South Wales - Police pounce on car containing a heroin haul worth several million pounds headed for the streets of South Wales

•  15 DEC 2015
• BY TOM HOUGHTON

The arrest was part of Operation Frank, which resulted in 40kg of heroin being taken off the streets

Taken in January last year, the speed of the chase at times exceeds 100mph.

Officers are later seen getting out of the car and wrestling gang members to the ground, arresting them.

This heroin gang has been jailed for a total of 96 years

The action led to the largest seizure of heroin ever seen by Welsh police, before the ten members were jailed for a combined total of more than 96 years

Arrests were made after police seized 40kg (88lbs) of the drug in 2014.

Most was found inside a speaker and a suitcase in the car stopped on the M5, while a smaller amount was discovered in the footwell of a taxi in Newport.

Read more: Ten members of drugs gang responsible for Wales' biggest ever heroin haul jailed for total of 96 years

Sentences of between seven and 17 years were passed on eight men and one woman for drugs offences at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday lunchtime.

Another woman was sentenced for money laundering offences.

The sentencing followed the complex Operation Frank which was undertaken by South Wales Police and which has resulted in 40kg of heroin being taken off the streets.

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