Police seize £1m worth of cocaine and find indecent images of children

Police have arrested a 30-year-old man and seized suspected cocaine with an estimated street value of £1m.

A man had been arrested on Friday on suspicion of offences relating to drug supply, money laundering and indecent images of children.

As a result of related searches the cocaine was recovered from a property in Dungannon.

Det Insp Conor Sweeney said the arrest comes "as a result of the forensic examination of two mobile phone devices seized by detectives from a vehicle stopped in January in the Markethill area".

"The devices showed evidence of organised drug supply of both cocaine and cannabis and the movement of illicit cash," Sweeney said.

Indecent images of children were also uncovered on a phone.

"This arrest displays two things: firstly, our commitment to tackling this type of harm using all the technical capabilities at our disposal, and secondly, the multi-layered criminality that organised criminal groups are involved in," Sweeney said.

"People do need to understand that for every gram of cocaine they buy from a drug dealer, there is a real level of harm behind that. This harm may not be immediately visible but it is very real."