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“County Lines” is the term used to describe a form of organized crime where criminals based in big cities stalk vulnerable people and children to make them transport, store and sell drugs in smaller county towns. It takes its name from the phone lines used by organized crime gangs to communicate between towns.
The practice of “cuckooing” where county lines drug dealers take over a vulnerable person´s home to store their drugs and cash and use it as base for dealing drugs is quite disturbing.
Drug dealers identify addicts, mentally or physically impaired people, sex workers and single mothers. They force them to open their homes so they can store and sell drugs there. The delinquents stay there for a short time before moving on to new properties.
Some of these gangsters have been exploited and coerced by other criminals to work for them, but others are mobsters by choice.
Usually, the victims of cuckooing live in social housing. The criminals sometimes stay in the house they just took over and deal the drugs themselves, and other times get the householder to deal on their behalf. In this case, they travel back and forth to their original areas to get restocked.
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