* A boy of 12 was charged with possessing £700-worth of heroin with intent to supply along with a 17-year-old after police foiled a drug deal taking place in two cars.
* An illegal immigrant mother-of-six was jailed for three years for dealing in crack cocaine and faces deportation back to the West Indies when she is released.
* Police found 250 rocks of crack cocaine packed in garlic in an attempt to throw sniffer dogs off the scent during of a search of a house in Walpole Street.
* Heroin, cannabis and a car with a combined value of £22,000 when police caught 22 dealers after stopping and searching them.
* A dealing network was disrupted when police seized heroin, crack cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis worth £2,500 from ten houses in February.
* There was no let-up last Christmas when residents watched as a Middlesbrough house was raided on December 25.
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