Teenage dealers who ran inner city dial-a-drug hotline caught by undercover cop
Schoolkids fed £10 wraps to queuing heroin addicts
A schoolboy dished out £10 heroin deals to a line of queuing drug addicts in a street dealing operation smashed by undercover cops.
The youth was part of a dial-a-drug city gang for addicts to arrange to buy wraps of heroin and crack cocaine.
Teenage runners were recruited to take orders over mobile phones and then meet up with junkies around Anfield, Fairfield and Kensington to deliver class A drugs.
But people started to notice “gaunt-faced” strangers being dealt to in the open and told police who began a sting operation.
Derek Jones, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court: “Residents grew concerned about drug dealing which in turn was leading to greater crime as addicts sought to feed their habits through stealing.
“It was gaunt-faced people meeting with youths in baseball caps on street corners. Open street dealing going on.
“Police assigned an undercover officer to work in those areas from April 2012 through to January this year. He began by hanging around on those street corners and making friends with the dealers and getting access to phone numbers for what was effectively a drug delivery service. What was unusual was the young age of many of the drug dealers.”
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/dealers-who-ran-liverpool-dial-a-drug-4749374
A schoolboy dished out £10 heroin deals to a line of queuing drug addicts in a street dealing operation smashed by undercover cops.
The youth was part of a dial-a-drug city gang for addicts to arrange to buy wraps of heroin and crack cocaine.
Teenage runners were recruited to take orders over mobile phones and then meet up with junkies around Anfield, Fairfield and Kensington to deliver class A drugs.
But people started to notice “gaunt-faced” strangers being dealt to in the open and told police who began a sting operation.
Derek Jones, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court: “Residents grew concerned about drug dealing which in turn was leading to greater crime as addicts sought to feed their habits through stealing.
“It was gaunt-faced people meeting with youths in baseball caps on street corners. Open street dealing going on.
“Police assigned an undercover officer to work in those areas from April 2012 through to January this year. He began by hanging around on those street corners and making friends with the dealers and getting access to phone numbers for what was effectively a drug delivery service. What was unusual was the young age of many of the drug dealers.”
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/dealers-who-ran-liverpool-dial-a-drug-4749374
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