A total of four people have now been arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs after last Tuesday’s swoop on a house in Oldland Common by officers from the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit.
At the same time as they were carrying out the warrant in the High Street, a 33-year-old man who lives there was arrested in Cheltenham on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs and suspicion of possession of a firearm.
A second man, aged 42, from Bishops Cleeve, near Cheltenham, was also arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
Then last Thursday. a 38-year-old man from Mangotsfield and a 34-year-old man from Fishponds were both arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.
The arrests were part of an ongoing investigation by the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit. Today police said that all four men have been released under investigation.
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