A pair of female drug dealers sent thousands of pounds back to crime gangs in London after being sent to Exeter to sell heroin and crack.
Natalie Collier was caught with paying in slips for £3,800 cash after her friend Emma Williams was caught selling drugs opposite Exeter College.
The two women had been bullied into coming to Exeter by men in London who threatened their families with violence unless they complied.
They were spared jail and ordered to tackle their own drug problems after a Judge at Exeter Crown Court heard they had both turned their lives around in the 15 months since they were arrested.
Collier, aged 22, and Williams, aged 21, both from South London, admitted possession of class A drugs with intent to supply and money laundering and were both jailed for two years, suspended for two years.
They were curfewed and ordered to receive supervision by Recorder Mr Robert Pawson at Exeter Crown Court, who told them they were lucky not to be going straight to prison.
He told them: "You have escaped an immediate sentence by the skin of your teeth. You are very lucky that I am going to suspend these sentences.
"I sentence on the basis you were performing a limited function and were pawns and reasonably naïve. Most importantly this case has taken 15 months to come here and in that time you have made significant progress and not reoffended."
Miss Beth Heaton, prosecuting, said Williams was arrested in Bury Meadow Park in Exeter in October 2013 after plain clothes police saw her passing packages to a known drug user.
She had 19 packages of heroin and 29 of crack with a total value of £960, a total of £140 cash and a paying in slip from the HSBC in Exeter showing she had transferred £830 cash to an account in London.
Collier's bank card was found in the rucksack and when police raided the flat in Bishop Blackall Road where they had been staying they found two more paying in slips totalling £3,030 and £115 cash.
They told police they had been forced to come to Devon to sell drugs for dealers based in South London and text messages on Collier's phone showed demands from a man called JR to pay in more cash.
Miss Emma Hayfield, prosecuting, said both women had suffered abuse in the past and were acting out of fear but had been able to turn their backs on crime with the help of charities.
She said Williams was forced into dealing to pay off a £500 cannabis debt and her friend Collier had agreed to come with her to Exeter.
She said: "They were both vulnerable and susceptible to exploitation."
