Police are warning children to watch out for adverts on Snapchat offering them hundreds of pounds as the social media app has become one of the “main tools” for recruiting youngsters into gangs.Officers are going into schools highlighting the dangers of the app as drug runners use children to ferry weapons, cocaine and other illicit goods across the country in a system known as county lines.Police said they caught 222 people and more than a million pounds worth of drugs in a crackdown lasting a week.They also seized hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash and a haul of weapons that included machetes, samurai swords and five firearms.In the wake of the bust, Detective Chief Inspector Dan Mitchell, head of Scotland
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Police warn children of Snapchat ads luring them into selling drugs – The Times
