{"id":496672,"date":"2025-10-13T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/496672\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:19:34","slug":"40kg-of-drugs-and-three-guns-found-as-police-surround-house-in-leafy-sheffield-street-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/496672\/","title":{"rendered":"40kg of drugs and three guns found as police surround house in leafy Sheffield street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have seized more than 40kg of Class A drugs in a huge overnight raid of two cars and one house in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/all-about\/sheffield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sheffield;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sheffield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A statement from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/all-about\/south-yorkshire-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:South Yorkshire Police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">South Yorkshire Police<\/a> confirmed officers searched two vehicles, one in Westwood New Road and another in Halifax Road at 7pm on Tuesday, October 7. A further search of a house in St Albans Road, Fulwood, was then conducted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Across the three searches, police seized more than 40kg of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Class A drugs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Class A drugs<\/a>, three firearms. Five people have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two men, aged 35 and 59, were arrested on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug and possession of a firearm offences. A 55-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs and possession of a firearm, while two further men, aged 26 and 34, were also arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesperon said: &#8220;At 7.05pm yesterday (Tuesday 7 October), officers reacting to intelligence conducted a search of two vehicles one on Westwood New Road, and one on Halifax Road Sheffield. Both vehicles were found to contain suspected Class A drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;A further search of a property led to the discovery of a substantial quantity of suspected Class A drugs and three firearms. More than 40kg of suspected Class A drugs were seized in total from the cars and the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Officers have arrested five people in connection with the incident. Two men, aged 35 and 59, were arrested on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug and possession of firearms offences. A 55-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs, and possession of firearms offences. Two men, aged 26 and 34 were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;All five suspects remain in police custody at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Get all the latest and breaking Sheffield news straight to your inbox by <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=11e3a255-9202-43b5-8471-cfbf02dcd578&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:signing up to our newsletter here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>signing up to our newsletter here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have seized more than 40kg of Class A drugs in a huge overnight raid of two cars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,100234,393,4884,163353,150889,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-496672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-class-a-drugs","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-halifax-road","13":"tag-possession-of-a-firearm","14":"tag-sheffield","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115368005705774802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496672","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=496672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}