FOUR-legged, tail wagging, crime cracking sleuth Buster has lived up to his name following a narcotics search on Teesside.
The white and brown police spaniel sniffed out 2,000 ecstasy tablets with a street value of £20,000 plus wraps of heroin in raids on three houses on Stockton's Hardwick council estate.
Buster is one of eight sniffer dogs who between them have retrieved more than 80 drugs cashes with a street value of £250,000 in the Cleveland Police area, so far this year.
Three men, aged 27, 23 and 22 and two women aged 21 and 17 were arrested following yesterday's raids at Stockton and are helping police with their inquiries.
The operation was organised by the Hardwick Community Police team whose sergeant Nick White said: "The residents of Hardwick are not prepared to tolerate the presence of drug dealers on this estate. We will continue to take action against those responsible for supplying drugs."
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