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DRUG dealers are driving on to a housing estate as early as two o’clock every afternoon, a shocked resident has claimed. Suspected dealers’ cars pull up for between a few seconds and several minutes to see their ‘clients’ on Hadfield Road, on the Dale Lane estate in Heckmondwike. A witness, who did not want to be named, said the vehicles arrive outside a block of flats. Suspected drug users are seen waiting outside for a ‘delivery’ or emerging from the entrance to the flats. Each time they appear to take a small item into their hands through a car window. Residents have reported their suspicions to the authorities. On Monday this week, a 10-plate red VW Golf GTI with black alloy wheels arrived at 2pm for a likely drop-off. A woman, said to be in her 30s and with bleached blonde hair, came out from the flats to the car. Dressed in a blue tracksuit top and jeans, she appeared to take something from the Golf and then went back inside. A group of up to seven youths were seen on the pavement outside the flats at around 9.40pm on August 6. One of them moved forward as a red VW Golf slowed to a crawl. He took a package from the driver side window before the Golf sped
Form a queue ... a suspected drug dealer in a red VW Golf attracts customers outside flats on Dale Lane estate in Heckmondwike
By David Miller News Reporter davidmiller@thepressnews.co.uk
off, having stopped for mere seconds. Other suspicious vehicles seen recently include a 56 or 57-registration black Vauxhall Corsa and a black 57-reg VW Passat Problems, which date back two years, appear to centre on two council flats, the source said. Residents compiled reports for Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing (KNH), called police and phoned
tips to Crimestoppers. After previous police action, graffiti was scrawled on residents’ cars as a warning shot. The witness said: “It’d be in the winter when it was snowing or a time when your car’s dirty and they’d write a word meaning ‘snitch’. “It’s uncomfortable for everyone on the estate. “There’s people who’ve suffered burglaries in the other flats, so they’re uneasy and have complained about them.”
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