Thirty-four people were arrested and weapons, cash and illegal drugs seized during a county lines week of action in Cheshire.
The crackdown was part of a National Crime Agency initiative to disrupt and protect communities from serious and organised crime in Cheshire.
Cheshire Police arrested 227 county drivers during its festive crackdown on drink or drug driving.
Among those were 25 people in Crewe and Nantwich area arrested for driving under influence of drugs – the highest of any area of the county, and a rise on previous years.
A man found in a taxi in Willaston near Nantwich with £900 worth of Class A drugs in his underpants, has been jailed.
Lee Marr, 29, from Liverpool, appeared at Chester Crown Court where he was jailed for more than five years after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.
Four people have appeared at Crewe Magistrates charged in connection with a £20 million drugs haul found in vehicle on the M6 in Cheshire.
Three men and one woman, all from Warrington area, have been remanded in custody to appear at Chester Crown Court on August 31.
A massive haul of Class A drugs worth around £20 million has been seized in Cheshire, police have revealed.
Officers stopped two vehicles between Junction 19 and 20 on the M6 northbound in Cheshire.
A man has been charged with drugs offences following a proactive drugs operation in Willaston, Nantwich, say Cheshire Police.
Lee Marr, 29, from Liverpool, was arrested at 2pm yesterday (July 31) after officers from Crewe Local Policing Unit stopped a taxi on Wistaston Road.
Police have vowed to tackle drugs activity in an area of Nantwich after finding a 15-year-old girl in possession of cannabis.
Residents reported seeing teenagers selling and using drugs around the sandbank area in front of the riverside properties near Mill Island.
Nantwich town centre residents are fighting plans for a Craft Ale Bar on Castle Street, claiming the area is already a magnet for drug users and trouble makers.
A licensing application to open premises next to The Studio has been submitted to Cheshire East Council by Peter Terry.
An organised crime gang from Crewe and Wistaston involved in the supply of cocaine has been jailed for almost 65 years.
The 13 men were members of a gang who had been flooding the streets of Crewe with the drug.
Two people have been arrested after police seized drugs during a search of a Wistaston house.
Officers who searched a house on Beech Drive after executing a warrant, seized a quantity of Class B drugs and cash.
The number of people arrested for drink driving over Christmas has almost doubled in Crewe an Nantwich area.
Shocking figures from Cheshire Police today more than 250 people were nabbed across the county for allegedly drink and drug driving in December.
An organised crime gang responsible for the large scale supply of Class A drugs in South Cheshire, has been jailed for 19 years.
David Probin, 28, Christopher Flowers, 28, James Entwistle, 26, Shannon O’Neill, 20, Joseph Cottle, 21, and Bernard Dutton, 55, were jailed after being charged with conspiracy to Supply Class A Drugs.
Police chiefs claim South Cheshire’s streets are now a safer place after a crime gang involved in supplying Class A drugs was jailed for nearly 35 years.
Nine men and one woman were all arrested following a series of dawn raids across South Cheshire, Manchester and Staffordshire in 2014.
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