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motaman
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Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth
#10845065 - 08/12/09 11:13 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth By Jennifer Squires Posted: 08/12/2009 01:30:53 AM PDT
SANTA CRUZ -- The manager of a sober living environment and two of his three tenants were arrested on drug charges after sheriff's narcotic detectives raided the Seabright House and found methamphetamine worth nearly $1,000 Tuesday afternoon.
Detectives believe the home manager, Donald Peter, was selling meth at the house and acting as a dealer for some of the SLE residents, who must stay clean to live in the house, according to Sgt. Mark Yanez, who oversees the Sheriff's Office drug investigation team.
He called the situation "sad" and that he sympathizes with the SLE tenants arrested in the bust.
"It's extremely hard to overcome drug and alcohol abuse. ... If you have a good home manger and some good structure and oversight and accountability, you have some chances of successes," Yanez said. "When you have no oversight and the management of the home is selling meth, what chances of success do you have?"
Detective Pete Hansen got a tip that someone might be selling methamphetamine at the house, at 114 Park Ave., and obtained a search warrant for the property, according to the Sheriff's Office. Detectives and agents from the county's Anti-Crime Team raided the home at noon Tuesday.
The investigators seized 16.6 grams of methamphetamine, which is worth $60-$100 a gram on the street, Yanez said. One gram is five to 10 hits, he said.
They also found indications of drug sales, including $300 cash, used needles and other drug paraphernalia, Advertisement illegal weapons, brass knuckles and a ninja sword, Yanez said.
"It's just a bad situation," Hansen said.
The manager, Peter, 47, was arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine for sale, maintaining a place where drugs are used and sold and possessing an illegal weapon. He has prior felony narcotics convictions, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Three other people were also arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of methamphetamine and booked into County Jail: residents Brian Agnone, 29, and Laura-Jean Liles, 45; and Alycia Dunmyer, 18, who told deputies she was just visiting the house. Agnone was also arrested on suspicion of violating his probation, the Sheriff's Office reported.
Another visitor, Edgar Ferrer, 32, was arrested on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia and a probation violation, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Yanez said the home had drug test kits, which residents typically must use to show the house manager they are maintaining their sobriety. At most SLEs, residents can be kicked out after one or two dirty tests, but it's unclear how much oversight the SLE had, according to the Sheriff's Office.
"This one obviously was not being quality controlled very well -- especially when the manager is selling the drugs," Yanez said.
Yanez said detectives were still trying to reach the homeowner late Tuesday afternoon. It wasn't immediately clear if the Seabright House was privately owned or state-run, or if the facility was one of the approved drug treatment programs utilized by the local court system.
http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_13042260
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: motaman]
#10845110 - 08/12/09 11:22 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fucked up. it's one thing to arrest the manager, yeah sure that's probably the one time i would condone arresting someone for drugs.
but arresting the Sober Living tenants? I don't know if you guys know about the treatment/recovery process but people in Sober Living are addicts trying to get clean. what the fuck do they expect to happen when the house manager starts dealing tweak?
addiction is a mental disorder. I know, i'm an addict, benzos and opiates being my drugs of choice (along with weed). i don't agree with the idea of a "disease" because it's not contagious or some weird shit. but if you take someone who's addicted, place them in a supposedly "safe" environment (which Sober Livings normally are) and then surround them with drugs... what the fuck do you expect to happen?
then the pigs come and arrest the tenants who are doing what their brain is telling them to do. fucked up.
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: silosighbin]
#10845131 - 08/12/09 11:26 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Whats funny is their spots in that sober house have been thrown up on Santa Cruz craigslist. If only I was sober I could rent in the former meth house... Seabright neighborhood is awesome too
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: xceses]
#10845556 - 08/12/09 12:32 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Cancer isn't contagious either but its a disease, Im addicted to bennys and opiates to and even when I'm clean for years it could surface again like cancer or some shit, its fucked up how long it takes to get clean and then how quick you can get just as bad, truly horrible.
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: motaman]
#10846802 - 08/12/09 03:21 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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what is truly sad is that all it takes is "suspicion" to raid a house. police dont have to investigate shit anymore, any judge will give the okay to do a raid that in the past would have taken some actual proof. It is unclear how many innocent people have had their homes raided just out of someone elses revenge.
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: pasucks]
#10846938 - 08/12/09 03:39 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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pasucks said: Cancer isn't contagious either but its a disease, Im addicted to bennys and opiates to and even when I'm clean for years it could surface again like cancer or some shit, its fucked up how long it takes to get clean and then how quick you can get just as bad, truly horrible.
Yeah, it's like remission... i guess disease is a good word, idk. I've been through recovery and i've been off benzo's and opiates for 51 days today, it's weird but weed has been helping me
i don't subscribe to the "you can't smoke weed" thing about AA/NA/etc. because plenty of people in the anonymous programs smoke cigarettes and those are way worse for you and way more addictive than weed, and have no redeeming value to them.
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: Cannabischarlie]
#10847093 - 08/12/09 04:00 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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what is truly sad is that all it takes is "suspicion" to raid a house.
If that is all they had, the warrant could easily be quashed and the charges would be dropped.
I think its very likely that one of the people who was staying there narc'd him out. He should have seen that coming.
If all they have is suspicion, they usually check the garbage to get the evidence they need to get a warrant.
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i don't subscribe to the "you can't smoke weed" thing about AA/NA/etc. because plenty of people in the anonymous programs smoke cigarettes and those are way worse for you and way more addictive than weed, and have no redeeming value to them.
Drugs are bad, so they drink coffee and smoke cigarettes like they are going out of style.
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#10847110 - 08/12/09 04:03 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Alan Rockefeller said: Drugs are bad, so they drink coffee and smoke cigarettes like they are going out of style.
haha yeah go figure. but I mean if you're a recovering addict it's the least they can let you do i guess, i mean technically you're not supposed to use ANY mind-altering substances but people don't consider cigs and coffee mind-altering (which they aren't but they're still drugs)
Free coffee doesn't hurt though.
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: motaman]
#10910815 - 08/22/09 10:10 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yo, I used to live at this exact same house. I was spun out of my freakn' brain at the time, but now I've moved out to a sober living house in San Jose. Something you guys are over looking is that most sober living houses, everyone is an addict. I'm talking about the people who own and lease the house, to the manager, to the other addicts living as actual clients.
And with all addicts everyone is prone to relapse. Donny is a good guy, he replaced the other manager we used to have. That other dude would go on bad ones and just bounce. It doesn't really matter how good a guy Donny was, because all you guys hear is how he got the house raided <<<because somebody probably -SNICHED->>> and not how he was fighting with his own disease, and struggling with his own addiction.
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: SeabrightSLE-J-BOY]
#10911903 - 08/22/09 12:48 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Donny shouldnt have been selling meth at his own halfway house
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Re: Manager of Santa Cruz sober living environment suspected of dealing meth [Re: 2859558484]
#10922127 - 08/23/09 07:17 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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wowitch17 said: Donny shouldnt have been selling meth at his own halfway house
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