17 charged on drug offences; RAID: Some face further charges in Operation Laser.Byline: Emma Stone SEVENTEEN men and women have appeared in court following Warwickshire Police's largest-ever series of dawn raids. The defendants - aged between 21 and 59 - have been charged with conspiring to supply Class A drugs and appeared at Nuneaton's Justice Centre yesterday. Some face further charges of money laundering The process of taking the proceeds of criminal activity and making them appear legal. Laundering allows criminals to transform illegally obtained gain into seemingly legitimate funds. , theft and handling stolen goods. Their arrests follow Warwickshire Police's Operation Laser. The operation - which cost the force pounds 55,000 - involved 200 police officers raiding homes in Nuneaton and Bedworth Nuneaton and Bedworth (nənē`tən), district (1991 pop. 115,300), Warwickshire, central England. The district primarily comprises the city of Nuneaton and the town of Bedworth. The district's growth was based on coal mining. on Tuesday morning. Following a confidential briefing at Bramcote Barracks bar·rack 1 tr.v. bar·racked, bar·rack·ing, bar·racks To house (soldiers, for example) in quarters. n. 1. A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel. , near Nuneaton, officers were split into a number of teams that raided homes in simultaneous raids. The busts, which took place at 6am, aimed to cut organised crime in Nuneaton and Bedworth. A total of 17 people were arrested during the raids and an 18th handed himself into police later that day. The following people were charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs: Jamie Horton, 31, of Barbridge Close, Bulkington; Jennifer Horton Jennifer Rose Horton Deveraux (born onscreen September 11, 1976) is a character on the television drama Days of our Lives. The role of Jennifer was played on a recurring basis by Maren Stephenson from 1976 to 1977 and Jennifer Peterson from 1977 to 1978. , 59, of Barbridge Close, Bulkington; Robert Cooper, 35, of Waverley Avenue, Nuneaton; Katherine Erskine, 28, of Glebe GLEBE, eccl. law. The land which belongs to a church. It is the dowry of the church. Gleba est terra qua consistit dos ecclesiae. Lind. 254; 9 Cranch, Rep. 329. In the civil law it signified the soil of an inheritance; there were serfs of the glebe, called gleboe addicti. Road, Nuneaton; Ray Ensor, 34, of Marlborough Road, Nuneaton; Aaron Adamson, 21, of Drayton way, Nuneaton; John Taylor, 42, of Coleshill Road, Nuneaton; Nicky Warren, 27, of Waterlilly Way, Nuneaton; Hamza ham·za also ham·zah n. A sign in Arabic orthography used to represent the sound of a glottal stop, transliterated in English as an apostrophe. Bilimoria, 29, Leicester Road, Nuneaton; Jonathan Crowley, 32, of Edward Street, Nuneaton; Ronald Harbron, 27, of Bracebridge Street, Nuneaton; David Casey, 22, of Earls Road, Nuneaton and Hezron Rochester, 28, of Meadow Avenue, West Bromwich. In addition, Carl Bradford, 42, of Haunchwood Road, Nuneaton, and Vicky Ellis, 32, of Haunchwood Road, Nuneaton, were charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs and money laundering. Kellie Taylor, 25, of Bracebridge Street, Nuneaton was charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs, theft and receiving stolen goods Ask a Lawyer Question Country: United States of America State: South Carolina What is the maximum fine for the charges of receiving stolen goods and obtaining funds under false pretenses?? The latter pertains to pawning an item ; Paul Cheshire, 22, of Buttermere Avenue, Nuneaton, was charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs and concerned in the supply of class A drugs. A 30-year-old man also arrested on Tuesday morning was released with no further charge. All the defendants will next appear at Warwick Crown Court on November 16. Yesterday police arrested a further 21-year-old man on suspicion of conspiring to supply Class A drugs. He is currently being questioned by police. CAPTION(S): SIGN OF THE TIMES ... A police officer lets local residents know what's going on Verb 1. know what's going on - be well-informed be on the ball, be with it, know the score, know what's what know - know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?" during the dawn raid. |
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