Police raided a house in Nantwich and recovered what is believed to be part of a cannabis farm.
Stunned residents looked on as police vehicles and a number of officers carried out the raid at a house on Rookery Close, Nantwich.
A man from Nantwich has been charged in connection with an investigation into human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
The 49-year-old man, of James Hall Street, Nantwich, is facing one count of human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, one count of money laundering and 14 counts of controlling women for prostitution.
Houses were raided and people arrested in Nantwich and Crewe today as part of a large investigation into human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Two people, a 49-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman, have been arrested in Nantwich and Crewe in connection with the investigation.
A Nantwich woman has been found guilty of fraudulently claiming more than £7,000 in benefits – when she had £16,000 savings stashed away.
Tracy Wrench, of Blagg Avenue, Nantwich, admitted fraudulently obtaining £7,067 in housing benefit, council tax benefit and council tax support.
A community scheme to tackle town centre crime in Crewe and Nantwich has scooped a top award.
‘Stamp crime out of town’ (Scoot), a business crime partnership operating across Crewe and Nantwich for 13 years, has been given a Safer Business Award ‘with distinction’.
A Nantwich police officer is to face a charge of common assault after an incident in the town centre, says the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
PC Matthew James Ambrose, based at Nantwich police station, has been summonsed to appear at Manchester City Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday May 27.
Nantwich residents are being urged to sniff out cannabis farms in the town – after £3 million of the drug were seized by Cheshire Police in just three months.
Detectives say organised criminal gangs are using premises across Cheshire to cultivate the drug in local communities.
Cheshire has recorded sixth largest fall in crime across England and Wales, latest figures show.
Statistics from Office of National Statistics (ONS) show crime is down by 3.9% in Cheshire – more than 2,000 fewer crime victims.
Raiders tried to drag a cashpoint machine out of a Nantwich store after ramming the front with a land rover.
The crooks attached a heavy-duty 20ft chain to the machine in the Stapeley Co-operative store on Cronkinson estate.
Nantwich Police say this year’s Nantwich Jazz Festival was staged successfully.
Just nine arrests were made during the festival which attracted around 20,000 people to the town.
A well-known ice cream maker in Cheshire has been fined for safety failings after a worker’s finger was cut off by a fruit feeder machine.
Tattenhall Dairy Products Ltd, which operates at Cheshire Farm Ice Cream, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after the incident at Drumlan Hall Farm in August 2013.
More than 400 suspects across Cheshire have been screened in custody as part of Operation Shield.
A total of 433 people, who have passed through Cheshire Police’s three custody suites, have been screened as part of the forensic property marking initiative.
Recorded rape cases against adults and children in Cheshire has risen to almost 300 a year, latest statistics show.
There were 175 recorded rape offences against adults in the county in 2013-14, according to the Rape Monitoring Group.
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