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Drugs bust seizes 11 kilos of cocaine worth £1.5million
12:49pm Friday 27th January 2012 in Bexley By Jim Palmer
Drugs bust seizes 11 kilos of cocaine worth £1.5million
A DRUGS bust saw eight people arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply more that £1.5m of cocaine.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Special Projects Team arrested eight people, including five from Bexley, Southward and Kingston and found around £30,000 in cash.
Three people were also arrested in Northampton, following what the police have described as a ‘proactive, intelligence-led surveillance operation’.
Eleven kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of £1.5million was seized along with £170,000 in cash from a haulage firm.
Detective Inspector Sarah Staff said: “Approximately 11 kilos of cocaine which was no doubt bound for London’s streets and beyond has been removed from circulation today.
"The seizure has disrupted a significant supply of cocaine and we hope that it will reinforce the message that the Met will continue to combat those criminal networks who intend on flooding the streets with class A drugs”.
