A POLICE crackdown on drug peddlers and related violence in Hampshire has seen more than 60 people arrested since its launch three months ago.
The Operation Fortress campaign – a Daily Echo backed two-year drive to reduce the supply of and demand for class A drugs and wipe out violence associated with it – has resulted in 63 arrests since May.
Most recently officers have arrested three people following a drugs warrant in Northbrook Road, Southampton .
Two of those arrested are a 26-year-old woman picked up in Southampton, who has been bailed and 23-year-old Myles Harris, from Kent, who was arrested in London and charged with conspiring with five other men to supply cocaine and heroin.
He appeared at Southampton Magistrates’ Court and was remanded in custody. The third, a 32-year-old, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs and remains in custody.
The three arrests come after seven people were initially arrested and charged after police raided the property on July 11.
Another four were arrested between July 30 and August 7, all of whom remain on police bail.
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