DRUGS were seized from a Newport house in a lightning raid.

The intelligence-led raid by Alway police officers took place on Lime Crescent, Somerton around midday on Saturday.

The two occupants were arrested and taken to Newport Central police station for questioning.

Around 11 officers swooped on the property in the carefully planned raid, battered the door open and searched the property.

The rented two-bedroom house revealed chaotic scenes, with neither of the upstairs bedrooms in use, but both occupants sleeping and living entirely in the lounge.

Drug paraphernalia was found scattered across tables, and bags containing around 100 clean and used needles were discovered in an upstairs bedroom, along with blood-stained furniture and clothing.

Officers discovered around six wraps of what they believed was heroin under the mattress of one of the beds and another elsewhere in the upstairs bedroom.

A small amount of what was thought to be cannabis was also found in the living room.

The drugs were seized and sent away for tests.

A number of firearms were also found during the search and sent away for tests to establish what kind of guns they were.

The large amount of intelligence gathered for this operation dated back to February 2007 and came from members of the local community.

Sergeant Dave Morgan, of the Alway neighbourhood policing team, led the operation and reminded local drug dealers: "We only have to get lucky on one occasion, but they need to understand they have to get lucky every single time, because we will continue to revisit addresses that we believe are dealing controlled drugs."

The raid was part of the wider Operation Carousel tackling local drug use and dealing in Ringland, Alway, Somerton, Caerleon, Langstone and Llanmartin.

In December officers raiding a property as part of this operation found 16oz of skunk cannabis worth £640 and 16 grams of amphetamine worth £160, together with a quantity of money at an address in Jellicoe Close, Ringland.