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Camden News - by SIMON WROE
Published: 16 October 2008

Two arrests as police swoop on crack den

‘We took drug activity out at its source’

POLICE teams arrested two people during a raid on a Kentish Town crackhouse on Tuesday morning.
Class A drugs – believed to be heroin – were seized when officers swooped on the address in the Leysdown estate, Malden Road, shortly after 11am.
A man and a woman were arrested at the property which is believed to have been used as a one-stop shop for addicts to buy and take hard drugs.
Police later confirmed that the male suspect was found to be in breach of an Asbo banning him from every council property in the borough because of prior drug offences.
It is the latest operation in a recent police blitz on crime.
Haverstock Safer Neighbourhoods officer Sgt Danny Hewitt highlighted drugs – along with car crime and anti-social behaviour – as the top priority for the area.
“This is a problem that has been going on for some time,” he said.
“We took the drug activity out at the source to prevent the dealing of drugs in Malden Road. It has a knock-on effect that helps to reduce the number of crimes in the area.”
The raid, led by Camden Police’s Borough Task Force and Haverstock Safer Neighbourhoods team, follows a crackdown on under-age drinking last week that led to four off-licences in Malden Road and Prince of Wales Road being prosecuted.
Neighbour Yasmin Allen hailed the ongoing police action.
She said: “Leysdown has had a lot of problems recently with drugs and gangs. This is evidence that police are having successes.”
A man in his mid-30s and a woman in her mid-20s appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Wednesday) charged with breaching Asbo conditions and a drug rehabilitation programme court order respectively.

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