POLICE have arrested 22 people after high-profile raids on suspected crack houses in a North-East town yesterday.
In three simultaneous raids in Union Street and Outram Street, Middlesbrough, officers seized crack cocaine with an estimated street value of £400, and arrested suspected dealers and users, including a pregnant woman.
Officers from Cleveland Police's community policing and dog sections combined in the raids that formed part of the police force's A Dealer a Day clampdown on drug dealing.
After making the arrests and seizing drug paraphernalia, officers put up posters on doors announcing Crack House Closed.
Extra holding cells in Middlesbrough's South Bank police station had to be opened to take in the many suspects. They were still being questioned by officers last night.
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