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May 2021
Five arrests in Harrogate during county lines action week
Police made five arrests in Harrogate as part of last week's national operation on county lines drug dealing.
The arrests began on May 17 when plain clothes officers on patrol around Avenue Grove in Starbeck found class A drugs on a man behaving suspiciously.
That arrest led them to a nearby property, where they found and searched three other men. The officers found drugs stashed in a mattress, £200, drug paraphernalia and three phone.
On May 22, a man in his 40s who had breached his prison licence was arrested and returned to jail.
Later the same day, police arrested a man in his 30s on Otley Road, who officers thought was driving erratically.
The suspect failed a roadside drug wipe and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and possession of class A drugs. He was released under investigation.
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County lines is where drug dealers from urban areas exploit vulnerable people, including children, and force them to deal drugs is smaller towns and cities.
It takes its name from the mobile phone lines used by dealers to communicate between towns and advertise their drugs for sale.
North Yorkshire Police also made arrests in York, Whitby, Thirsk, Scarborough, and on the A1 motorway.
Police also made 87 welfare visits to 95 vulnerable people.
Officers seized a total of £10,000 plus heroin, cannabis, pregabalin and a large quantity of suspected cocaine believed to be worth several thousands of pounds.
North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Philip Allott said he welcomed the action taken, adding:
Chief Inspector Lorraine Crossman-Smith coordinated North Yorkshire Police’s involvement in the action week. She said:
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