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DRUG suppliers are using "cleanskin" adults to deliver their goods in the hope it will lead to less detections by police, it has emerged. Adults with no criminal past are offered regular well-paid shifts with expenses covered inthe hopeitwill lure them into being illegal delivery drivers to drug users. Details emerged during the prosecution of Claire Young, a woman, who said she was "buzzing" to work part time "shifts" as a drug courier, instead of a standard job. She avoided

A "MANAGER" in a county lines drugs gang that peddled crack cocaine and heroin between Liverpool into Gosport and Plymouth has been jailed for six years and nine months. Danny Venning, 39, (pictured above) of Beatrice Avenue, Lipson, Plymouth, was jailed when he appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court, as the last member of the gang to be sentenced after the group was dismantled following an investigation by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary’s Northern Area Serious & Organise

FRANCIS Coggins' son Francis Parker is being hunted by police as one of the last key members of the Huyton Firm who remain at large. Police have appealed for the public's help to find Parker, 40, following the jailing of his father on Thursday, November 27 2025, and believe he is in Holland or Spain. Detective Chief Inspector Dave Worthington said: “While Francis Coggins ’ sentencing represents the dismantling of the group’s leadership, one individual, Francis Parker, 40, fro

A Bord er Force officer has been charged with conspiring to import class A drugs following an investigation by the National Crime Agency. Syed Shah, 39, of Hodge Hill, Birmingham was arrested by NCA officers on Friday 24 October at Birmingham Airport after the discovery of 25kgs of heroin in the suitcase of Zahida Perveen, aged 67, from Openshaw, Manchester. She was arrested shortly after arriving into Birmingham Airport on a flight from Pakistan. A third individual, Shahid B

A MAN was arrested on suspicion of drug supply in Maldon High Street. Essex Police officers carried out a full search of a silver vehicle at the lower end of the high street, near the junction with Victoria Road, on Wednesday, October 15 2025. Onlookers reported seeing items pulled from the car, including a child seat, and the bonnet pulled up, while a young man was questioned, just before 3pm. An Essex Police spokesperson said: "Officers from the Chelmsford and Maldon Local

Ketamine worth millions has been taken off UK streets after officers stopped a van that was found to be filled with sacks of the drug....

A CORONER has called for the government to consider reclassifying Ketamine as a class A drug following the death of a "one in a million"...

A DRUG dealer had hidden supplies of cocaine found concealed within the steering column of a moped he was riding. K een-eyed police...

Criminal gangs who exploit children and vulnerable adults to supply drugs across the country were targeted last week in a national police...

Cocaine with a street value of almost £100 million has been seized by Border Force in one of the largest drugs busts of the past decade....