The War on Drugs: They've Finally Arrested All the Kingpins...

[Evan!]

...so now they're moving on to the smaller players.

FALMOUTH -- She was new in school, a demure blonde with a sob story.

With her mother dead and father chronically absent, the girl said, she needed to get high to kill the pain. For three months, students at Falmouth High bought her story and sold her the drugs she said she needed.

But yesterday, the real story emerged.

The girl who some students yesterday said they knew as Keane was in fact a fresh-faced cop whose three months at Falmouth High School culminated before the start of classes yesterday when nine teenage boys were led out of their homes in handcuffs on charges of selling her marijuana and ecstasy.

So you throw a beautiful young woman at some insecure high schoolers, have her make up some horribly sad story about her dead mother, and then get her to ask them to find her some weed. What do you think they're gonna do? I knew plenty of kids in school who never touched drugs that would have fallen for this scam. High school pu$sy is a powerful drug in itself, especially when it comes with a depressing sob story.

How do these bastards sleep at night? If there were any justice in this world, they would be the ones in cuffs.

 

[mrkristofo]

That's f*cked up. That's all I have to say.

 

[cubbies]

Ah yes, our tax dollars at work. I know I feel safer.

 

[Soulive]

That blows. I wonder if the narc was hot...

 

[adam h]

I agree, very dirty and unnecessary trick.

 

[cubbies]

I agree, very dirty and unnecessary trick.

The whole "war" is freaking unnecessary. I am not saying that every drug in the world should be legal and available at the local gas station, but putting otherwise law abiding citizens in jail for stuff like this is ridiculous.

 

[kornkob]

The 'War on drugs' has become such a financial boon to police agencies, especially smaller ones or agencies with budgetary problems that we will see ever increasing instances of this kind of garbage.

It's about the money.

 

[Evan!]

The whole "war" is freaking unnecessary. I am not saying that every drug in the world should be legal and available at the local gas station, but putting otherwise law abiding citizens in jail for stuff like this is ridiculous.

well, why do you think we have the highest incarceration rate of any developed nation?

 

[Evan!]

The 'War on drugs' has become such a financial boon to police agencies, especially smaller ones or agencies with budgetary problems that we will see ever increasing instances of this kind of garbage.

It's about the money.

And power. Money & power.

 

[Air Pirate]

thats an interesting story.

i wonder what will happen to the boys when the whole thing comes out.

 

[PseudoChef]

Ah, Falmouth High. About 20 mins from where I grew up.

But yeah, f%$k the "war on drugs."

 

[mr x]

thats an interesting story.

i wonder what will happen to the boys when the whole thing comes out.

One very good lesson learned, never trust a woman.

 

[Soulive]

I hate seeing money/effort/man power going into this petty crap. What's next?? Congress going after professional athletes? :cross:

 

[TheJadedDog]

I love when we declare war on amorphous things, what a great way to pad a budget.

 

[wihophead]

The really sad thing is that if they are 17 and it was over 26 grams of weed (not sure about the X) they may end up with an adult felony. So now what are they going to do for the rest of their lives......probably end up in prison because they will NEVER be able to get a decent job. I know I would have fell into that trap....

 

[MikeFlynn74]

Ennnnnnnnnntrapment!!!

 

[mrkristofo]

The really sad thing is that if they are 17 and it was over 26 grams of weed (not sure about the X) they may end up with an adult felony. So now what are they going to do for the rest of their lives......probably end up in prison because they will NEVER be able to get a decent job. I know I would have fell into that trap....

An ounce of pot is a felony there?

 

[wihophead]

An ounce of pot is a felony there?

In Wisconsin, if you get convicted of delivery it is.....

 

[kornkob]

In Wisconsin, if you get convicted of delivery it is.....

Yeah-- this isn't posession. They actually distributed it. That's the truly henious part of this sting. They enticed kids using one of the most potent motivators for a teen male (sex) into buying drugs. While I'm sure they dotted the eyes and crossed the t's and made good and sure that the undercover didn't suggest buying the drugs first (in order to avoid entrapment) I'm sure she made good and sure that the implied 'drugs=sex' connection was there.

 

[MikeFlynn74]

You know Enticement is illegal in many states

Should be in this case as well

 

[c.n.budz]

Something tells me that any decent judge will throw this out of court.

 

[cubbies]

Something tells me that any decent judge will throw this out of court.

I wish I could believe that. Granted, they are not going to do any jail time, but they are going to be fined, given community service, probation, and possibly have to attend substance abuse programs. Not to mention, probably have their name smeared all throughout the town.

 

[rdwj]

Thank god we don't have any more pressing issues that highschool kids smoking a little weed. That is seriously a f'd up approach. I would have fallen for that FOR SURE and I never did any drugs in High School.

 

[the_bird]

Something tells me that any decent judge will throw this out of court.

I wouldn't count on it.

The local DA has had his own extremely controversial record of going after VERY small-time offenders, arguably entrapping a few kids into selling a couple joints (kids who weren't dealers, just selling a couple joints out of their own stash to get this guy to leave them alone). He then nailed them not only as dealers, but dealing in a school zone. VERY shady.

 

[mrkristofo]

Now let's wait or when this gets to court and 6 of the 9 kids come forward and say that they got with the cop...

 

[c.n.budz]

I wish I could believe that.

I have to go back to what Evan! said about kids that would never go near drugs getting weed for this girl. The cops set up a sting that these teenagers lacked the sophistication to figure out. And, as was said, Pu$$y is a powerful motivator. Even if the judge doesn't throw this out due to police shenanigans, I'd think that a competent attorney will be able to get the kids off with no fines, penalties, or record.

I got caught with an ounce of pot when I was 19. Without hiring a lawyer I ended up doing 16 hours of community service and the charges were then dropped so nothing went on my record. If I could do that on a legitimate arrest with no attorney, you'd hope that an attorney could do better with these B.S. charges.

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Hopefully these kids sold her the drugs for 'favors'. (wink... wink...)

Otherwise, it seems like we should be expecting a follow up story in a couple of months stating that the parents of these buys are filing suit against someone.

 

[mr x]

You know what's coming. They'll threaten and lean on the kids hard to give up their supplier. Same old story, same old song and dance.

 

[the_bird]

I have to go back to what Evan! said about kids that would never go near drugs getting weed for this girl. The cops set up a sting that these teenagers lacked the sophistication to figure out. And, as was said, Pu$$y is a powerful motivator. Even if the judge doesn't throw this out due to police shenanigans, I'd think that a competent attorney will be able to get the kids off with no fines, penalties, or record.

I got caught with an ounce of pot when I was 19. Without hiring a lawyer I ended up doing 16 hours of community service and the charges were then dropped so nothing went on my record. If I could do that on a legitimate arrest with no attorney, you'd hope that an attorney could do better with these B.S. charges.

It all depends on how the DA wants to fight it. It's all politics, remember.

 

[mr x]

Here's a couple funny stories of consequences and hypocrisy:

The proceeds from an asset forfeiture are divided among the law-enforcement agencies involved in the case, a policy that invites the abuse of power. Former Justice Department officials have admitted in newspaper interviews that many forfeitures are driven by the need to meet budget projections. The guilt or innocence of a defendant has at times been less important than the availability of his or her assets. In California thirty-one state and federal drug agents raided Donald P. Scott's 200-acre Malibu ranch on the pretext that marijuana was growing there. Scott was inadvertently killed during the raid. No evidence of marijuana cultivation was discovered, and a subsequent investigation by the Ventura County District Attorney's Office found that the drug agents had been motivated partly by a desire to seize the $5 million ranch. They had obtained an appraisal of the property weeks before the raid.

In New Jersey, Nicholas L. Bissell Jr., a local prosecutor known as the Forfeiture King, helped an associate to buy land seized in a marijuana case for a small fraction of its market value. In Connecticut, Leslie C. Ohta, a federal prosecutor known as the Queen of Forfeitures, seized the house of Paul and Ruth Derbacher when their twenty-two-year-old grandson was arrested for keeping marijuana there. Although the Derbachers were in their eighties, had owned the house for almost forty years, and had no idea that their grandson kept pot in his room, Ohta insisted upon forfeiture of the house. People should know, she argued, what goes on in their own home. Not long after, Ohta's eighteen-year-old son was arrested for selling LSD from her Chevrolet Blazer. Allegedly, he had also sold marijuana from her house in Glastonbury. Ohta was quickly transferred out of the U.S. attorney's forfeiture unit -- but neither her car nor her house was seized by the government.