{"id":33778,"date":"2021-03-17T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=33778"},"modified":"2021-03-17T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:07:17","slug":"stolen-cars-and-class-a-drugs-seized-in-organised-crime-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/17\/stolen-cars-and-class-a-drugs-seized-in-organised-crime-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen cars and class A drugs seized in organised crime bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police have discovered six suspected stolen cars and a mass of Class A drugs in an industrial lockup near Wicker, Sheffield.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A warrant was issued after the police received information about organised crime in the area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sheffield Proactive CID forced their way into the lockup, sawing their way in through the metal shutters where they found the illegal evidence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Officers from Sheffield&#39;s Proactive CID recovered stolen vehicles and Class A drugs from a lockup in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sheffield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sheffield<\/a> yesterday \ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<p>The vehicles are believed to have been stolen in incidents across the north of England. <\/p>\n<p>Read more about the warrant\u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ydyFtBEzik\">https:\/\/t.co\/ydyFtBEzik<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gohWc7VnX8\">pic.twitter.com\/gohWc7VnX8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; South Yorkshire Police (@syptweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/syptweet\/status\/1371760661781434373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detective Constable Mike Jenkins said: \u201cAs well as a significant quantity of drugs, we also recovered cash which was hidden away in the premises.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe vehicles we recovered are all believed to have been stolen in incidents across the north of England so this is a really good result for our team and the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are carrying out these types of raids on addresses across the city every week, based on intelligence and information coming from our communities. I hope that people see this and realise that working with us does make a difference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhilst no-one was at the premises at the time, we are now carrying out significant enquiries to identify a number of people we want to speak to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOrganised crime has an impact on all of us, we are committed to disrupting the activity of criminals in this city.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This action comes a few weeks after South Yorkshire Police issued warnings about young people being coerced into organised crime groups in Doncaster.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detective Inspector Steve Smith said in February: \u201cNationally, gangs are using coercion, threats of violence or physical harm to force youngsters to carry out illegal activities on their behalf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou may have heard this referred to as county lines, or child criminal exploitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese young people may feel like they\u2019re in control, but in reality they\u2019re not. Adults who know the risks involved continue to put young lives in jeopardy to further their criminal enterprises, and we must break this cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLet\u2019s be very clear: organised crime groups engage in child abuse, that\u2019s what child criminal exploitation is. It is abuse of our young people and as a community, we must work together to protect our most vulnerable from this risk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have discovered six suspected stolen cars and a mass of Class A drugs in an industrial lockup near Wicker, Sheffield.\u00a0 A warrant was issued after the police received information about organised crime in the area.\u00a0 Sheffield Proactive CID forced their way into the lockup, sawing their way in through the metal shutters where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":11271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story-3"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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