Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of U.S. drugs related crimes and oddities for the month of March 2018.
“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.”-President Donald Trump, Manchester, New Hampshire
“What makes construction so vulnerable to this epidemic is the physical nature of the work. Injury rates are 77% higher in construction than other occupations, and the financial incentive to get back to work before their bodies are healed is leading many down a path that can ultimately lead to abuse and even death.”-Jill Manzo, Midwest Economic Policy Institute
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TheFix: “…the drug crisis costing the U.S. economy $1 trillion since 2001.”
It’s now painfully obvious that the President Reagan imposed, police administered, taxpayer funded DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program not only didn’t work but in some cases actually increased drug use, based on a review of dozens of studies going back to 1991.
2017 saw a steep decline in the number of drug crime exonerations (people wrongfully convicted of drug crimes and sent to prison, then found to be innocent afterwards).
Gummy Bears are being used to turn your children into literal zombies. They’re being laced with THC, Melatonin (which is legal in the U.S. but illegal in many other countries) and deadly Flakka.
Alabama: Eufaula Police and state Department of Corrections now conducting random drug searches of Eufaula City Schools.
“We’re not here to see how many people we can lock up. Our goal must be to see how we can make people feel safe.”-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, during speech to National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives in Birmingham, 23MAR2018
Alaska: Anchorage Police reported that an addict tried to buy drugs from a dealer who apparently decided to rob the addict of his cash. Also, Anchorage Police reported three separate shootings during one weekend leaving one man dead, three people wounded, believed to be in connection to illegal drugs. In Sitka, a couple had their children kidnapped, and then the husband was pistol whipped, the wife shot in both legs by what police are calling drug gang “enforcers” from California and New Mexico: “Their sole purpose here, in our town of Sitka, based on what I’m gathering during the course of this investigation, is that they’ve come here to create hate and discontent, and to intimidate local people who live here, and to work as the muscle behind the drug trade.”-Lieutenant Lance Ewers, Sitka Police
Arizona: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (aka Border Patrol) captured 135 pounds (61 kilograms) of ganja, and arrested two teenagers in Nogales. At the San Luis crossing, a U.S. citizen was captured with more than eight pounds (3.6 kilograms) of meth strapped to his body. Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office captured a Texas resident who was driving a car filled with nearly 50 pounds of cocaine and more than 27 pounds of marijuana.
Arkansas: A now former Jacksonville cop is facing charges of stealing drugs from police evidence lockers and illegal drug possession, he claims it was because of back-pain caused by a work injury. U.S. DEA and FBI arrested ten people in Benton and Washington counties, accused of dealing heroin, cocaine and meth. In Little Rock, a drug dealer was attacked by prospective buyers, he told police they put a bag over his head and beat him with a shotgun.
KTAL: Hempstead and Nevada Counties crack down on illegal drugs
California: Visalia cops arrested three people; a man and a woman with criminal records were in possession of illegal guns (so much for California’s gun bans) and methamphetamine (a third suspect was given a simple ticket for suspicion of possession of drugs), in a separate case the third arrest involved a man who broke probation and is accused of selling meth. In Santa Rosa, a man with a criminal history was arrested for illegal possession of a pistol, narcotics and meth.
Video of U.S. Coast Guard capture of ‘stealth’ drug boat:
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: 114 PEOPLE ARRESTED IN SAN DIEGO!
Colorado: Parker Police personnel hospitalized after exposure to what was thought to be fentanyl, but turned out it was cocaine and meth.
The Denver Post: Colorado cited this drug rehab center operator 50 times in 3 years and it’s still in business.
Connecticut: In Wallingford a woman crashed her vehicle, police found 570 bags of heroin in the vehicle.
Delaware: State police found 3-thousand-127 bags of heroin in a house, two people arrested and their money confiscated by the cops.
Florida: Sarasota police arrested a man after he attacked them by punching, kicking and biting them, he was high on spice (synthetic marijuana).
Government Technology: A Florida Drug Case Could Set Precedent for Facial Recognition
The Spokesman-Review: Otter signs unanimously-passed civil forfeiture reform bill into law
Indiana: Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 83 Indiana construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015! Zombies are for real, and they’re being created with KD (marijuana, tobacco, or spice sprayed with insecticide): “Their movements are slow and lethargic, a lot of drooling and a loss of function. We find them with their clothes off, eating the grass, pulling dirt out of the ground and trying to put it in their mouth…. We find people passed out with it still in their hand. That is how fast it has an effect on them…… for some reason they are willing to do because we get the same people using over and over again…..We send them off to the hospital to get checked out and within two hours they may be back out there on the street doing it again. We have had the same person multiple times in one day.”-Captain Chris Major, Indianapolis Fire Department
Iowa: Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 32 Iowa construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015! In Iowa City, a man was stopped for driving too fast, police say his car was loaded with marijuana, cannabis oil, marijuana edibles, marijuana wax, ‘suspected’ meth, prescription drugs and all the equipment used in selling it. In Council Bluffs, police arrest mother who would do drugs, threaten children with knives.
Kansas: Apparently Geary County Sheriff’s personnel and Junction City cops have been pulling over drivers for the sole purpose of accusing them of running drugs.
KWCH: 43 people arrested in Ford County drug bust
Kentucky: Trussville police arrested a man and woman for trafficking methamphetamine, pills and marijuana. State police say drugs caused the death of a woman found behind the Swan Pond Baptist Church. In Graves County, complaints led to the arrest of two parents, the police bust revealed large amounts of synthetic drugs and Hydrocodone. State Police crime lab shows the number of samples testing positive for meth more than doubled from 2015 to 2017. In Richmond, police found a man barely dressed, standing in the street armed with knives and yelling. After being detained police found Suboxone and what looked like meth. The man claimed he thought what he had was aspirin, and cocaine that he claimed he found in a trash can.
Louisiana: From March 21 to 24, across the state 20 people were arrested/charged with some type of drug crime. In Baton Rouge, police accuse a 49 years old man of killing his 76 years old girlfriend after he smoked synthetic marijuana (mojo). He claims god spoke to him and told him to kill her. In March, a Vietnamese-American pled guilty in federal court to trafficking more than 1-thousand kilos (2,205 pounds) of marijuana. He and his girlfriend were arrested last year after police intercepted a shipment coming from California.
Maine: Lewiston police arrested an immigrant in possession of crack cocaine and $1-thousand-4-hundred USD in cash.
Maryland: A mom spending 30 years in prison for the 2015 death of her baby, due to her heroin addiction, the father spending 15 years for failing to seek medical help for the child. An autopsy showed the child was starved, then beaten to death. Naval Support Activity Bethesda (NSAB) Interfaith Center is set to start hosting a weekly Alcoholics Anonymous group, in an attempt to stop skyrocketing addictions. NSAB Chaplain Christilene Whalen said “It was a decision that was easy to make.”
Massachusetts: In a case involving a ‘lifelong drug dealer’, the U.S. Attorneys Office says some people are being forced into drug dealing through indebtedness. In Lawrence, a multi-agency investigation resulted in the arrest of a mother-son drug dealing team, accused of selling heroin, fentanyl and cocaine. After numerous complaints of drug dealing and child sex crimes, a Scituate man was finally arrested.
Michigan: Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 160 Michigan construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015!
Minnesota: Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 54 Minnesota construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015! National Guard Staff Sergeant Benjamin Kroll recognized by law enforcement for his part in the new war on drugs: “In 2016 I saw an exponential amount of overdoses taking place within Hennepin County and I wanted to see if those occurrences would have any links to anything that would happen in 2017. So in January of 2017 I started mapping everything that happened throughout the year in Hennepin County and as I did it, I started seeing patterns and trends in certain areas that got the attention of a lot of our partners.”
Mississippi: Former Hattiesburg police officer sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for drugs. A man with a criminal history was arrested for drug dealing after a massive investigation by multiple federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Local news media speculated that more arrests were pending due to the fact that just about every federal law enforcement agency, including Postal Inspectors, are involved in the investigation. The Lumberton Police Chief suspended with pay after video was posted showing him supposedly smoking marijuana.
Missouri: Talk about deadly police incompetence resulting in a drug bust; three cops were responding to a 9-1-1 call, but were sent to the wrong address which turned out to be a meth house, one cop was killed, two wounded as a result. Was the 9-1-1 dispatcher on drugs?
Montana: State crime lab chemist charged with stealing meth! He was turned in by his brother-in-law, prosecutors used the suspect’s Fitbit to prove he was using meth. A now former Fort Peck Tribal cop confessed to stealing cash and drugs from the evidence room. He was caught on security cam, police say his actions also compromised investigations into more than 24 other cases. Missoula Police made four drug arrests in two hours, suspects with warrants and in possession of meth.
Montana Standard: The building housing Butte’s new taxpayer funded $42-thousand USD drugs incinerator caught fire
Nebraska: A stupid woman thought she could sell marijuana on social media, of course the police responded to her advertisement. In Lincoln County two men circling neighborhoods with their car, and flashing the headlights, were stopped by police who accuse them of illegal possession of a pistol, and meth. In Buffalo County, an adult male and a juvenile male were arrested and accused of illegal possession of a pistol, cocaine, marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms and THC concentrate.
Nevada: In Las Vegas, a shoot-out at an apartment was apparently the result of a man looking to buy drugs. The potential drug buyer was killed by the resident, who was wounded while apparently defending his family from the irate drug buyer. A man arrested in Reno for selling meth, guns and stolen property is also wanted in California for murder. A ‘house of ill repute’ had its license suspended in Elko, after a bartender was arrested for selling meth in the brothel.
New Hampshire: In Swanzey, a multi-agency drug bust went down, at least two people arrested, one of the suspects jumped out a window before being caught, police say they found heroin/fentanyl and crack-cocaine. In Groveton, a woman is facing drug dealing charges after her alleged buyer ODed and died right in the suspected dealer’s home. A now fired Manchester undercover police detective created a backlash as many drug crimes convictions/cases are now being reviewed and even dropped. The undercover cop was involved in heroin/fentanyl investigations and now many of the cases he worked on are under suspicion. The only public info about his firing is that he was fired for “misconduct”. So far 35 pending cases have been dropped and 34 convictions are under review. Perhaps the cop’s misconduct is that he was setting innocent people up for drug crimes.
New Jersey: 31 charged in drug ring in 2 states, foreign country. In the past four years a pro-medical marijuana user has questioned law enforcers from at least 70 departments about the state medical marijuana law and found the majority of cops don’t even know about the law. Little Egg Harbor police arrested six people; two arrested for possession of meth after a vehicle stop, the other four were arrested after a search of a house revealed heroin, MDMA, meth, prescription drugs and marijuana.
New Mexico: A stupid woman tried to get out of jail by telling police she had a doctor’s prescription for meth (methamphetamine). You can have a prescription for amphetamine, but not illegal methamphetamine. The state Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) now allowing cops to spy on family data in the CYFD system due to increased cases of child abuse connected to drug use. CYFD created a Law Enforcement Portal that cops can access anytime.
KRQE News 13: Kid gets caught hiding drugs for mom during traffic stop
New York: Police claim they’ve taken down the largest drug gang in Suffolk County; six people arrested, four illegal pistols captured, $362-thousand USD in cash, 3-thousand-250 grams of cocaine, 475 grams of heroin, 4-hundred grams of crack. A New York City policewoman (NYPD) pled not guilty to using drugs, exclaiming “I do not do drugs.” She claims she failed a drug test because of the chemicals used on her hair weave. Another NYPD cop-woman accused of operating her own drug house and illegal gun selling in Bronx, she and her boyfriend were busted by state and federal cops who found heroin, cash and illegal guns. DEA says the arrest of the NYPD cop was in connection to a larger drug/gun running gang that extends from New York to Mexico.
North Carolina: Drexel Elementary locked down during drug bust near the school, seven people arrested for trafficking meth. In Carter County, 15 people arrested, 63 people indicted as a result of a multi-agency/multi-state investigation. Police captured heroin, meth, Suboxone, cash and even a Harley Davidson. A stupid Whiteville woman got caught trying to sell drugs during her DWI trial, during a courtroom break she went out to the parking lot and sold Suboxone to an undercover cop! For proof government is the source of drugs, the state Attorney General announced a ‘take back’ event called Safe Kids NC Operation Medicine Drop. You can only ‘take back’ something if you are the original source/owner of that something.
North Dakota: In Fargo, some burglars robbed a drug house and even though they left a trail of marijuana baggies (apparently to where their car was parked) police haven’t found them. For proof police are the source of drugs, 5-hundred pounds of prescription drugs were collected in Grand Forks on “Take Back Day”. You can only ‘take back’ something if you are the original source/owner of that something.
West Fargo Pioneer: Word of ND’s immunity in overdose cases getting out slowly
Ohio: Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 380 Ohio construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015! Three Texans arrested for trying to mail $1-million USD worth of fentanyl, from Ohio to Texas. After numerous complaints, Akron police arrested two men and captured fentanyl. At a Vigo County rest area a man was arrested for possession of marijuana, meth, heroin, Suboxone and illegal possession of a pistol. About seven months after a drug bust went down an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper is now fired after it was discovered he was laundering drug money. According to the U.S. Attorney the state cop “…used his position as a law enforcement officer to provide…information, intervene in criminal cases…..provide…..ballistic vests and….alibi….” to protect drug dealers. In mid-March a major fentanyl bust went down: “The fentanyl seized last night is enough to kill everyone in Toledo several times over.”-Justin Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: OHIO NEW OPIOID GROUND ZERO, BLAME BITCOIN?
Oklahoma: Centerton Police arrested three people and say they captured drugs and illegal guns, during a traffic stop. After a ‘tip’ Oklahoma City Police arrested two women and a man, all accused of illegal possession of guns, and three pounds of meth, an abused (starved) dog was found in the garage. A multi-state-federal investigation resulted in 12 people being indicted for drug crimes, mainly in Adair County, going back to 2014. She was arrested last year and confessed to possession of heroin, methamphetamine and prescription drugs, but finally a now former Holmes Park Elementary School teacher had her teaching certification revoked. Reports say she was caught when she posted on social media how she was using heroin and selling taxpayer school property to fund her habit.
Oregon: Police across the state have stopped conducting field testing of suspected narcotics over fears of potentially fatal fentanyl exposure. After a shooting in Portland, and a tip from a prisoner, the owner of Cash or Collateral Entertainment is wanted for illegal possession of guns, $150-thousand USD in unexplained cash and more than 1-thousand prescription pills, all kept at numerous locations across the state. It was also revealed that the owner of Cash or Collateral Entertainment had been under federal police surveillance since 2016.
Pennsylvania: In Logan, police arrested a man who stole a gun and then used it as cash to buy an as yet to be identified drug (heroin?). Police were alerted after the owner of the pistol reported it stolen, and then the strung-out druggie called emergency medical services for help and confessed he had stolen the pistol to buy drugs. Reading police busted a drug gang that had racked up an estimated $20-million USD in drug sales in the past year. Police had the gang under surveillance, but made their bust after overhearing plans by the gang leader to intentionally kill people. 15 gang bangers arrested: “They were getting ready, they were starting to roll and we stopped them before they got really moving. They had no thought, no qualms about committing murder or killing someone that was in their way.”-Reading Police Chief Andres Dominguez
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA CRACKS DOWN ON PILLS!
Rhode Island: A doctor now serving 51 months in federal prison for accepting bribes from the pharmaceutical industry to push opioid drugs on unsuspecting patients. The doctor, and specific drugs companies, are now being sued by the victims.
South Carolina: In Berkeley County 25 people arrested for drugs in just one day. Police captured cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, marijuana, methamphetamine, hydrocodone, alprazolam, ecstasy & suboxone strips, and two stolen cars and two stolen guns. The Paid Family gang indicted for trafficking marijuana allegedly from U.S. Army personnel at Fort Lewis in Washington state!
The Post and Courier: Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson shifted $10,000 from his office’s drug seizure account to a credit card he used for travel and hotels in South America
South Dakota: The Sioux Falls Police Chief told the city council that methamphetamine and opioid use is fueling an increase in violent crime, and said marijuana was being used to ‘gateway’ people to potentially deadly meth.
U.S. News & World Report: Spike in Pine Ridge Reservation Homicides Tied to Meth
Texas: In Austin, a man stopped for driving intoxicated was arrested after cops found a stolen pistol, marijuana and meth in the car. In College Station, a man was arrested and accused of selling LSD, MDMA, THC concentrate, marijuana and prescription drugs. In Seguin, city police and the U.S. DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) busted 16 people for selling drugs, the city police chief said the drug-gang was providing “…large financial support for prison gangs, so the likelihood that they are related to the Mexican Mafia and/or other prison gangs is very strong.” The American Enterprise Institute estimates that the opioid crisis is costing Texas taxpayers $706 USD per person! A man videoed a Central Texas Adult Day Care bus driver smoking meth while driving the bus: “I was pissed, so I called the Round Rock police…!”
Utah: When police went to a restaurant, in Price, to eat they discovered something else was on the menu; they observed people known to them as drug dealers working outside the establishment. In fact, it became clear that a drug deal was going down right in front of the cops-on-break. One man was arrested in possession of heroin and meth, another man arrested in possession of meth. But wait, there’s more! The cops were suspicious that this was the tip of the iceberg and search warrants for multi-counties were obtained and resulted in the capture of more drugs and the arrests of two more people. In Saint George, a mom breastfed her baby after she took heroin, the baby stopped breathing, the baby was hospitalized, the arrested mom kept her stash in the baby’s diaper bag. It turns out that the biggest drug trafficking bust in Utah’s history (so far), back in 2016, was the result of a gang out of British empire controlled Canada (THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND IS A DRUG DEALER, U.K. BANK REGULATOR SAYS SO!). The 2016 drug bust in Utah resulted in five people in Canada arrested this month.
Vermont: The health department says in 2017 there were 104 deadly drug overdoses; 93 of them involved a prescription opioid. State Police came across a pregnant woman injecting heroin at the Springfield Park and Ride. A now former Royalton Police officer who stole heroin from a police evidence locker for a woman he was dating, changed his not guilty plea to guilty.
Virginia: After an eight month multi-state-federal investigation 44 people charged with cash/gun/drug crimes, in connection to heroin trafficking out of New York. A now former Hampton Police officer, and Medal of Valor recipient, was arrested in Idaho in connection to drug gang operating in a Hampton fitness center.
Washington: Moses Lake Police Department found an ounce of methamphetamine, half an ounce of heroin, and over 100 prescription pills in a house. Of course they took (by law) two vehicles and $3-thousand USD in cash for themselves. Port Gamble S’Klallam, Suquamish and the Jamestown S’Klallam tribes suing the pharmaceutical industry (including Israel’s Teva) saying they were overrun with opioids.
Washington DC: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to hire 100-thousand more people for the sole purpose of inspecting packages for illegal drugs. A Veterans Affairs study reported that opioids are no better than acetaminophen (tylenol) or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDS, aka ibuprofen, aleve, etc) drugs at treating pain! In fact, after a year on opioids patients reported an increase in pain!
West Virginia: After a two year multi-state investigation police searched more than a dozen properties, seizing 12.5 kilos of cocaine, 11 illegal guns, more than $100,000 in cash, and nine suspects indicted; five of them Mexican citizens, two citizens of El Salvador.
Wisconsin: U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports a 109% increase in opioid overdose cases pouring into Wisconsin hospitals, from July 2016 to September 2017. More than 8-hundred people died from opioid overdose in 2016. Midwest Economic Policy Institutes says 92 Wisconsin construction workers died from opioid overdoses in 2015, costing the state’s economy $524-million USD! In La Crosse, three people arrested and accused of selling cocaine, heroine, marijuana, and meth. One of the men arrested has drugs-crime records back to 2006. An Eau Claire woman is facing charges of forcing two children to have sex with adults in exchange for drugs. The ‘trafficked’ children were also shot-up with meth hundreds of times, allegedly this crime went on for nine years before being discovered!
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Three totes full of medication stolen from a delivery van in Kmart parking lot
Wyoming: In Jackson a woman was found face down at table in a bar. It turns out she was the victim of the Date Rape Drug benzodiazepine and opiates. Police say she was lucky that another bar customer got suspicious and called for help. In sparsely populated Teton County, Saint john’s Medical Center reported three opioid deaths, so far: “As a practicing physician here, I’d never seen heroin here until about two years ago. I was so shocked that I even sent a note to the county attorney and law enforcement because I was really stunned to see it.”-Brent Blue, county coroner
U.S. ally Philippines: Philippine police kill 13 drug suspects in daylong raids
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: COAST GUARD CAPTURES ‘SUSPECTED’ DRUGS
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, February 2018: “TEACHING KIDS ABOUT THE HARM OF DRUGS…DOESN’T REALLY WORK.”
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: U.S. BORDER PATROL PROMOTES TRUMP’S WALL!
GUN BAN FAIL: POLICE BEHIND SKYROCKETING GUN VIOLENCE IN ANTI-GUN BRAZIL!
NEW WAR ON DRUGS: RECORD # U.S. WORKERS WHACKED ON SMACK AS “…THE SYSTEM IS STACKED AGAINST THEM.” NATIONAL GUARD IN “HIGH OPERATIONS TEMPO”
GUN BAN FAIL 2016: ANTI-GUN NYC COPS CAUGHT TAKING BRIBES FROM JEWS FOR GUNS! GUN RUNNING OUTPACES DRUG DEALING?