DETECTIVES from the PSNI’s Organised Crime Branch have arrested six people over a fraud and blackmail racket.

Police say the Organised Crime Branch assisted by uniform officers from Operational Support Department carried out a number of planned searches in the Irvinestown and Lisnaskea area today, Wednesday, March 6, in connection to an ongoing investigation into fraud and blackmail.

As a result of these searches three men aged, 28, 29 and 55 and three women aged 29, 50 and 52 were arrested.

All six are currently in police custody for questioning.