Can You Tell Dough From Cocaine?

[JBeukema]

Antonio Hernandez Carranza took a wrong turn, and it turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes he's ever made.The Carson, Calif., man had driven more than 2,000 miles — three days straight — to see his sister in Johnson City, Tenn.
But instead of reaching the home of his sister, whom he hadn't seen in nearly a decade, the 45-year-old carpet cleaner found himself in the Buncombe County jail under a $300,000 bond on charges of driving while intoxicated, failing to heed police lights and sirens and possession of 91 pounds of cocaine.
He was released four days later after sheriff's deputies realized Hernandez, who said he doesn't drink at all, wasn't intoxicated and that what was in the back of his truck was exactly what he had said — $400 worth of cheese, shrimp and tortilla and tamale dough meant as a gift to his sister.

Man jailed for tortilla dough | The Asheville Citizen-Times | citizen-times.com

 

[blastoff]

Tell the difference? Sure it's easy. You try snorting dough sometime and see how well that works out.

 

[Douger]

Arrested by idiot murkin- former hall monitor.
" Well shiriff Billee, it sure looked like summa that thar cocaine ta me....and he looked like wunna them evul Kulumbeanz."
" Sherf Bille. Didja get summa that flowur on yer mustash " ?" You cummin down wiff a kold ?"
Idiots.

 

[brokenarrow]

Arrested by idiot murkin- former hall monitor.
" Well shiriff Billee, it sure looked like summa that thar cocaine ta me....and he looked like wunna them evul Kulumbeanz."
" Sherf Bille. Didja get summa that flowur on yer mustash " ?" You cummin down wiff a kold ?"
Idiots.

$400 worth of cheese, shrimp and tortilla and tamale dough meant as a gift to his sister.

What a suck ass gift!

 

[waltky]

Africans developing cocaine, heroin addictions...

West Africa Rising: Heroin, cocaine traffickers find more buyers at home
June 21, 2011 - European consumption of South America’s cocaine doubled in the decade. Much of that trade comes through Africa, leaving a trail of domestic users.

Since Colombian cartels first docked here in the early 2000s, the tiny West African country of Guinea-Bissau was supposed to be the crossroads – just the crossroads – of Africa’s booming drug trade, a four-continent-crossing caravan of cocaine, heroin, and war weaponry. More and more, however, this country’s cobblestone capital and the region around it constitute a thing more dreadful: a market. It has become a place to sling crack and hook users. “We have seen a huge increase in crack addiction in West Africa,” says Regional Representative Alexandre Schmidt for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

The tonnage is staggering: The UN estimates that 13 metric tons of cocaine – an $800 million snow worth as much as the entire gross domestic product of Guinea-Bissau – were inhaled in West Africa in 2009, the UN’s last year on record. Those tons were intended, originally, for Europe. They accounted for one-third of the 35 tons thought to have been unloaded that year from the unregistered speedboats, planes, cargo ships, Boeing jetliners – and maybe even submarines – that dock, land, or bubble up onto West Africa as they carry their coke toward Europe’s nightlife. “They are other people’s problems that have been loaded onto our backs,” says Guinea-Bissau’s Attorney General Amine Michel Saad.

The continent’s cities are larger, younger, and flush with more disposable income than ever. Increasingly, drug traffickers – who are often paid in drugs themselves – are finding way to unload their product inside the region’s overcrowded cities, according to the UN. “It’s a huge issue for public health,” Mr. Schmidt says. “We don’t have any treatment centers here.” Or rather, Guinea-Bissau has one: a rural clinic run by an elderly priest.

From South Africa to Europe

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Clinton Heading US Delegation at Central America Drug Conference
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is heading to Guatemala to participate in a conference on the growing problem of drug violence and weapons trafficking in Central America.

Secretary Clinton arrives in Guatemala City Wednesday, leading a delegation that includes representatives from the State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security departments, as well as the National Security Council and USAID. At a briefing this week, Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela said Secretary Clinton has for some time been “concerned about the situation” in Central America. Valenzuela said this trip is part of Clinton's efforts to push for “greater engagement” on the issue of insecurity in Central America.

But Valenzuela told reporters Clinton was unlikely to pledge new aid money during the two-day meeting, saying the secretary would more likely announce “repackaging” of previously pledged assistance. The State Department said in a statement the conference aims to foster greater cooperation among Central American governments, civil society, and private companies in responding to the “grave security challenges” they face, as well as to encourage international support for their efforts.

After the conference, Clinton is scheduled to go to Jamaica for a meeting with Caribbean foreign ministers. The meeting is a follow-up to one last year in Barbados, when Secretary Clinton and members of the Caribbean Community announced a new regional security partnership known as the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. The initiative calls for $124 million to be spent over a two-year period to help countries counter illicit trafficking in drugs and small arms.

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[sitarro]

The guy has been in the United States since 1985 and still can't speak english "that well".......what a surprise.

 

[Mr. H.]

I once bought a gram of drywall dust. No ******* way was I going back into that neighborhood and demand a refund.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Just great - now we gonna have a buncha hop-heads runnin' the streets...

Crack offenders eligible for early release
Thu Jun 30,`11 WASHINGTON – As many as 12,000 people in federal prison for crack-related crimes can get their sentences reduced as a result of a new law that brought the penalties for the drug more closely in line with those for powdered cocaine, a government commission decided Thursday.

The decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission applies to approximately 1 in 17 inmates in the federal system. Congress last year substantially lowered the sentences for crack-related crimes such as possession and trafficking, changing a 1980s law that was criticized as racially discriminatory because it came down extra hard on a drug common in poor, black neighborhoods. The question before the commission Thursday was whether people already locked up under the old law should benefit retroactively from the changes. The six-member commission unanimously decided in their favor.

"I believe that the commission has no choice but to make this right," said Ketanji Brown Jackson, a vice chairwoman of the commission. "I say justice demands this result." The NAACP was among the groups praising the commission's action. About 85 percent of the inmates expected to benefit from the decision are black. The commission's action is final unless Congress decides by the end of October to intervene, and that is considered unlikely.

Prisoners will have to petition a judge for a sentence reduction, and requests will be decided on a case-by-case basis, with the court taking into consideration the defendant's behavior in prison and danger to society. Prosecutors will be allowed to weigh in. The earliest anyone could get out is November. According to the commission, approximately 12,000 of the roughly 200,000 people in federal prisons will be eligible to have their sentences cut. The average reduction is expected to be about three years. Inmates convicted under state law will not be affected.

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[L.K.Eder]

Antonio Hernandez Carranza took a wrong turn, and it turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes he's ever made.The Carson, Calif., man had driven more than 2,000 miles — three days straight — to see his sister in Johnson City, Tenn.
But instead of reaching the home of his sister, whom he hadn't seen in nearly a decade, the 45-year-old carpet cleaner found himself in the Buncombe County jail under a $300,000 bond on charges of driving while intoxicated, failing to heed police lights and sirens and possession of 91 pounds of cocaine.
He was released four days later after sheriff's deputies realized Hernandez, who said he doesn't drink at all, wasn't intoxicated and that what was in the back of his truck was exactly what he had said — $400 worth of cheese, shrimp and tortilla and tamale dough meant as a gift to his sister.

Man jailed for tortilla dough | The Asheville Citizen-Times | citizen-times.com

Buncombe County Sheriff's Office Lt. Randy Smart ...

 

[editec]

He was released four days later after sheriff's deputies realized Hernandez, who said he doesn't drink at all, wasn't intoxicated and that what was in the back of his truck was exactly what he had said — $400 worth of cheese, shrimp and tortilla and tamale dough meant as a gift to his sister

Four days to establish that dough isn't cocaine?!

Okay can anybody tell me why that sheriff, and that police force ought not to be stripped of their legal authority?

I hope this guy sues the every loving crap out of that municipality.

I hope his lawsuit bankrupts Buncombe County.

 

[tonystewart1]

I once bought a gram of drywall dust. No ******* way was I going back into that neighborhood and demand a refund.

Did you ever see that episode of Cops where the lady flags down a cop to file a complaint that the crack she bought aint crack but is just drywall?

 

[editec]

I once bought a gram of drywall dust. No ******* way was I going back into that neighborhood and demand a refund.

Did you ever see that episode of Cops where the lady flags down a cop to file a complaint that the crack she bought aint crack but is just drywall?

Do you know that she was legally-speaking the victim of a crime?

Do you know that cops bust people selling FAKE drugs, too?

I used to know a Boston City Cop (in the early 80s) whose assignment was mounted cop on the Boston Commons and Public Gardens.

He specialized in busting folks who were selling fake drugs.

The real drug sellers paid him off and as long as they were not selling to kids or harassing people he left them alone.

But he came down REAL hard on the fake drug sellers.

Why?

Because they were screwing up HIS rice bowl, that's why.

He reasoned (correctly) that when enough people got burned by fake drug dealers on his beat, people would stop buying from the real drug dealers because they'd no longer trusted the drug scene in his area.

Is America a great nation or what?

Even the BLACK MARKET needs regulating to keep it on the up and up.

 

[tonystewart1]

I once bought a gram of drywall dust. No ******* way was I going back into that neighborhood and demand a refund.

Did you ever see that episode of Cops where the lady flags down a cop to file a complaint that the crack she bought aint crack but is just drywall?

Do you know that she was legally-speaking the victim of a crime?

Do you know that cops bust people selling FAKE drugs, too?

I used to know a Boston City Cop (in the early 80s) whose assignment was mounted cop on the Boston Commons and Public Gardens.

He specialized in busting folks who were selling fake drugs.

The real drug sellers paid him off and as long as they were not selling to kids or harassing people he left them alone.

But he came down REAL hard on the fake drug sellers.

Why?

Because they were screwing up HIS rice bowl, that's why.

He reasoned (correctly) that when enough people got burned by fake drug dealers on his beat, people would stop buying from the real drug dealers because they'd no longer trusted the drug scene in his area.

Is America a great nation or what?

Even the BLACK MARKET needs regulating to keep it on the up and up.

That is funny and true. We need a Department of Narcotics Authentication.