A Horrible Game Of Hide & Seek

📣 Wantage & Grove NHPT 📣

While patrolling the roads surrounding Truck Festival on 24th July 2026, our team came across a vehicle that we believed may have been involved in the supply of drugs.

The driver must have had quite a shock when, whilst waiting at the traffic lights on Milton Hill, Steventon, PC Oldroyd entered the vehicle and immediately placed him in handcuffs.

With assistance from our colleagues at Oxford NHPT, a thorough search of the vehicle was carried out. And when we say thorough, we mean THOROUGH! 👀

Despite the extensive search, nothing was initially located. However, our spidey senses were working overtime and we remained convinced there was more to this story. As a result, the male was taken to Abingdon Custody for a strip search.

It soon became apparent that he wanted to play a rather unpleasant game of hide and seek... a game that we really did not want to play.
Just as the custody search process was about to begin, the male produced a sock from inside his pants.
Inside that sock were 19 wraps of cocaine.

As a result, the 36-year-old male from outside the area was arrested on suspicion of:
✅ Possession with intent to supply Class A drugs
✅ Possession of cannabis
✅ Driving without insurance
And to top it all off... his vehicle was seized. 🚔

A fantastic result by all officers involved, removing suspected drugs from circulation and helping keep our communities safe.

📢 One final message from us...
We're really not keen on these unpleasant games of hide and seek.
In future, if you're stopped by police, save everyone the trouble and just comply. 
Because one way or another, we always find whatever is being hidden.