Liverpool drug gangland

12 Drug dealers have been arrested in a widespread crackdown on hard drugs.Officers yesterday seized about a kilo of amphetamine with an approximate street value of £4,000, a small amount of cannabis and £5,000-6,000 cash.The 12 men and women were picked up after 16 raids.They include one from Aughton, Lancs; three each from West Derby and Everton; two from Old Swan; two from Formby and one from Crosby.
The operation is the result of 18 months of work by the Force Crime Operations Unit.
The unit has in that time seized cocaine, heroin, amphetamine and cannabis with an estimated street value of £1m, two handguns with silencers and ammunition and £24,000 cash. also found 51 cannabis plants in a house on DingleVale in Dingle, and three people were arrested.