Four men appeared in court yesterday following a massive drugs seizure at a north-east property.
Paul Elliott, 26, Liam Holding, 20, and Gerard Parkins, 18, appeared before Sheriff Andrew Miller at Peterhead Sheriff Court, charged with being concerned in the supply of a class A drug.
Elliot, from Blackpool, Holding, from Stafford, and Parkins, from Liverpool, were remanded in custody until their cases call again next week.
A fourth man, Alexander McKean, 30, of Peterhead, appeared on the same charge, but was released on bail.
It comes after police officers raided a property in the town’s Sandford Court on Sunday and recovered £26,000 of heroin.
The drugs seizure followed two days of high-profile raids in Fraserburgh and Peterhead last week.
Four people were arrested and four more charged after heroin, cocaine and cannabis worth thousands of pounds was seized in a crackdown on street-level dealers.
One 28-year-old was charged with obstructing police from entering a property and was told to leave Scotland within 48 hours. He will stay in Liverpool until his case recalls.
Operation Hotspur involved about 40 officers each day, with support from detectives and specialist drugs dogs.
Detective Inspector Stewart Mackie, who led the swoops, said: “This was to send a message that we won’t tolerate drug-dealing activity in this area and we will do all we can with all the resources of Police Scotland to target it.”