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A teenager has been charged with suspected drug dealing following his arrest in an alleyway in Northfleet, Gravesend. Officers on patrol at around 4pm on Monday 7 October 2019 noticed several known drug users in an alleyway between Alfred Place and Perry Street. They stopped a teenager who was also in the alleyway and following a search seized approximately 120 wraps of suspected crack cocaine and heroin, money and a phone. A 14-year-old boy from Erith was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and later charged with the offences. He was remanded in custody to appear at Medway Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 9 October 2019.