking networks dismantled - from the raid on a "large-scale" cannabis farm in Filey Street to seizing £1.3 million worth of cannabis plants in a week-long drugs bust in the Bradford East area. The most recent data shows that between September 2020 and December 2020, there was an 18 per cent incre...

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of a plot to supply Class A drugs after police search warrants in Holme Wood and Bierley. Yesterday, officers from Programme Precision and Bradford South NPT conducted a number of warrants in the Tong ward area. Officers attended an address on Broadstone Way, Holme Wood, and arrested a 38-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman on suspicion of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and Proceeds of Crime offences. A third arrest was made, a 19-year-o...

THREE people have been jailed for more than 28 years in relation to an operation led by West Yorkshire Police’s Programme Precision. The case began when drugs, two firearms, ammunition and a knife were seized by officers on Monday, May 18, 2020. Bradford Crown Court heard how two cars were stopped in the morning – with a pistol and ammunition found in a Skoda stopped on Cannon Street (Castleford) and a knife found in a Volkswagen that was stopped on Chantry Bridge, Wakefield.  A subs...

Police making inquiries in the Farcliffe Road area in connection with a drugs arrest POLICE are carrying out inquiries in the Farcliffe Road area, off Toller Lane, this afternoon after two men were arrested on drugs charges after their car was stopped in Bradford last night. Officers from Programme Precision arrested two males, seized what is believed to be a large quantity of Class A drugs and recovered cash in Bradford yesterday evening. A car was stopped on a road off of Whetley Hill ...

A gangland murderer has had a luxury apartment that was funded by a McMafia millionaire who boasted of his connection with Meghan Markle seized by police. Mohammed Nisar Khan - known as Meggy - is serving a life sentence for hunting down and deliberately running over father-of-three Amriz Iqbal as he crossed a road in 2018. Mr Iqbal suffered an unsurvivable injury when his head struck a tree after being flung into the air following the smash in Bradford Moor, West Yorkshire.  Khan mowed down M...

Richard Beech A FAILED businessman become the sixth and final member of an organised crime ring operating in Bradford to be put behind bars this month. Richard Beech was jailed for five years for laundering £5 million of drugs money for the gang.   He made frequent trips between his home in Manchester and West Yorkshire to collect and deliver large amounts of cash concealed in hidden compartments under the seats of his specially modified Range Rover. He was labelled the “cash conve...

Updated Friday, 18th December 2020, 3:31 pm The last of the group, Richard Beech, 46, of Urmston Lane in Manchester, was jailed today (Friday) at Bradford Crown Court for five years after he admitted possessing criminal property and transfer of criminal property to the value of £5m. Over 25kg of Class A drugs with a combined street value of up to £3m, four semi-automatic pistols (with 200 rounds of ammunition), four silencers and £300,000 in cash were also seized during the investigation b...

Cash seized during the police investigation Officers stopped an Audi A3 in the Girlington area of Bradford on Thursday, February 20, this year. Shah was the driver and 5kg of high purity cocaine, with a street value of up to £400,000, and £50,000 in cash was found. Further enquiries led the search team to another address where 11kg of cocaine and 3kg of heroin was found. Four guns and 50 rounds of ammunition were also found. Further enquiries led officers to stop two other vehicles in M...

Undercover operation in Barkerend area: Two jailed for drugs trafficking TWO men have been jailed as part of a large-scale drug dealing operation in Bradford. On November 26, Hamza Shakeel, 24, of Kimberley Street, Bakthyar Ali, 24, of Gladstone Street, pleaded guilty to drug offences - including the conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, conspiracy to supply Class B drugs and drugs trafficking. The operation Between February and July 2019, undercover officers bought Class A drugs from deal...

Mobusher Ahmed, from Dewsbury, was jailed for five years and six months for drugs and money laundering offences A KIRKLEES man who was caught with significant amounts of Class A drugs in his bedroom has been jailed for more than five years. Mobusher Ahmed, from Dewsbury, was sentenced to five years and six months at Leeds Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply Class A drugs including heroin and crack cocaine, and money laundering. Officers from ...