INVESTIGATION: On the line - Whack-a-mole

揭秘英国“打地鼠式”跨城贩毒网!

The Story

2026-03-25

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In the final episode of our county lines series, we hear how county lines drug gangs are continuing to shift their business model to avoid detection. Policing minister, Sarah Jones, explains how the government is planning to fight back. Plus, The Times’ crime editor David Woode sits down with The Sunday Times’ northern editor David Collins to discuss what they've learnt about the inner workings of county lines gangs. This is episode five of a five-part special investigation into county lines drug dealing, running in audio, video, print and digital from The Times and The Sunday Times. This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory Host: David Woode Producers: Kate Lamble, Edward Drummond, and Taryn Siegel We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com Read more: I joined the police on a county lines crackdown Photo: Getty Images. This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is the Story.

  • It's a quiet, dark, drizzly morning in mid-October.

  • We are stood on a residential street.

  • Very narrow, terraced houses in the middle of Walsall.

  • It's 6:00 in the morning.

  • And about 30 minutes ago, 10 officers silently marched up to a door,

  • surrounded it, and used a battering ram.

  • One, two, three.

  • Forced entry.

  • Piled inside.

  • The father was quite alarmed.

  • What are you doing?

  • And we noticed the next-door neighbor hanging out the window asking what was going on.

  • Various curtains twitching on the surrounding properties.

  • They went upstairs and detained one suspect.

  • Stay there!

  • It's a warrant.

  • Hang up the phone.

  • A man believed to be in his late 20s.

  • A young South Asian man wearing a baby-blue tracksuit.