Woolwich woman jailed over county lines drug dealing in Kent The discovery of crack cocaine and heroin hidden underneath pillows during a police raid has led to the jailing of a county line drug dealer from Woolwich. Andrea Brown, 41, was found sleeping on a sofa when officers from Kent Police s County Line and Gang Team searched a property in Surrey Road, Margate on Wednesday July 15, 2020. Officers had stormed the house at around 6am as part of an investigation into drug supply in the town.
Surrey Road, Margate Brown, of Nightingale Place in Woolwich, south east London, was arrested after 48 wraps of the class A drugs were found under the pillows she had been laying on.
County lines dealer found with heroin and crack cocaine under her pillow in Margate house
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Updated: 18:04, 08 March 2021
A county lines drug dealer found sleeping on top of two pillows with wraps of crack cocaine and heroin hidden underneath has been jailed.
Kent Police s County Line and Gang Team raided the property in Surrey Road in, Cliftonville, Margate and found Andrea Brown asleep on the sofa.
Surrey Road in Cliftonville, Margate. Picture: Google Street View
When officers searched the property they found 48 wraps of the Class A drugs under the pillows she had been laying on.
A mobile phone was also seized during the early morning raid in July last year and later analysed by detectives who established it was a phone being used by a known drug line operating in the Margate area.
Action by the County Line and Gang Team sees 24 people across Kent arrested in February
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Updated: 14:37, 03 March 2021
A crackdown on county lines drug dealing saw 24 people arrested, 15 weapons taken off the street and more than £20,000 in cash seized in February alone.
It came as a result of action by Kent Policeâs County Line and Gang Team.
Watch the moment police stormed an address in Gillingham.
Among those arrested was a 30-year-old man in Maidstone after he reportedly ordered his dog to attack another man on February 9.
Omar Minsende and Daphne Yeo, 27, both of Queen Anne Road, were arrested after police were called to the property following reports a man had been seriously injured by a dog.
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Four county lines drug dealers jailed for supplying heroin and crack cocaine to the Medway Towns
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Updated: 19:17, 25 February 2021
Four county lines drug dealers supplying heroin and crack cocaine to the Medway Towns have been jailed.
Vincent Griffin, Andrew Evans, Mohammed Jahan and Saidul Islam were part of two organised county lines, which referred to themselves as the âYoungzâ and âSmokeyâ networks.
Vincent Griffin, 25, was sentenced to six years. Picture: Kent Police
They were involved in supplying the substances between January and August 2020, with their offending brought to an abrupt end after police officers carried out a series of warrants across Chatham, Thanet, Brighton and east London.