Women from Welwyn Garden City and St Albans have been charged with possession with intent to supply cocaine, after police seized 14kg worth of the drug.

On the evening of Friday, February 2, officers in Ashford in Kent stopped two cars suspected of being linked to drug dealing.

A man and two women were arrested and officers seized suspected cocaine with an estimated street value of around £700,000 and more than £10,000 in cash.

Both cars were also seized as part of the ongoing investigation by detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate.

Zaneta Sedlak, 32, of Martinfield in Welwyn Garden City, and Paulina Nawroceak, 28, of Howard Close in St Albans, have both been charged with possession with intent to supply and being concerned in the supply of cocaine, and possession of criminal property.

Armando Dani, 27, of Cheltenham Close in Rushden, Northamptonshire, has also been charged with possession with intent to supply and being concerned in the supply of cocaine.

All three appeared before Medway Magistrates' Court on Monday, February 5, and the case was adjourned to Maidstone Crown Court on Monday, March 4.