Residents from the Swythamley estate were shocked out of their slumber early doors to the sound of bellowing police, a smashed door and crying teenagers. It came as police raided a house in their neighbourhood, one of six raids which formed a day of action by GMP’s Stockport division and saw the arrests of six ‘top tier’ names in the town’s criminal network.
The operation, carried out on Monday, is a year in the making and involves GMP's Violence Reduction Unit and the National Crime Agency.
It follows the discovery of key intelligence in September 2021, found after a ‘successful’ warrant tackling an organised crime group. Back then, the officers came away with a haul of £24k in cash and bags of cocaine and cannabis.
