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Children being used by gangs to carry drugs to rural areas: Disturbing trend revealed after criminal network is smashed by police
By REBECCA CAMBER,
10 September 2014
250 police swooped on eight members of Lewisham gang suspected of recruiting children
In past six months 15 children have been arrested in Kent and Hampshire carrying up to 200 rocks of crack cocaine
Yesterday police swooped in dawn raids on six London and four Kent and Hampshire addresses, arresting eight people
Schoolchildren as young as 14 are being used as drug mules by London gangs to transport hundreds of rocks of crack cocaine to villages in the Home Counties.
Scotland Yard smashed a large criminal network yesterday allegedly trafficking boys and girls to rural parishes and towns in Kent and Hampshire where they were forced to carry crack cocaine and huge quantities of heroin worth thousands of pounds.
Around 250 officers swooped on eight members of a Lewisham gang suspected of recruiting children directly from south London schools and youth clubs.
Police fear that London street gangs are increasingly using children to smuggle Class A drugs as they attempt to find new lucrative markets in leafy towns and villages around Canterbury, Portsmouth and Folkestone where there is less competition.
Under pressure from high-profile police tactics that have led to the break-up of dozens of criminal networks in the capital, drug dealers are shifting their operations to areas in the Home Counties considered a ‘soft touch’.
Over the past six months 15 boys and girls aged between 15 and 20 have been arrested in Kent and Hampshire carrying up to 200 rocks of crack cocaine or large amounts of heroin.
continued http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nal-network-smashed-police.html#ixzz3D2b6LYBf
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I love reading about the wonderful outcomes of prohibition. It warms ones heart. I have seen children to young to even speak peddling crack on Bourbon street, New Orleans Louisiana, USA. End the drug war to save the children!!!
By REBECCA CAMBER,
10 September 2014
250 police swooped on eight members of Lewisham gang suspected of recruiting children
In past six months 15 children have been arrested in Kent and Hampshire carrying up to 200 rocks of crack cocaine
Yesterday police swooped in dawn raids on six London and four Kent and Hampshire addresses, arresting eight people
Schoolchildren as young as 14 are being used as drug mules by London gangs to transport hundreds of rocks of crack cocaine to villages in the Home Counties.
Scotland Yard smashed a large criminal network yesterday allegedly trafficking boys and girls to rural parishes and towns in Kent and Hampshire where they were forced to carry crack cocaine and huge quantities of heroin worth thousands of pounds.
Around 250 officers swooped on eight members of a Lewisham gang suspected of recruiting children directly from south London schools and youth clubs.
Police fear that London street gangs are increasingly using children to smuggle Class A drugs as they attempt to find new lucrative markets in leafy towns and villages around Canterbury, Portsmouth and Folkestone where there is less competition.
Under pressure from high-profile police tactics that have led to the break-up of dozens of criminal networks in the capital, drug dealers are shifting their operations to areas in the Home Counties considered a ‘soft touch’.
Over the past six months 15 boys and girls aged between 15 and 20 have been arrested in Kent and Hampshire carrying up to 200 rocks of crack cocaine or large amounts of heroin.
continued http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nal-network-smashed-police.html#ixzz3D2b6LYBf
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I love reading about the wonderful outcomes of prohibition. It warms ones heart. I have seen children to young to even speak peddling crack on Bourbon street, New Orleans Louisiana, USA. End the drug war to save the children!!!
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