Three arrested as crackdown on drugs in Bolton continues
Three individuals were arrested in Bolton during a coordinated police operation targeting drug-related crimes and anti-social behaviour. The operation involved multiple warrants executed simultaneously in the New Bury area, resulting in the recovery of various drugs, stolen vehicles, and electronic bikes. The Challenger Team, a partnership against serious and organised crime in Greater Manchester, led the operation.
Bolton police arrested three people and seized Class A, B and C drugs during dawn raids on four homes Thursday as part of a sustained crackdown on organised dealing and anti-social behaviour.
Teams from the Tactical Aid Unit, Drone Unit and Stolen Vehicle Examination Unit joined neighbourhood officers to hit addresses on Fairfield Road, Moorside Avenue, Parkfield Avenue and St Gregory’s in New Bury shortly after 7 a.m. Officers recovered a haul of illegal drugs, several stolen cars and multiple e-bikes, and took two men aged 30 and 50 and a woman in her 40s into custody on suspicion of drugs offences.
The simultaneous warrants were executed under Greater Manchester’s Challenger programme, a multi-agency task-force targeting the county’s most serious and organised criminals. PC Gregory, of the Bolton Challenger Team, said the raids showed police would “not stop until we get these offenders off our streets and into our custody cells where they belong.” He added: “We take drug dealing extremely seriously because we see firsthand the devastating effects these substances have - not only on individual users and their families, but on the wider Bolton community and Greater Manchester as a whole.”
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