Dozens of people have been arrested after police targeted county lines criminals across Cheshire.
Many of those arrested and charged are from Merseyside and are thought to be connected to drug offences as well as some being in possession of a knife and driving offences. Cheshire police say they have recovered 497 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin, 17 wraps of cannabis, almost 1kg of cocaine and valued at an approximate total of £69,000 as well as £27,000 in cash seized.
Officers also recovered 63 mobile phones, three vehicles, seven knives and eight other weapons including an air pistol and air rifle. Addresses were also identified as being linked to cuckooing – a term used to describe how organised crime groups either befriend, manipulate or force themselves into the homes lived in by vulnerable people in order to use the property to store and sell heroin and crack cocaine.
