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Essex News & Investigations

Nearly 2,000 arrests as police target 'county lines' drug gangs over one week - what are they doing the rest of the year?
Criminal gangs who exploit children and vulnerable adults to supply drugs across the country were targeted last week in a national police...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 3


Boris promises the impossible - to 'cut off the head' of the illegal drugs trade over next decade
BORIS Johnson today vowed to do something no government has ever managed before - to stamp out "the scourge of drug crime and the...
By JON AUSTIN
Dec 5, 2021


COUNTY LINES CRACKDOWN: More than quarter of 1,000 arrested across country were in London
MORE than a quarter of the around 1,000 people arrested during the country's biggest ever crackdown on county lines drug dealing were...
By JON AUSTIN
Sep 25, 2020


COUNTY LINES CRACKDOWN: More than 1,000 arrested in a week from Scotland to Cornwall
MORE than 1,000 people were arrested during the country's biggest ever single operation against the menace of county lines drug dealing....
By JON AUSTIN
Sep 24, 2020


EXCLUSIVE: Refugee who dodged deportation after prison blunder went on to become county lines drugs
A REFUGEE who dodged deportation after he was released early from prison by mistake went on to become a county lines drugs boss, Essex...
By JON AUSTIN
Jul 6, 2020


EXCLUSIVE: Major Government review of tackling serious organised crime unlikely to look at issues of
A GOVERNMENT inquiry into how to tackle the growing menace of serious and organised crime, that is due to soon report its findings, is...
By JON AUSTIN
Mar 5, 2020


Police look to use unexplained wealth orders against drug gangs.. but are there already powers to se
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...
By JON AUSTIN
Jan 29, 2020


SOFT JUSTICE: Dealer found with drugs and knife spared jail to start university
A DRUG dealer caught with cannabis, cocaine, a large hunting knife and criminal cash has been spared jail so he can go to university...
By JON AUSTIN
Oct 5, 2019


Drugs and street gang crack down in Enfield sees 24 people arrested
BUSTED: Drugs seized during today's raids (Met Police) TWENTY four people were arrested today as the Met Police cracked down on gangs and...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 13, 2019


Essex Woman, 60, who stashed crack up her privates face jail for drug dealing
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...
By JON AUSTIN
Jun 10, 2019









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