NINE people have been charged with supplying Class A drugs following a series of dawn raids.
Thirteen addresses in Bolton, Bury, Rochdale and north Manchester were targeted by more than 110 officers.
The raids followed months of intelligence work by officers at the Bury division.
Search warrants were executed and a quantity of heroin and cannabis were recovered.
The nine will appear at Bury magistrates at a later date to face the drug allegations. They are Asfaq Ahmed, aged 19, of Wilson Street, Bury; Nassar Khan, aged 30, Southcross Street, Bury; Zaky Javid, aged 31, Heywood Street, Bury; Auns Butt, aged 18, Brideoak Street, Cheetham; Amjad Yaseen, aged 23, Surrey Drive, Bury; Nasir Iqbal, aged 22, Royds Street, Rochdale; Nursaab Khan, aged 22, Cheltenham Street, Rochdale; Saeed Haq, aged 30, Hareshill Road, Heywood and Gregory Henderson, aged 32, Walmersley Road, Bury.
A 15-year-old girl from Rochdale has been bailed.
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