Essex News & Investigations

MORE than a quarter of the around 1,000 people arrested during the country's biggest ever crackdown on county lines drug dealing were...

MORE than 1,000 people were arrested during the country's biggest ever single operation against the menace of county lines drug dealing....

A REFUGEE who dodged deportation after he was released early from prison by mistake went on to become a county lines drugs boss, Essex...

A GOVERNMENT inquiry into how to tackle the growing menace of serious and organised crime, that is due to soon report its findings, is...

NEW powers intended to be used to sift out "dirty money" laundered in the UK by Russian oligarchs could be used to strip suspected county...

A DRUG dealer caught with cannabis, cocaine, a large hunting knife and criminal cash has been spared jail so he can go to university...

BUSTED: Drugs seized during today's raids (Met Police) TWENTY four people were arrested today as the Met Police cracked down on gangs and...

JAILED: But street dealer Rahman Hassan could be out of prison in under two years A WOMAN who hid two bags of drugs in an intimate area...

SOFT JUSTICE? Khan could be out in 18 months despite a year of organised crime (Met Police) A DRUG supply middleman from south-east...

RAIDS: Police up and down the country raided suspected county lines drug dens (NCA) NEARLY 600 members of suspected 'county lines' drug...