{"id":644335,"date":"2025-12-20T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:59:22","slug":"lanarkshire-police-snatch-8-million-drug-haul-in-christmas-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644335\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanarkshire police snatch \u00a38 million drug haul in Christmas raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen people have been arrested and charged in total in connection with drugs offences following the raids.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_JS78314898.jpg\" alt=\"Fifteen people have been arrested and charged in total in connection with drugs offences following the raids.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Fifteen people have been arrested and charged in total in connection with drugs offences following the raids.(Image: Daily Record)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowlive.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Police Scotland Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Police Scotland <\/a>says it has seized almost \u00a314 million worth of drugs during the week ahead of Christmas, marking a record for such operations across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">One of the largest hauls of cocaine, worth more than \u00a38 million, was made when officers executed a warrant in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowlive.co.uk\/all-about\/lanarkshire\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Bellshill Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Bellshill <\/a>on December 11. Significant quantities of ecstasy, amphetamine and mephedrone were seized in Fraserburgh, to the value of \u00a33.5 million, on December 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In Perthshire, officers acting on intelligence recovered <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowlive.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"cocaineLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">cocaine<\/a> worth \u00a31.2 million on Thursday, from a property in the Dunning area. On December 14, \u00a3560,000 worth of cocaine was also discovered at a business premises in Bridge of Earn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Cocaine and cannabis, worth more than \u00a3500,000, was found in the loft in a property after a warrant was executed on Thursday in Lhanbryde, Elgin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Officers stopped a car on the M74 near Moffat on December 17, and a quantity of cocaine, estimated to be worth \u00a3175,000, was recovered from inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Fifteen people have been arrested and charged in total in connection with drugs offences following the raids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Assistant chief constable Stuart Houston said: \u201cThese significant seizures mark one of our most successful weeks for removing drugs from the streets of Scotland, and they will have a huge impact on the cocaine supply across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cPolicing does not stop just because it\u2019s Christmas time and we remain relentless in our fight against drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cControlled substances are dangerous and cause real harm to individuals, families and communities. Working closely with our partners, we remain focused on targeting individuals and organised crime groups, who selfishly exploit vulnerable people for their own financial gain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThis work also underlines our commitment to the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce and the country\u2019s Serious Organised Crime Strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cAction like this is only possible with the continued support of our communities. Anyone with information or concerns about drugs should contact Police Scotland on 101 or make a call anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen people have been arrested and charged in total in connection with drugs offences following the raids.Fifteen people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,14683,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-644335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-lanarkshire","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115752257060886015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644335","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=644335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}