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.
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.
Hotels and taxi firms in Nantwich are being contacted by Cheshire Police as part of a campaign to target Child Sex Exploitation (CSE).
Police say they want to raise awareness among hotel staff and taxi drivers of the key signs and behaviours associated with victims of CSE.
Police searching for Nantwich man John Iveson have issued a new appeal on the eighth anniversary of his disappearance.
Mr Iveson, 37, from Nantwich, was last seen on January 30 2007 by his family.
A 28-year-old pedestrian involved in a collision with a car late at night on Mill Street in Crewe has died.
The collision involved a Black Volkswagen Golf and happened shortly before midnight on Mill Street close to its junction with Union Street pn Saturday, December 27.
A drink driver was jailed for seven years today after she killed a dad as he walked home from a pub in Tarporley, near Nantwich.
Samantha Roberts, 25, was found guilty of death by careless driving after her car smashed into David Dutton and his son Gavin.
Almost 50 illegal weapons including rifles and pistols were handed in during a Cheshire Police two-week weapons amnesty.
In total, 46 weapons were handed over – with more than a quarter of them in Congleton, and two in Crewe and seven in Chester. No weapons were submitted in Nantwich.
Drink and drug drivers in and around Nantwich are being targeted by Cheshire Police’s Operation Blue Christmas.
Officers will be targeting suspected drink and drug drivers throughout December to reduce the number of fatal and serious collisions on the county’s roads.
Thirteen men arrested across Cheshire in a major operation targeting those involved in online child porn, have been bailed by police.
The arrests were made between 6.30am and 8am yesterday (November 26), after a police investigation and intelligence identified the suspects in Cheshire.
Police are trying to trace a man from Nantwich in connection with a robbery and serious assault in Crewe.
Patrick Joesph O’Connor was last known to live at an address in King Place, Nantwich.
Almost 60 drink drivers have been arrested in the Nantwich area in 2014, new figures show.
Cheshire Police say they have made 40 arrests in the town and 19 in the rural part of Nantwich Neighbourhhood Policing Unit.
Cheshire Police have vowed to crackdown on alcohol misuse in Nantwich and other towns as part of a week-long initiative.
Officers will be carrying out activities all week including licensing checks and compliance of alcohol exclusion zones.
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