Routine Traffic Stop Uncovers Drugs Worth More Than £150K
A man has pleaded guilty after a routine traffic stop in Holyland Road, Pembroke led to the discovery of Class A and Class B drugs worth more than £150,000. On the morning of Friday, January 2, a local Road Policing…
Llanelli Man Nicknamed ‘Hillbilly’ Jailed After Police Find Secret Drugs Stash in Llanelli Lockup
A Llanelli man nicknamed “Hillbilly” has been jailed for three years and ordered to hand over £46,000 in drug money after police caught him hiding cocaine and cannabis in a storage locker. Matthew Davies, of Dwyfor, Llanelli, was arrested following…
Police discover over £10,000 worth of cocaine following successful Llanelli drugs raid
Officers have taken more than £10,000 worth of cocaine off the streets following a successful drugs warrant at a Llanelli home. Andrew Kane Rees, aged 25, has been charged with possession with intent to supply class A and B drugs,…
Llanelli man pleads guilty following discovery of cannabis farm at disused retail property
A Llanelli man has pleaded guilty before the courts just one day after officers found 350 cannabis plants at a disused retail property in Llanelli. Pllumb Krosi, aged 34, was arrested on Wednesday 30 April after officers from Carmarthenshire’s Priority…
Cannabis plants worth more than £860,000 seized from properties in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Powys
Cannabis plants worth more than £860,000 have been seized from properties in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Powys in just one week as police continue their crackdown on industrial scale drug production. Dyfed-Powys Police took part in Operation Mille 3 – a…
Dyfed-Powys Police’s biggest drugs operation takes £12 million of cannabis out of the supply chain
Police teams tackling the threat presented by industrial scale cannabis farms have taken more than £12 million worth of cannabis out of the supply chain. Raiding buildings from former schools and empty town centre shops to a disused newspaper office,…
Conwy children at risk from ‘Class A’ street drugs
Children in Conwy are being put at risk from street drugs such as ketamine, warns an outspoken councillor following a damning youth justice inspection. Cllr Paul Luckock has now been kicked out of Conwy’s First Independent Group after upsetting members…
Police investigate significant quantity of cocaine washed up on Welsh coastline
Dyfed-Powys Police are investigating the discovery of a significant quantity of what is thought to be cocaine, spotted along the Ceredigion coast this weekend. Enquiries are being undertaken to establish how such an unusually large amount of the controlled drug…
Five arrested in New Road ‘drugs bust’
FIVE people have been arrested and police have seized a large quantity of drugs following a drugs raid on a property in Llanelli. In a statement Dyfed-Powys Police said: “A misuse of drugs act warrant was carried out at a…
Rhondda man who made crack from cocaine jailed for nearly five years
A stop and search in Rhondda led to the seizure of over £30,000 worth of class A drugs in January (2019). The drugs were discovered at a house in Elm Wood Drive, Tonyrefail, which was searched by police after they…