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Manchester Evening News
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Chris Slater

More than £100k of drugs and a cocaine compressor are seized during a police raid in Gorton

A man has been arrested and drugs worth more than £100,000, as well as drug production equipment, were seized by police after a raid in Gorton.

Officers from Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) Gorton neighbourhood team attended the address in east Manchester on Friday morning.

During the search they found drugs worth an estimated £120,000 they have revealed.

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A cocaine compressor was also seized they said.

(GMP Gorton)

The man, whose age has not been disclosed, was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A and class B drugs.

No further details have yet been been divulged.

(GMP Gorton)

However in a post on Twitter GMP Gorton shared photographs showing what appear to be potted cannabis plants as well as a box of foliage, as well as the red coloured compressor.

"This will not be harming our community," they said.

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