{"id":203995,"date":"2025-06-22T02:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203995\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T02:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T02:07:12","slug":"dungannon-psni-seizes-420k-of-suspected-class-a-drugs-in-gorestown-road-raid-on-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203995\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungannon: PSNI seizes \u00a3420k\u00a0of suspected Class A drugs in\u00a0Gorestown Road raid on property"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph.<\/p>\n

The PSNI have seized an estimated \u00a3420,000 worth of suspected Class A drugs during a search operation in Dungannon.<\/p>\n

The raid was carried out on Friday evening (June 20), at a property on Gorestown Road in the Co Tyrone town, as part of an investigation by the PSNI\u2019s Organised Crime Branch under the Misuse of Drugs Act.<\/p>\n

Officers also recovered a sum of cash and drug paraphernalia, all of which have been taken for forensic examination.<\/p>\n

Two men, aged 39 and 24, were arrested at the scene on suspicion of multiple drug-related offences. They remain in police custody.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Stickland said the seizure was a significant step in tackling the harm caused by illegal drugs: \u201cAs a result of this excellent police work, a large quantity of suspected dangerous controlled drugs are now safely off our streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph.<\/p>\n

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He added that police efforts to disrupt the supply and misuse of illegal substances would continue, and urged anyone with relevant information to contact the PSNI via 101, report online at psni.police.uk\/makeareport, or reach out to Crimestoppers anonymously at 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) stock image. Picture: Aodhan Roberts\/Belfast Telegraph. The PSNI have seized an estimated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[5825,1144,1210,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-203995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-niamh-campbell","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-tyrone-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114724578606602570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203995","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=203995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}