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<\/p>\nThe incident took place in the Donegall Quay area on Wednesday<\/p>\n
13:40, 02 Jul 2026Updated 16:21, 02 Jul 2026<\/p>\n
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A video of the incident has appeared on social media<\/p>\n
A man has been arrested as police seized suspected drugs worth \u00a3225,000 after two police vehicles <\/a>were involved in a collision as they stopped a vehicle in Belfast.<\/p>\n Officers from the PSNI’s Paramilitary Crime Task Force<\/a> made the arrest on Wednesday, July 1, after they signalled for a vehicle to stop in the Donegall Quay area. The vehicle attempted to make off from officers and collided with two police vehicles.<\/p>\n Police say they<\/a> then recovered a “large quantity of suspected Class A controlled drugs” from the vehicle with follow-up searches in the Newtownabbey and Mallusk areas uncovered further drugs.<\/p>\n General view of a police operation in the Donegall Quay area of north Belfast yesterday afternoon where 2 police vehicles stopped a vehicle after failing to stop.<\/p>\n (Image: Press Eye. )<\/p>\n On Thursday afternoon, police said a 34-year-old has been charged with possession of a Class A controlled drug with intent to supply, possession of a Class A controlled drug, failing to stop for police and driving without due care and attention. He is due to appear before Belfast Magistrates\u2019 Court on Friday, 3rd July.<\/p>\n Detective Inspector Maguire <\/a>said: \u201cWhile conducting a proactive policing operation yesterday in the Donegall Quay area in relation to the supply of Class A controlled drugs, officers signalled for a vehicle to stop. It failed to do so, attempting to make off instead, which resulted in a collision with two police vehicles.<\/p>\n \u201cThankfully, there were no reports of any injuries and a subsequent search of the vehicle uncovered a large quantity of suspected Class A controlled drugs, which were then seized.<\/p>\n \u201cThe driver, a man in his thirties, was arrested on suspicion of possession of a Class A controlled drug, possession of a Class A controlled drug with intent to supply, providing money or property for the purposes of terrorism, failing to stop for police and driving without due care and attention.<\/p>\n \u201cHe remains in police custody at this time.<\/p>\n \u201cFollow-up searches conducted in the Newtownabbey and Mallusk areas resulted in further suspected drugs being seized, along with a number of vehicles, with the total estimated street value of all drugs seized as a result of the searches \u00a3225,000.<\/p>\n Some of the items seized by police<\/p>\n \u201cThese searches and the arrest demonstrate the PCTF\u2019s commitment to tackling the harm caused by illegal drug use and supply in our communities.<\/p>\n \u201cOur enquiries are ongoing and I would encourage anyone with information about the supply or use of illegal drugs to contact police on the 101 number.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can also report to police online, via www.psni.police.uk\/report<\/a> or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at http:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/.<\/a> \u201d<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident took place in the Donegall Quay area on Wednesday 13:40, 02 Jul 2026Updated 16:21, 02 Jul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[924,59,57,58,50,64126,2662,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-north-belfast","tag-psni","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670894","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=670894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0_unnamed-30.jpg\")
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