Wednesday 11 January 2012

Police Celebrate £1M-Plus Drug Seizure In Underground Car Park


Police smashed a huge cannabis-supply enterprise when seizing over £1 million worth of the drugs from a North London underground car park.

Last Monday a suspicious member of the public raised the alarm and officers confiscated 270 kilos of the drug in Crondall Street, Islington.

A 31 year-old man was arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs and taken to Hackney Police Station.

Police in Hackney borough have seized 270 kilos of cannabis with a street value of more than one million pounds.

The drugs were found in a lock-up, which contained herbal cannabis and cannabis resin wrapped in cling film in five large laundry holders, two holdalls and several shopping bags.

Police also seized a set of scales, a heat wrap machine an extra quantity of cling film and another block of resin in a nearby vehicle.

Detective Inspective Rhys Willis of Operation Bantam, said: “These drugs were clearly being stored to be divided up and sold on and this is a good seizure for Hackney police that has taken a substantial quantity of illegal substances off the streets.”

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