Police seize drugs, cash and phones after raid at a house in Newark
Nottinghamshire Police say they carried out the warrant on Thursday (March 23)
Nottinghamshire Police have carried out a warrant at a house this week - and found a plastic bag full of cannabis stuffed inside an oven.
Officers made the discovery at a house in Barnby Gate in Newark on Thursday (March 23) as members of the Newark and Sherwood Operation Reacher team searched it after forcing themselves into the property.
They carried out the planned raid earlier this week because they had received intelligence which suggested drug activity might have been taking place inside the house.
When they carried out their thorough search on Thursday, a bag containing cannabis buds was hidden in the oven.
That's not all that was seized by the force, though, with suspected Class A drugs, money, a number of mobile phones and 'drug paraphernalia' were also found.
PC Mike Weston, of Nottinghamshire Police’s Newark and Sherwood Operation Reacher team, said: “As a direct result of this operation, we were able to seize and destroy quantities of suspected Class A and B drugs.
“We don’t want those involved in potential drug activity operating in our communities, and we know that people living in these areas don’t want that either.
“This type of offending is a blight on society and brings nothing but trouble, which is precisely why we work so hard to identify this activity and to take these drugs away from our streets.
“Proactive warrants like the one used in this incident are one of the key tools we have at our disposal to do that, but they rely heavily on information we receive.
“With this in mind, we’d ask anyone who has any information that could assist our investigation following this discovery to call the police on 101, quoting incident 106 of 23 March 2023.”