Proactive Vehicle Stop

Earlier this week, Officers from our Patrol and Town Centre Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) stopped a vehicle heading into the town centre and let’s just say things quickly went downhill for the occupants.

With the help of our Special's and after a positive drugs search, a man and woman were arrested on suspicion of drug supply offences. To make matters worse for the driver, he didn’t have insurance, so his car was swiftly removed from the road.

It transpired the driver was already wanted by Police in Northern Ireland for drug supply offences and had been dodging Immigration Compliance & Enforcement (ICE) for 2 years. Talk about drawing the short straw.

Searches at two further addresses uncovered more class A and B drugs, along with a rather ambitious residential Cannabis grow housing 155 plants.

Thanks to the tireless work of our Serious and Organised Crime (SOC) Team, the man was identified as a suspect in another ongoing investigation involving a substantial amount of drugs and therefore charged with 7 offences.

Police require support from the public to help tackle community problems throughout our borough, therefore we urge members of the public with information relating to any criminal activity to contact us via our website: https://www.warwickshire.police.uk/ro/report/ or by calling 101.

You can also report anonymously to the independent charity Crimestoppers: 0800 555 111.