County Lines drugs gang jailed for 221 years after undercover police infiltrate group

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Members of a multi-million pound County Lines drugs gang have been jailed for total of 221 years after the group was infiltrated by undercover police.

The covert operation took £1.3 million of drugs off the streets, closed down 18 County Lines rings and led to 72 convictions across the Midlands and London.

The gang were using vulnerable children as young as 14 to deal Class A drugs including crack cocaine and heroin. DCI Adam Pendlebury, who oversaw the operation, said: "It is the people at the top of these drug dealing gangs who we want to target. "My advice to those drug dealers we haven't caught yet is to look at the list below - perhaps there are names on there that you recognise. "There was a time when like you, their egos allowed them