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 b0red5tiff
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 Raynham police hope heroin sting will show link to OxyContin in youth 
#9098883 - 10/19/08 06:17 AM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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All they had to do was wait for the phone to ring.
Three drug dealers had been arrested, and their $2,000-a-day traveling heroin shop in Raynham and Taunton was closed, police said.
Now, armed with the cell phone the three used to conduct business, investigators were about to see how deeply their poison had polluted the region’s youth.
That afternoon, Oct. 8, seven young people from the area called looking for heroin — none was older than 30, and one was a pregnant 19-year-old from Bridgewater. They were all arrested in Raynham when they came to make the purchase.
“Most people think there’s no heroin in the suburbs, and it’s only an inner-city problem,” said Raynham Police Chief Louis J. Pacheco. “It’s not true.”
Although it is uncommon for drug investigations to target buyers, Pacheco said, last week’s sting was meant to show the public how abuse of prescription painkillers among young people has led to heroin addictions across southeastern Massachusetts.
“The common denominator is they’re all young people and they all started on pills,” Pacheco said. “Kids think pills are not really ‘doing drugs,’ but they are very highly addictive.”
Common painkillers abused are OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan. A single dose can cost $60, Pacheco said, leading many young addicts to eventually move on to cheaper street heroin.
“This OxyContin is unquestionably a highway to heroin,” he said.
The region’s OxyContin and heroin epidemic has been chronicled in The Enterprise’s “Wasted Youth” series of stories. The newspaper found that at least 144 had died from opiate overdoses in the past four years, and that the number of victims has been increasing each year.
Many are under age 25, according to death certificates, and most died from an overdose of heroin. The addicts usually turned to heroin after being unable to afford an OxyContin habit.
Joanne Peterson, a Raynham mother who founded a support group for families of opiate addicts, Learn to Cope, said the Raynham bust was welcome news, but not enough to stop the bleeding.
Peterson learned this week that Gov. Deval Patrick will slash Learn to Cope’s budget by 75 percent, from $100,000 to $25,000.
Expected drops in local aid, also, may force cities such as Brockton, Taunton and New Bedford to cut public safety, she said. Meanwhile, she fears a ballot question in November to lessen punishments for marijuana possession may pass.
“We’re going to take our police off the streets, we’re going to decriminalize drug use and the treatment availability is going to get harder,” Peterson said. “It’s going to get worse — much worse.”
Undercover detectives from Raynham Police had begun to trail the three accused drug dealers in July, aided by the Northern Bristol County Drug Task Force — which includes detectives from Easton, Raynham, Attleboro, Mansfield and Bridgewater.
About a dozen undercover heroin transactions over three months with three men from Taunton — Javier E. Rosa, 30, Jose L. Estrella, 24, and Efrain Rivera, 30 — helped police break their network, according to documents filed at Taunton District Court.
They were all arrested and charged on multiple counts of Class A heroin distribution charges and conspiracy to violate drug laws.
Rivera was arrested at his Highland Street home in Taunton on a warrant for a previous sale, police said. Rosa and Estrella were on their way to a sale and were boxed in by narcotics officers on King Philip Street in Raynham, police said.
Rosa and Rivera were both released on $800 bail the next day, records stated. They are due back in court Nov. 26.
Unable to make $500 bail, Estrella was transferred Thursday to the Bristol County House of Correction, records stated. His pretrial hearing is Nov. 12.
Police said the men instructed undercover officers to meet them in parking lots in Raynham and Taunton, including one shared by a preschool. They would then lead the would-be buyers to a different place to conduct the sale.
This “train” of cars led investigators to dub last week’s bust “Operation Train Wreck.”
After the three Taunton men were arrested, undercover officers answered their cell phone, posing as Rivera, known as “K” by his buyers, police said.
That same day, six people called and “made requests and arrangements” to buy heroin, police said. One car contained two people, according to reports.
Undercover detectives posing as the drug dealers led the customers to an undisclosed location on Thrasher Street, reports stated.
Another team of detectives stopped the cars of the buyers on the way to the site, police said.
All those arrested — charged with attempting to commit a crime and Class A heroin conspiracy to violate drug laws — were released later on bail.
One man from Middleboro faced an additional charge for possession of marijuana. They are all due back in court Nov. 26.
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Green_T
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Re: Raynham police hope heroin sting will show link to OxyContin in youth [Re: b0red5tiff]
#9099534 - 10/19/08 01:00 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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flameclown
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Re: Raynham police hope heroin sting will show link to OxyContin in youth [Re: Green_T]
#9099713 - 10/19/08 01:57 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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i agree that prohibition of soft drugs makes prescription drugs all the more alluring. hell prohibition of alcohol to minors makes marijuana more available and thus a more likely source of relaxation. there were many times in my youth my friends and I pitched together cash for beer and couldnt find anyone to buy it for us, so we called are dependable dealer. dealers makes drugs simply more available than regulatory offices.
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 woo20
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Re: Raynham police hope heroin sting will show link to OxyContin in youth [Re: flameclown]
#9101903 - 10/19/08 11:25 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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my friend right now is battling opiate addiction. he is bangin em. and my other friend died this time last year. they both startd out on oxy...
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woo20
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Re: Raynham police hope heroin sting will show link to OxyContin in youth [Re: woo20]
#9101917 - 10/19/08 11:29 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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opiates are the worst drugs possible to be addicted to. i was in the dope scene for a while. i was a dealer. i snorted quite a bit but i never got addicted. i saw so many people get addicted. i finally quit when a 15 yr old girl tried to have sex with me for drugs. (i swear i didnt do it). i felt like i was selling my soul. anyway, i left the city and am not selling drugs. opiates are bad. if cops are getting them off the streets. bravo.
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Re: Raynham police hope heroin sting will show link to OxyContin in youth [Re: woo20]
#9102697 - 10/20/08 03:26 AM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Opiates do enslave the mind, but is locking up addicts going to do anything thing?
I dont know thinnk so.
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