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Homes raided in drugs crackdown

PC Louisa Adcock among the cannabis plants found in Maw Street.

HUNDREDS of police officers today took part in early morning raids in a huge nationwide crackdown on an international crack cocaine ring.

Houses and flats across the country, including some in the West Midlands, were carried out between 3am and 6am.

The raids were part of an operation to smash a network smuggling drugs into the UK from Jamaica and ferrying it between London and Middlesbrough.

It is understood that no one was arrested in the West Midlands' swoops.

Det Insp Dave Lamplough, of Cleveland Police which led the operation, said: "We have the information we need to target key people.

"We are taking out the whole network."

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