A 25-YEAR-OLD man has been released under investigation after being arrested in an armed police raid at a house in Newport on Wednesday.
Gwent Police were called to the terraced house on Morris Street, off Corporation Road, following reports of a disturbance.
Residents reported armed police and dog units attending the incident.
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Speaking on Wednesday, a Gwent Police spokesman said: "We were called at approximately 2.30pm this afternoon to a report of a disturbance at a property on Morris Street, Newport.
"A 25-year-old man from Newport has been arrested on suspicion of threats to kill and possession with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A.
"There was nobody else in the property and there were are no reported injuries.
"Armed police were in attendance as a precaution."
(Gwent Police outside a property on Morris Street.)
The man has now been released under investigation in relation to being arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply a controlled drug of Class A.
He has been released without charge in relation to being arrested on suspicion of threats to kill.
Speaking while police officers were at the property, one resident, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: "The Police arrived and asked if we'd heard anything around lunchtime.
"There was a whole unit of armed police and dogs."
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