Tag Archives: Drugs & Vice

Drone drops drugs into Ohio prison yard, inmate brawl ensues

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“It’s not quite the drone-delivery business model that Amazon is planning to offer.  But a drone carrying heroin, marijuana, and tobacco dropped its payload over a prison yard crowded with inmates, causing a brief melee before authorities stamped out the brawl with pepper spray, according to ODRC.  Local media reported Tuesday that the July 29 melee at the Mansfield Correctional Institution began moments after a drone let loose with the goods. At least nine inmates began fighting over the package while other inmates rushed toward the brawl.  None of the inmates are believed to have gotten away with the 65.4 grams of marijuana, 6.6 grams of heroin and 144.5 grams of tobacco.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/drone-drops-drugs-into-ohio-prison-yard-inmate-brawl-ensues/

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Mississippi Cops Hogtie and Kill ‘Widespread Panic’ Concertgoer

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“A video has surfaced of Mississippi Police killing a concertgoer attending the Widespread Panic performance Saturday night in a story covered earlier today by PINAC News.  The video below shows the last moments Troy Goode is seen in public, dead or alive. The witnesses recorded this video and made commentary indicative of a less than serious moment, until seeing that the 30-year-old engineer was hogtied, which their video confirms visually.  Then Southhaven police demanded they stop recording.  The witnesses even expressed fear that recording the incident would cause police to arrest them as bystanders. And they did not have the sense to record horizontally.”

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/07/video-mississippi-cops-hogtie-and-kill-widespread-panic-concertgoer-demand-witness-put-the-camera-down-next/

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There’s a Good Chance Your Bank Is Committing a Major Crime Right Now

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“You probably will be very surprised to learn who aided and abetted the drug operation: it was US banking giant Wachovia.  After an investigation that took years, Wells Fargo, which now owns Wachovia, paid a $160 million fine to settle the case. You might also be surprised to hear that Wachovia’s fine wasn’t an isolated case.  Citibank was caught laundering money for a Mexican drug kingpin in 2001.  American Express Bank admitted to laundering $55 million in drug money in 2007.  And the FBI accused Bank of America of helping a Mexican drug cartel hide money in 2012.  You’ve probably never heard these stories before. The big banks pay a lot of money to keep it that way.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/theres-a-good-chance-your-bank-is-committing-a-major-crime-right-now

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The Fed Joins the War on Drugs

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“The Federal Reserve is now in the business of enforcing the US government’s drug laws, even if that means making a mockery of both state governments’ right to set their own drug policies and the Fed’s own governing statutes.  The Fed’s involvement in drug prohibition became official last month, when the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City informed Denver’s Fourth Corner Credit Union — a non-profit cooperative formed by Colorado’s state-licensed cannabis manufacturers — of its decision to deny its application for a master account. The Fourth Corner Credit Union isn’t taking this sitting down. On the contrary: it is suing the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/the-fed-joins-the-war-on-drugs

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Drug dog that’s barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough

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“In U.S. v. Bentley, we see just how damaging the Harris decision really was. Lex, the drug dog that searched Bentley’s car, had a 93 percent alert rate. That is, when Lex was called to search a car, he alerted 93 percent of the time. He was basically a probable cause generator. His success rate was much lower, at 59 percent. That is, the police actually found drugs just six of the 10 times Lex told them they would. That means that four of every 10 people Lex alerted to were subjected to a thorough roadside search that produced nothing illegal.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/federal-appeals-court-drug-dog-thats-barely-more-accurate-than-a-coin-flip-is-good-enough/

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Jacob Hornberger: Dealing with the Cops

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“The mindset that cops have toward citizens — that they are the masters and we are the servants — clearly poses grave risks to the citizenry. If a person attempts to clarify that it’s the cops who are the servants and the citizens who are the masters, he might well find himself in jail or even dead. Like I say, everyone — but especially African-Americans — has to do some serious soul-searching on how to deal with the cops: Will I assert my rights and demand to be treated with deference and respect or will I keep my mouth shut and submit to abuse, insults, and mistreatment?”

http://fff.org/2015/07/29/dealing-cops/

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Only in NH: How to Ferment a Nano-Brewvolution

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“A nano brewery is limited to producing 2000 barrels of beer a year. Why 2000? Nobody knows. It’s a nice round number, though. Pint Glass Half Full In the year after the bill passed, more breweries opened in New Hampshire than have opened in any other time in the state’s history, including right after Prohibition ended.  Along the way, we also helped legalize home winemaking. House Bill 253 created a second generation of nano breweries. This license costs an extra $240, but we can finally sell full pints! Governor Hassan signed the bill on July 24, 2013, effective that September. Since then, New Hampshire has seen an explosion of nano breweries, with more on the way.”

https://freestateproject.org/blogs/mover-stories/only-nh-how-ferment-nano-brewvolution

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Someone built a meth lab inside a federal research facility, and it exploded

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“Somebody built a methamphetamine lab inside a federal research facility, and a security guard was injured when it exploded. Chemical & Engineering News reports that the explosion took place July 18th at the National Institute of Standards & Technology, and local police say evidence at the scene is ‘consistent with the production of’ meth. Congress is now investigating how this all happened, because they watched Breaking Bad and are not having it this close to our nation’s capital.  The suspected meth lab, which is located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was built in NIST‘s special projects building, which was sitting empty after scientists concluded their most recent experiment there.”

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/22/9018989/meth-lab-national-institute-standards-technology

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Berkeley’s new soda tax panel begins allocating seized funds

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“A new Berkeley ‘panel of experts’ charged with allocating money collected from the city’s recently implemented soda tax convened for the first time Tuesday night, electing Jennifer Brown and Xavier Morales as chair and vice chair, respectively.  Brown, a parent and soda tax activist, and Morales, executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, will lead the nine-person panel, officially titled the ‘Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Product Panel of Experts,’ in bi-monthly or monthly meetings that will establish the direction of funding from Berkeley’s new sugar-sweetened beverage tax, which was approved by voters in November.  The soda tax had brought in $116,000 in its first month.”

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/05/20/berkeleys-new-soda-tax-panel-begins-its-work/

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New York Agrees to Pay $5.9 million to Settle Case of Eric Garner

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“Making taxpayers shell out for abuses committed by officers does nothing to pressure departments to reform their use of force. The costs are hidden and dispersed among all taxpayers, and even if a few people read about it in the paper and are annoyed, they don’t have the incentive (or even the mechanism) to force the police department to change officers’s incentives or hold them accountable.  That’s just the way government bureaucracies and unions like it. The problem here is the doctrine of ‘qualified immunity,’ which shields police officers from being held liable for violating people’s rights.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/new-york-agrees-to-pay-59-million-to-settle-case-of-eric-garner

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