Police launched a crackdown on a Liverpool drugs firm "using violence" to drive out local dealers in a seaside town.
Officers from Merseyside Police and Lancashire Police combined in a joint operation this week in a series of raids in the Morecambe area. Operation Medusa targeted a Merseyside organised crime group flooding the town with drugs, using a 'county lines' model.
According to a Lancashire Police spokeswoman: "The operation followed intelligence suggesting drugs gangs from Liverpool were expanding their operations into the town, using violence to drive out local dealers and exploiting children and vulnerable people to sell drugs – also known as County Lines."
