POLICE arrested three people in North Somerset last month as the force looked to tackle county lines drug dealing in Somerset.
Two men, aged 50 and 26, were arrested by the Weston-super-Mare Neighbourhood Policing Team at 9.30am on July 23 on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs (cocaine and heroin).
On July 25, neighbourhood officers were joined by the Operation Remedy Team, who specialise in drugs and burglary series, to carry out the arrest along Weston-super-Mare’s sea front.
A 22-year-old man was arrested at around 8.30pm for the same offences.
During both arrests, officers seized a knives, thousands of pounds in cash and large quantities of cocaine and heroin.
County Lines is where illegal drugs are transported from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries (although not exclusively), usually by children or vulnerable people who are coerced into it by gangs.
A police spokesperson said: “All three suspects have been released on conditional bail and we are working with our colleagues at West Midlands Police on the case.”
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