Drug dealers name heroin after President Obama

[proud2BlibKansan]

Sheriff's deputies and investigators have broken a heroin distribution ring that dished out narcotics across more than half of Sullivan County.

A total of five men and women were arrested Wednesday night following a three-month investigation, during which undercover police purchased decks of heroin from street dealers. Undersheriff Eric Chaboty said the dealers were selling heroin in towns that stretched from Monticello to Livingston Manor.

The alleged dealers were pushing a variety of heroin that they called "Obama." Chaboty said dealers are known to stamp the glassine wax paper that carries the heroin with brand names — like "Black Death" or "Blue Sunshine" — so that users can identify their preferred brands. This drug ring's stamp happened to carry the new president's surname.

"It's an absolute disgrace," Chaboty said.

more . . . http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090123/NEWS/901230343

[saigon68]

1. Ah Yes the "War on Drugs"

Got a dollar to hire more "crime Fighters"

and 2 dollars to build "a new Prison"

[Danger Mouse]

2. Ah for the love of...why does this kind of shit always happen in Sullivan County?

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Where is this?

I found the article online but didn't investigate where it had happened.

[Danger Mouse]

5. Upstate New York. Real fucked up area.

[Muttocracy]

7. I was astounded by the amount of drug cases when I had jury duty upstate. nt

[customerserviceguy]

10. It happened a lot when I was living in rural WA state, too.

People get bored, drugs and drink take some of that away. There are not a lot of well-paying jobs out in the boondocks, and there are enough ways to keep yourself out of sight while conducting drug-producing and distributing activities.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. My mom used to travel there for her job

She said it was a beautiful area but the people were odd. They made fun of her because she lived in Kansas. They called her a country bumpkin. She said she had to fight the urge to tell them she lived in a large metropolitan area and the nearest farm animals were a lot farther away from her house than they were from where these people lived in upstate NY.

[firedupdem]

4. This will be on fox and politico tomorrow...

with some kind of hint that President Obama was palling around with these drug dealers.

[Uzybone]

6. Not too surprising

Drug dealers always name the product after something well known at the time. WMDs, Saddam, Bin Laden, 911 have all been used as street names for heroin.

[Muttocracy]

8. what if they get picked up by wiretapping and arrested as terrorists?

Should they use more innocent terms? :shrug:

[Runcible Spoon]

11. well the acid and the X usually have names that are more fun

Sunshine, windowlicker, red devils, mitsubishi little mermaid,..use your imagination