Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Being a drug dealer sure is lucrative ... particularly if you're also wearing a badge. "The agents actually brought with them 146 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of an undercover vehicle," [...] In addition to posing as drug buyers, [undercover officers] pose as drug dealers and the marijuana will be useful bait to trap more traffickers down the road. The seized boat will be auctioned off and the sheriff's office and the other police agencies that took part in the bust can keep the money. They'll also split the cash the suspects paid for the marijuana. And they get to keep the cash that we paid them through taxes, too! And we get... ? Seriously, we get... ? [Thanks, Mike] 7:27:34 PM |  drug policy | Links | permalink | comment []

Words, words... they're all we have to go on Chief Dennis Jones, describing murdered Rachel Hoffman: "She was completing a diversion program for possession of over 20 grams of marijuana and pending felony charges for possession with intent to sell MDA (or Ecstacy), maintaining a drug house, possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia." Sounds pretty hard core, doesn't it? Translation: Rachel was a college student who sold pot to her friends. She was first caught with less than an ounce of pot and later caught with 5 ounces of pot and six ecstasy pills. On the basis of that, they decided she should go to hard core dealers and attempt to purchase 1500 ecstasy pills, two ounces of cocaine, and a gun. 9:13:18 AM |  drug policy | Links | permalink | comment []