An investigation into a £5 million drugs trafficking network has led to 10 people being arrested.

Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate carried out five search warrants at addresses in Maidstone and Dover on Wednesday.

A Kent Police spokesman said: "In connection with this, six people were arrested plus four serving prisoners in HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey and HMP Rochester."

At one address about £20,000 was found behind some blankets in a wardrobe. A number of high value watches were also seized there.

Aaron Elcombe, 44, of St Francis Close, Penenden Heath, Maidstone, and Gray Elcombe, 52, of Norwood Road, Cambridgeshire, were both charged with one count each of being concerned in the supply of class A and class B drugs.

Gray Elcombe was also charged with one count of money laundering.

They were both due to appear before Medway Magistrates’ Court today.

A 47-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man, both from Maidstone, and a 51-year-old man from Dover were also arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis.

They were released pending further investigation along with a 56-year-old man from Maidstone who had been arrested on suspicion of money laundering.

Four serving prisoners aged 31, 36, 43 and 52 were arrested on suspicion of offering to supply cocaine. They remain in custody while the investigation continues.

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