A local drug dealer has been jailed for drug dealing on the ‘J’ line, the name of the telephone number that was used to run the organised drug dealing network operating in Manchester

County Lines are the use of dedicated phone lines to supply drugs from urban areas out to smaller towns across the country. This does however also occur from one area to another within the same city. In this investigation, this line was operating across North and Central Manchester.

In 2023, GMP’s dedicated County Lines Team received intelligence that a phone line was being used to sell class-A drugs across Manchester.

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