THREE men appeared in court yesterday following Thursday’s dawn raids across Oxford targeting the supply of drugs in the county.

More than 100 officers raided seven properties in Oxford – as well as ones in Banbury, Chipping Norton, Aylesbury and Ashford, Middlesex – as part of Operation Raise to cut the supply of methadrone, also known as Meow Meow or M-Kat.

Yesterday at Oxford Magistrates’ Court, three of the seven men arrested following the raids appeared charged with various drugs offences.

Ciaran Macdonagh, of Northampton Road, Oxford, was charged with one count of conspiracy to supply a class B controlled drug, one count of possession of a controlled drug of class A, cocaine, and one count of possession of a controlled drug of class B, cathinone derivative.

Vishal Nazar, of Danvers Road, Oxford, has been charged with three counts of conspiracy to supply a class B controlled drug.

And James Screeton, of Willes Close, Faringdon, has been charged with two counts of conspiracy to supply a class B controlled drug.

All three men were released on conditional bail and will appear for a preliminary hearing at Oxford Crown Court on September 4.

Jivani Hussain, aged 52, of Kenilworth Road, Ashford, Surrey, was charged yesterday with one count of conspiring to supply a class B controlled drug. He is due to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on September 15.

Two further men from Oxford, aged 48 and 39, were released on bail until November 3, and a 30-year-old man was released on bail until October 12.

Residents who live in the streets that were raided by officers said they were shocked by Thursday’s events.

One resident in Danvers Road, Rose Hill, said: “It’s disgusting. We feel like we are not safe here.

“There were about four police cars and I didn’t know what was going on before a neighbour told my daughter.”