£25m worth of drugs found in freezer after tyre fitting firm police raid

Police have arrested five people after the
discovery of drugs with an estimated street value
of about £25 million - most of it at a flat.
The drugs, believed to be mephadrone and
amphetamine, were found within a ground floor
flat in Liverpool yesterday.
Detectives from ‘Titan’, the north-west’s regional
organised crime unit, had gone to the flat after a
discovery of drugs earlier in the day at a tyre
fitting centre in Huyton.
Merseyside Police patrols had followed a Ford
Fiesta car and its occupant left the vehicle and
went into a tyre fitting yard on an industrial unit.
Officers detained three men inside and recovered
a quantity of suspected drugs, reports the
Liverpool Echo .
Another man was arrested close by and a fifth man
was later arrested in the Kirkdale area. Further
suspected drugs were found in the Ford Fiesta.
Some of the suspected drugs were also hidden
within a tyre that was in the process of being
refitted to a wheel rim.

Officers have seized from those premises drugs ,

believed to be 8kg (24,000 tablets) of ecstasy, 4kg

of amphetamines and an estimated 1kg of cocaine.

Later enquiries led Titan detectives to the flat in

Garston where an estimated 150kg of what is

believed to be amphetamines and mephadrone were

found.

All five people have been arrested on suspicion of

conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs and are

being held at police stations across the North-

west. The drugs have been seized by the police for

further examinations.

The five people arrested on suspicion of conspiracy

to supply Class A and B drugs are A 44-year-old

man from Vauxhall, a 36-year-old man from

Huyton , a 30-year-old man from Huyton, a 28-

year-old man from Huyton and a 22-year-old man

from Huyton.