Police have seized thousands of dollars worth of drugs and weapons in a major operation to target street-level drug dealers.
CRACKDOWN: Police raided this Bellevue home and allegedly found 47 bags of Cannabis, each worth $25, as well as cash and a smoking implement. Picture: Richard Polden Source: PerthNow
Inspector Rob Anderson looks over drugs and weapons seized as part of Operation Crackdown. Picture: Nicole Cox. Source: PerthNow
Drugs and weapons seized as part of Operation Crackdown. Picture: Nicole Cox. Source: PerthNow
MORE drug raids are planned by West Australian police after a one-day blitz in metropolitan and regional areas that led to 86 arrests.
Operation Crackdown was undertaken in the metro area yesterday morning, targeting street-level drug dealers who encouraged and facilitated crimes among drug users such as burglaries, police said.
"Significant intelligence on drug dealers has been gathered, which will lead to further drug operations across regional WA,'' WA police said today.
Fifty properties in Rockingham, Inglewood, Morley, Balga, Bellevue, Trigg, Girrawheen and Padbury were searched as part of the sting, dubbed Operation Crackdown.
In country WA, police conducted 42 simultaneous raids from Eucla to Kununurra, Albany to Broome and major coastal towns.
Police said cannabis, methamphetamines, amphetamines, cocaine and psylocibin (mushrooms) had been seized during the raids.
In addition, a cache of weapons including a sawn-off rifle, throwing knives, axes, a crossbow, butterfly knife and samurai sword were also allegedly located during the raids.
Operational Commander Inspector Rob Anderson today said the operation aimed to conduct a large number of drug search warrants across the metropolitan area in a single day to disrupt and dismantle these dealers' activities.
"WA Police are committed to making the communities a safer place,'' Insp Rob Anderson said..
Across the metropolitan area, police made 63 arrests and issued 104 summons for 217 charges from metropolitan raids. During the suburban search warrants $85,000 in cash was seized and stolen property valued at $56,000 was confiscated.
Regionally, officers laid 120 charges, made 22 arrests and summonsed 23 people to court on a range of drug, stolen property, unlicensed firearms and weapons charges.
Insp Anderson said the operation was to "send a loud and clear message to those drug dealers that if you participate in this behaviour...WA Police will find you. They will execute search warrants at your premises, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week, maybe not next month but we will find you and we will target you.
"There is no doubt that drug dealers and those people involved in drugs are also involved in other crimes as well.''
Insp Anderson said it was concerning that children had been found at some of the alleged drug dens raided by police yesterday.
"There's no ethics amongst drug dealers,'' he said.
In Donnybrook, police found a suspected clandestine drug lab in bush land.
At a home in Bellevue officers allegedly seized 47 individual bags of cannabis in a tin canister on a bedside table.
While at one property in Trigg, 133 cannabis plants worth $200,000 were uncovered.
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