A 20-year-old has appeared in court on drug charges after armed police raided a town centre flat.<\/p>\n
It is understood Ronald Marku was arrested by officers taking part in an operation to locate two men wanted in connection with the death of a teenager.<\/p>\n
Marku was arrested after police reportedly discovered drugs in a flat in West Street, Sittingbourne
Police on the hunt for murder suspects discovered an alleged drug dealer in a flat in West Street, Sittingbourne<\/p>\n
Police entered the property above Charcoal Grill next door to Wetherspoon\u2019s in West Street, Sittingbourne, on Sunday afternoon, reportedly finding class A and B drugs, mobile phones and a large quantity of cash.<\/p>\n
There is no indication Marku is connected to the murder investigation, which saw the armed officers in action at various locations across the town, and also involved the force\u2019s helicopter.<\/p>\n
He was later charged with possession with intent to supply a class A drug, possession of a class B drug and acquiring criminal property.<\/p>\n
He appeared before Medway magistrates today (Tuesday), where he was remanded on conditional bail until a further hearing at Maidstone Crown Court on May 11.<\/p>\n
Yesterday (Monday), two men, aged 19 and 21, were arrested in Romney Court, Sittingbourne, in connection with the death of Ashton Harrington, who was fatally stabbed in Belmont Road, Whitstable, on Good Friday.<\/p>\n
They are currently still being held in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old has appeared in court on drug charges after armed police raided a town centre flat. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1343,924,59,57,58,191,50,190,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-531309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-kent","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sittingbourne","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}