19 Arrested as police swoop in dawn raids across the city
A SUSPECTED drug dealer frantically tried to flush his mobile phone down the toilet as police stormed his flat.
The man – described as a “significant individual” in Edinburgh’s organised crime network – was one of 19 people arrested as police carried out one of their biggest co-ordinated crackdowns in the Capital in recent years.
Police in riot gear storm a flat early yesterday morning as part of the raids. Picture: TSPL
Yesterday’s dawn raids saw around 170 officers target homes and businesses across the Capital.
They seized £100,000 worth of heroin from a house in Niddrie as well as several “dealer quantities” in other properties.
A quarter kilo of cannabis was also recovered in the Southside, while cash amounting to £5000 was seized from several of the 22 homes targeted.
Eighteen people – 12 men and six women – will appear in court on Monday on drugs and gang-related...
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