A SUSPECTED street dealer was caught by police officers with £50,000 of Class A drugs.
He was picked up on a Toxteth street at the start of an operation in which scores of houses across south Liverpool were raided by police.
Around 25 homes were targeted by police in a co-ordinated blitz on Toxteth and Dingle just after 7am. Other addresses were visited on Monday.
In the operation which followed a year’s work, more than 200 officers met early this morning for briefing.
A total of 18 people were arrested and police seized substan-tial quantities of class A drugs from houses.
The alleged dealer was caught on a Toxteth street when police went for him last night.
The drugs were allegedly found on him.
