WEAPONS, drugs and around £45,000 in cash have been seized following police searches.

Police officers from the specialist enforcement unit (SEU) also made three arrests after identifying a suspicious Audi A3.

A passenger was picked up by the vehicle in Queens Road, East Grinstead, shortly before 9pm on Monday January 10.

The car was followed by police and then stopped for driving without insurance.

A trio of men in their twenties were searched, and officers also searched the vehicle for suspicious items.

Officers seized cannabis, weapons, a balaclava and £1,500 in cash in the glovebox.

The driver, a 22-year-old man, was required to take a roadside drug-wipe test, which he failed.

A 21-year-old man, a passenger, was searched and found in possession of cannabis.

The third passenger, a man aged 20, was searched but no suspicious items or drugs were found. He faces no further police action.

Officers from the Specialist Enforcement Unit and West Sussex Neighbourhood Policing Team then completed a number of searches at the home addresses of the two arrested men.

At one property officers found a significant quantity of cocaine and cash.

The 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing offensive weapons in public, driving while under the influence of a specified drug, driving without insurance and possession of cannabis.

He was also arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of a class A drug.

A 21-year-old woman at the address in East Grinstead was also arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of a class A drug.

Meanwhile officers also searched the address of the 21-year-old man, where they found weapons which were all seized.

He was arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine, possessing cannabis, possessing an offensive weapon in a private place, possessing criminal property, and being concerned in the supply of a class A drug.

Approximately £45,000 in cash was seized from the searches at both addresses and the vehicles.

The three suspects who were arrested have been released on bail until February 8 while the investigation continues.