The Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida on Thursday announced charges against 68 suspected drug dealers as part of an undercover operation using social media and dating apps.
The six-month operation dubbed “Swipe Left for Meth” — a play on Grindr and other dating apps that require users to “swipe” through scores of potential dates in their area — concluded in the arrests of 60 individuals and securement of eight arrest warrants for individuals still at-large related to drug sales or possession.
“We’ve known for some time that suspects will use the internet and social media to prey upon children online, or to engage in prostitution, but this is something we are seeing more and more of in Polk County — suspects who are using dating apps to sell illegal narcotics,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement.” Suspects are getting more creative, but so are our detectives.”
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