Police have seized a quantity of drugs after carrying out a warrant at a shop on Coppice Road in Arnold.
The shop was one of three properties targeted by police simultaneously in raids this morning (27).
Prompted by intelligence suggesting they were linked to drugs supply, police descended on the addresses just before 9am.
Properties in Arnold Road in Bestwood and Northwood Crescent, in Sherwood were targeted at the same time as the Coppice Road shop.
Drills and battering rams were used to get through the front doors of the homes, while entry was forced through the shop’s metal shutters.
Boxes of pharmaceutical Class C drugs, including Zopiclone and a range of steroids, were among the items recovered from the shop.
More suspected Class C drugs were meanwhile also found in Arnold Road and Northwood Crescent. A mirror inside Northwood Crescent was seen to be covering a hidden door, which led to an adjoining room with a ladder After climbing up that, the officers came across a substantial cannabis grow in a loft area, which was subsequently dismantled by police.
Each of the three warrants were coordinated by the City North Neighbourhood Policing team, with the support of officers from Gedling Neighbourhood Police team.
And following today’s activity, the message from the officers was that they will continue to target anyone suspected of being involved in drugs supply.
“This morning’s simultaneous warrants came as part of an investigation into the supply of the Class C drug Zopiclone,” said Sergeant Ash Small from Nottinghamshire Police.
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“We acted on intelligence we received suggesting these three properties could be involved, which ultimately led to us recovering quantities of the drug and other substances too.
“Searches of one of these addresses also helped uncover a cannabis grow that was found behind a hidden door, so it was a really pleasing result all-round.
“I’d add though that it’s much harder for us to execute warrants like the ones today without intelligence of illegal activity being provided by the community.
“Targeting those who are causing harm in the community with the onward supply of drugs is what we want to be doing and it’s certainly what we should be doing as well.
“As today has shown, community intelligence is vital for helping us do that, so we’d encourage people to continue reporting their suspicions to us, so that we can do something about it.”
Any information relating to criminality in your area can be reported to your neighbourhood policing team by calling 101 or contacting Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
