Posted on Saturday 24 September 2005
Yesterday I mentioned a major drug bust in Wichita County. Here’s a link to today’s Times Record News report.
If they make you register to view the article, let me know and I’ll post a copy of the story. For now, I’ll translate the key phrases into "what they really mean."
after an 18 month investigation they couldn’t get enough evidence therefore they arrested 2 suspects who sang like canaries in exchange for testimony against those arrested at a later date. It’s been my experience that people who are making a desperate attempt to keep their freedom will say a whole lot of what they think someone wants to hear.
otherwise known as a trace amount which usually means a tiny ziplock bag that once contained meth.
otherwise known as a trace amount which usually means a tiny ziplock bag that once contained meth.
this one’s easy. It means the suspects "talked" about manufacturing, distributing, and possessing with the "intent" of distributing.
"organized". means they knew eachother- period. In a city the size of Wichita Falls every drug user can be connected to every drug user through a single acquaintence. I’ll go out on a limb here and guarantee you that the activities of any one of those arrested were NOT contingent on the activities of another. Yes, they sometimes hung out together but isn’t that what you do with friends? It doesn’t mean by any stretch of the imagination you work with all of your friends.
Let me throw some numbers at ya. ("about five dozen") we’ll call it 60 agents from 5 agencies. If 60 agents invested one 40 hour work week at the rate of $20 per hour salary in an 18 month long investigation (sorry, I have no idea what these guys actually get paid but $20/hour seems a fair if not low estimate) – the cost of salary alone for this little operation was $48,000.
And they best they could do was that the suspects "conspired", ie. talked about committing a crime?
that’s your tax dollars at work America.
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