MASSIVE HAUL IN DRUG RAIDS

Seven arrests after £130,000 seizures

Drugs worth over £135,000 were seized by police in houses around West Lothian during a week-long crackdown.

Seven people have been charged under the Misuse of Drugs Act following seven days of enforcement activity.

On June 7, officers searched a home in Burns Terrace, Bathgate, and found cannabis worth almost £23,000. A 32-yearold man was arrested.

The following day a search was underaken at an address in Laurel Grove, Livingston, where police seized half a kilo of cannabis, around 4000 diazepam tablets and 70g of amphetamine.

The combined value of these drugs is around £6250 and a 34-year-old man and 28-year-old woman were taken into custody.

Police then searched a property in Heron Square, Livingston, on Monday and found 400g of cannabis, along with 11 cannabis plants. The total value was around £42,000 in total. Officers arrested two men aged 27 and 33 in connection with this recovery.

A house in Lothian Street, Bathgate, was searched and a 53-year-old man was charged after six cannabis plants, worth around £1320, were recovered.

A 49-year-old man was arrested on

June 12 following a search of Houston Industrial Estate in Livingston, which resulted in the seizure of herbal cannabis and 33 cannabis plants with a combined value of £62,760.

Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Reid said:“These proactive searches are only successful because of the outstanding support we have from local communities, who continue to come forward with information about ongoing drug crime in their area. If anyone would like to report offences of this nature they can rest assured we will treat the information with the utmost seriousness and respond accordingly. The public can contact us via 101 or make an anonymous report to the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”