20 charged and weapons seized in Blackpool drugs operation
Drugs recovered included 857 grams of heroin
Police have charged 20 people and seized weapons, drugs and cash following a major crackdown on Class A drug dealing in Blackpool and the Fylde.
As part of Operation Clash, officers carried out a series of raids in Blackpool, the Fylde and Bradford during the last week of July.
The searches uncovered a blank-firing firearm with ammunition, an axe, a machete, a gas-powered BB gun, and ninety-six bottles and canisters of nitrous oxide.
Drugs recovered included 857 grams of heroin, small amounts of cocaine and suspected amphetamine, and more than a kilo and a half of cannabis.
Police also seized £13,445 in cash.
Following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, twenty people – aged between fifteen and seventy-three – have been charged with conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin between February 2024 and February 2025.
They include:
- Lewis Feehan, 24, now of no fixed address
- Kassidy Kiernan, 24, of Cooper Close, Fleetwood
- Joshua Beck, 23, of no fixed address
- Elenor Hadgraft, 25, of Galway Close, Thornton-Cleveleys
- Daniel Johnson, 20, of Clifford Road, Blackpool
- May Burt, 23, of Boundary Place, Blackpool
- Maxi Watford-Stock, 19, of Fordway Avenue, Blackpool
- Joshua Purcell, 18, of Boundary Place, Blackpool
- A 16-year-old boy from Blackpool
- Harvey Brooks, 21, of no fixed address but previously of Broadgreen Close, Leyland
- James Howson, 24, of no fixed address, who has also been charged with acquire/use/possess criminal property
- Jack Hancock, 19, of no fixed address
- Jack Chetwyn, 20, of Deansgate, Crewe
- A 15-year-old boy from Leyland
- Brian Towler, 73, of Sunny Bank Avenue, Blackpool
- Peter Thompson, 38, of Knowle Avenue, Blackpool
- Michael Grant, 57, of no fixed address
- Shelly Lomax, 38, of Boothley Road, Blackpool, who is also charged with possession with intent to supply heroin
- Kieren Erfmann, 32, of Vine Street, Chorley
- Alan Adams, 55, of Ilford Road, Blackpool
Those charged have either already appeared at Lancaster Magistrates’ Court or will appear there this Friday, 15 August.