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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Anthony France

County lines gangs use Snapchat as their main tool to lure teenagers

Snapchat is the main tool being used by gangs to recruit children into county lines drug rings, police warned on Thursday after they seized £1 million worth of drugs in a crackdown.

Teenagers are being lured in by offers of cash, mobile phones, vapes and clothes in messages sent on the app and other social media platforms and then made to courier cocaine, heroin and cannabis from London to smaller town and cities.

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