A second man has died following a medical incident in North Devon believed to be linked to substance abuse in the area. At around 5pm on Friday evening, April 26, police and partner agencies became aware of what was locally thought to be an unusual batch ...
Release date: 28/04/2024
Police officers in Rural East Devon Sector have executed a number of drugs warrants recently as part of Operation Scorpion. This activity is part of the wider operation which is a collaboration between the police forces of the South West region - Avon and...
Release date: 20/03/2024
More than £800,000 worth of drugs and 267 weapons have been taken off the streets in the seventh iteration of an initiative designed to create a ‘ring of steel’ around the South West. A collaboration between police forces in Dorset, Devon & Cornwall, ...
Release date: 15/03/2024
South West police forces work with local communities to drive out drugs Residents across the South West are asked to report any drug-related activity and information to local police or the independent charity Crimestoppers, in an effort to tackle drug dea...
Release date: 05/03/2024
Members of an organised crime group who supplied heroin from Liverpool to Cornwall have been sentenced at Truro Crown Court today [1 March]. The group were sentenced to a total of 47 years by HHJ Judge Carr for being concerned in the supply of Class A dru...
Release date: 01/03/2024
Police have seized large amounts of Class B drugs following a raid in a remote location in Exminster. Specialist officers and neighbourhood policing teams executed the intelligence-led warrant yesterday, Wednesday 28 February, where they found a large can...
Release date: 29/02/2024
Members of an organised crime group responsible for trafficking heroin and cocaine with a street value of more than £380,000 from Liverpool to Plymouth have been jailed for a total of more than 56 years. The five men and two women either pleaded guilty or...
Release date: 02/02/2024
An Exeter man who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to supply cocaine and breaching a Serious Crime Prevention Order has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Richard Armitage, aged 42, of Littleway, Exeter, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspirac...
Release date: 26/01/2024
Members of an Organised Crime Group responsible for trafficking cocaine with a street value of more than £4 million from London into Devon have been jailed for 46 years and nine months. The eight men and one woman carried out 20 courier runs over nine mon...
Release date: 13/12/2023
Members of a drugs gang who trafficked £1.4million of Class A drugs from Merseyside into Devon and Cornwall have been jailed for a total of 86 years and two months. The 21 men and women were part of the organised crime group who trafficked cocaine and he...
Release date: 27/11/2023
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