A man has been arrested by detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s Paramilitary Crime Task Force (PCTF), following a planned stop and search operation in north Belfast on Wednesday, 1st July.
A large quantity of suspected drugs was also seized.
Officers were conducting a proactive policing operation yesterday in the Donegall Quay area in relation to the supply of Class A controlled drugs and signalled for a vehicle to stop. It did not stop and while attempting to leave, it collided with two police vehicles.
A subsequent search of the vehicle uncovered a large quantity of suspected Class A controlled drugs, which were then seized.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of possession of a Class A controlled drug, possession of a Class A controlled drug with intent to supply, providing money or property for the purposes of terrorism, failing to stop for police and driving without due care and attention.
Follow-up searches conducted in the Newtownabbey and Mallusk areas resulted in further suspected drugs being seized, along with a number of vehicles, with the total estimated street value of all drugs seized as a result of the searches £225,000.
