Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> said he was arrested in connection with a separate investigation at a property in Weston-super-Mare in December 2025.<\/p>\nWhile searching the property and vehicle, officers found 143 grams of crack cocaine, 72.5 grams of heroin, and about \u00a37,500 in cash.<\/p>\n
In February 2026, he was arrested again at a property in Portishead, where officers found 40 grams of cocaine.<\/p>\n
Investigating officer PC Leon Brueford said: \u201cDrug-dealers like Karl Burchell cause untold misery in our communities and we hope this result sends out a clear message that we\u2019ll continue to disrupt this type of offending and pursue charges so those responsible can be brought to justice for their crimes.<\/p>\n\u201cWe hope this outcome shows that tackling drug-dealing and linked offences remains a priority for the police and information supplied by the public helps us build up a clear picture of where offences are taking place so we can plan and carry out proactive operations to arrest those responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said: “You can find out more information on how to report drug-dealing and other drug-related offences here: Report drug dealing and use | Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> \u2013 you can also report information through 101 or by visiting one of our enquiry offices.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDrug-dealers like Karl Burchell cause untold misery in our communities” Karl Burchell.(Image: Avon and Somerset Police) A drug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1091997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,30,393,4884,11945,16,15,11158],"class_list":["post-1091996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-courts","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-portishead","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-weston-super-mare"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116927438931676329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1091997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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