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Dodd, left and Hall, right. Two men caught in possession of 126g of heroin and one gram of crack cocaine on-board a train in Lancashire have been jailed for a combined eight years and 10 months. The discovery of the drugs was made by British Transport Police (BTP) County Lines Taskforce officers in February this year. On March 31, Andrew Hall, 46, of Anson Street, Barrow-in-Furness, and Daniel Dodd, 41, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply controlled d...

JAILED: Andrew Hall (left) and Daniel Dodd TWO men found with a stash of drugs worth £6,000 onboard a train to Barrow have been jailed. Andrew Hall, 46, of Anson Street in Barrow, and Daniel Dodd, 41, of no fixed address, were found with 126 grams of heroin and one gram of cocaine by transport police officers. The pair were sentenced to a combined eight years and 10 months at Preston Crown Court after they admitted possession with intent to supply class A drugs at an earlier hearing. H...

Joshua Ingham has been jailed A DRUG dealer has been jailed after being caught dealing at a station. Joshua Ingham, 24, and of St Andrew Road, Bridlington, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply controlled drugs of Class C at Hull Crown Court on December 18 last year 2020. On Wednesday last week (April 14), a judge sentenced him to six months in prison. He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge or £149. At just after 1pm on 9 December 2019, officers from British Transp...

A COUNTY LINES taskforce that tackles gangs using railways to transport drugs made a total of 934 arrests within a year of being set up. The British Transport Police County Lines Taskforce carries out operations at stations and train routes across Wales, England and Scotland. Its key aim is to protect and safeguard the children who are often used by County Lines gangs to move drugs and cash between import and export locations, which can be hundreds of miles apart. In November 2019, Brit...

  More than 900 arrests and £300k worth of cash seized from kids on trains in county lines operation More than 900 arrests and £300k worth of cash seized from kids on trains in major county lines operation Police tackling county lines gangs who send children onto trains to transport drugs have seized more than £300,000 in cash and arrested more than 900 people in the last 12 months.  Since the start of the British Transport Polices County Lines Taskforce in December 2019 the team...