The police watchdog has issued a fresh appeal for witnesses to come forward after a 20-year-old woman died in a crash following a chase.
22.12.2023 - 07:17 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A dealer who ran a drugs business from a phone number nicknamed the 'J line' was identified after a family a day out a safari park. Jerome Gordon, 23, is now beginning a three-year jail term for running the 'busy' hotline which supplied drugs to people across central and north Manchester.
The number would send out bulk 'flare' messages saying ‘about in car’, ‘about fast’ and ‘on till 1’ at 'all hours of the day, directing users to locations to collect drugs', Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.
After a tip-off, police officers at the force's County Lines team began investigating the phone line earlier this year. County Lines involves the use of dedicated phone lines to supply drugs from urban areas out to smaller towns across the country. This can however also occur from one area to another within the same city, GMP said.
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Using cell site analysis, they could see the mobile phone was in the vicinity of the Prescot/ Knowsley area of Merseyside on Monday, August 21. It transpired that Gordon had been at Knowsley Safari Park but had continued to operate his drug business whilst enjoying a family day out.
On Friday, September 1, police tried to pull him over in his car in north Manchester but he failed to stop, sparking a chase. Shortly after, he crashed the vehicle and was detained by officers whilst trying to scale a fence.
Inside the car, the officers found a mobile phone which was linked the drugs line. The top contact in this phone was his own number and his girlfriends.
On Tuesday, September 26, police executed two warrants at
The police watchdog has issued a fresh appeal for witnesses to come forward after a 20-year-old woman died in a crash following a chase.
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