A teenager has been charged with drug dealing after police arrested him in an alleyway in Gravesend.

Police were conducting patrols around 4pm on Monday when they noticed several known drug users in an alleyway between Alfred Place and Perry Street, Northfleet.

Officers stopped and searched a teenage boy, seizing approximately 120 wraps of suspected crack cocaine and heroin, money and a phone.

The 14-year-old boy from Erith was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and later charged with the offences.

He was remanded in custody to appear at Medway Magistrates’ Court today.

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