Project Medusa: Three arrested for drugs offences as part of County Lines drugs operation

We have arrested three men on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs as part of a County Lines operation.

A Ford Fiesta was stopped in Liverpool city centre at around 1.30pm this afternoon, Tuesday 8^th June, by officers from Merseyside Police’s roads policing unit and Matrix disruption as part of pre-planned operation with Cumbria Police.

Three men were arrested – a 19 year-old man from Fairfield, a 21 year-old man from Toxteth and a 39 year-old man, also from Toxteth – on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs.

The arrests came as part of a joint operation under Project Medusa into County Lines in Barrow in Furness.

All three men remain in custody where they will be questioned by detectives.

Following the stop a large quantity of suspected Class A drugs was also recovered in a house in Toxteth and will be forensically examined.