article_snippet.sent: Drugs worth £200,000, luxury cars, guns and even a boat were all seized by detectives when detectives cracked the huge crime operation which involved 26 members of the same gang.
article_snippet.sent: Some of the drugs seized during the operation - which was one of the largest to take place in north Wales .
article_snippet.sent: Drugs worth nearly £200,000 were seized by police during a five-year painstaking investigation .
article_snippet.sent: The entire 26-strong gang was caught after painstaking surveillance work by 200 police officers from North Wales, Cheshire, Merseyside and Manchester, who followed their movements between North Wales and north-west England, as well as tracking as well mobile phones.
article_snippet.sent: Cars, drugs, guns and even this boat were all seized by detectives as Cars, drugs, guns and even this boat cracked the huge crime operation .
article_snippet.sent: It was set up as part of the wider Operation Scorpion which was set up to smash organised crime gangs and was launched in 2009 after large quantities of cocaine were found hidden in a hotel locker and the loft of a house in Caernarfon.
article_snippet.sent: Information supplied by local police and members of the community helped detectives uncover drugs valued at over £179,000 stashed in various houses in the Caernarfon area.
article_snippet.sent: Police recovered 1.24kg of cocaine valued at £101,799, as well as 5.8kg of cannabis and plants worth £97,770.
article_snippet.sent: This has been a protracted and often complex investigation into the unlawful activities of an organised crime group who have established criminal links across the North West of England to facilitate the distribution of controlled drugs into North West Wales. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Drugs worth £200,000 seized by police following five year investigation .
  