Police search Hastings and Rye properties in investigation into crime group
Police executed six warrants in Hastings and Rye in a bid to disrupt the supply of drugs in the area.
Thursday, 1st April 2021, 4:09 pm
On Thursday (April 1), officers from the Hastings and Rother neighbourhood policing team, neighbourhood enforcement team, tactical enforcement unit and the dog unit executed section 8 search warrants at properties in Nutley Close, Cricketers Field, Peacock Way and Udimore Road in Rye, as well as Mountbatten Close in Hastings and at Rye Harbour Caravan Park.
Police said the warrants followed intelligence received and gathered by officers relating to a crime group distributing drugs in the area. This activity has also been linked to numerous reports of criminal damage, including windows being smashed, police added.