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17/04/2009
Charges After City Drugs Raid
Four people have appeared before Laganside Magistrates Court charged with drug offences.
The arrests were made following a police swoop in the greater Belfast area yesterday.
Popular city centre nightclub Mynt, on Dunbar Link, was searched as part of the operation.
The club was subjected to a covert police operation on three weekends between January and March, the court heard today.
A number of other locations were also investigated by specialist police teams.
The operation targeted the supply of cocaine and ecstasy.
Police charged five men and a women, all in their 20s and 30s, in relation to the city-wide raids.
They are accused of offences relating to the possession and supply of class A drugs.
Today three of the accused men and the women heard the charges read before a magistrate.
Another man will appear in court later.
(PR/BMcC)
The arrests were made following a police swoop in the greater Belfast area yesterday.
Popular city centre nightclub Mynt, on Dunbar Link, was searched as part of the operation.
The club was subjected to a covert police operation on three weekends between January and March, the court heard today.
A number of other locations were also investigated by specialist police teams.
The operation targeted the supply of cocaine and ecstasy.
Police charged five men and a women, all in their 20s and 30s, in relation to the city-wide raids.
They are accused of offences relating to the possession and supply of class A drugs.
Today three of the accused men and the women heard the charges read before a magistrate.
Another man will appear in court later.
(PR/BMcC)
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