{"id":331240,"date":"2025-08-09T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331240\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:55:20","slug":"two-charged-after-police-find-74000-of-drugs-in-car-following-stop-and-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331240\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged after police find \u00a374,000 of drugs in car following stop and search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two people have been charged after police found \u00a374,000 worth of cocaine and heroin in a car in the Hailesland Grove area of Edinburgh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at around 11.30am on Friday after officers executed a stop and search on a man who was found to be in possession of cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Further enquiries led police to a car which was parked nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Officers searched the vehicle and found large quantities of cocaine and heroin with an estimated street value of \u00a374,000.<\/p>\n<p>Two addresses in the Wester Hailes and Pilton areas of Edinburgh were also searched as part of the investigation and cash was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>A man and woman, both aged 21, were arrested and have now been charged in connection with drugs offences.<\/p>\n<p>They are due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant John Dunn said: \u201cWe work tirelessly to remove illegal drugs from communities every day and remain committed to disrupting the activities of those who supply drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot tackle this issue alone and would urge the public to continue supporting us in building intelligence about the possession and supply of drugs by contacting Police Scotland on <strong>101<\/strong> or anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been charged after police found \u00a374,000 worth of cocaine and heroin in a car in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-331240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115000333354697399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331240","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=331240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}