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4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN]
#5303075 - 02/15/06 12:56 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch February 15, 2006 - pal-item.com
FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind. -- An international drug smuggling plot apparently died on the doorstep of a vacant house along U.S. 27 north in Fountain City.
Local officials expect a Wayne County man to be charged in federal court in connection with the case that involves thousands of ecstasy pills.
Last September, a Federal Express driver delivered a package to the vacant house. With no one home, the driver asked neighbors to keep an eye on the package. Since the house had been vacant for months, they called the landlord.
The landlord notified the Wayne County Sheriff's Department and an investigation began that now has the local man in trouble.
Sheriff Matt Strittmatter has identified a 28-year-old man as the suspect in the case. Strittmatter said the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana will charge the man within the next few days.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's office in Indianapolis said they could neither confirm nor deny that there was any information concerning the investigation in their office.
No charges have been filed to date in the U.S. District Court.
The investigation became a federal case because of the quantity of drugs involved.
The package left on the doorstep had been sent from Frankfort, Germany. Investigators were suspicious so they called in Reko, a drug-sniffing dog.
Reko "hit" on the package. When it was opened, there were 4,000 blue tablets inside.
The tablets were methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), an illegal drug commonly known as ecstasy.
Ecstasy is a "club drug," prized by revelers in nightclubs.
It wasn't known if the drugs were meant for local consumption.
"That's never been clarified," Deputy Mike Lieberman, who is assigned to the Wayne County Drug Task Force, said.
"We don't see too much (ecstasy) around here," Lieberman said.
The 4,000 tablets seized here, "Would have been worth more than $120,000 on the streets," Strittmatter said.
"There was a lot of it," Lieberman said. "We hand counted the pills."
After discovering what was in the package, local investigators contacted the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The sheriff's department, DEA and Richmond police cooperated in discovering how the drugs arrived in Fountain City from Frankfort.
Strittmatter said the man apparently traveled to Amsterdam, Holland, and made contact with a dealer who sometimes sells as many as 100,000 ecstasy pills at a time.
Strittmatter said the suspect had apparently made a previous trip to Amsterdam.
The package of blue tablets was sent to a fictitious name at the U.S. 27 address. The return name was also bogus.
Left on the front porch, it could have been retrieved by anyone in the area.
Sheriff Strittmatter said the man will face a charge of attempting to possess with the intent to deliver the pills, a Schedule I non-narcotic drug substance. Conviction could mean a sentence of up to 20 years and a fine of up to $1 million.
Last month, Michael Niemczycki, 24, was sentenced to 51 months in prison and fined $15,000 for trying to smuggle 2,760 tablets of ecstasy from Frankfort to Indianapolis hidden in stuffed toys.
That case was heard in U.S. District Court, Indiana Southern District.
MDMA is a synthetic "designer" drug with both psychedelic and stimulant effects.
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RESTLESS
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: veggie]
#5303353 - 02/15/06 02:22 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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4,000 e is worth less than 4,000 bucks in the real world, not 120 000
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: RESTLESS]
#5304218 - 02/15/06 06:45 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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"There was a lot of it," Lieberman said. "We hand counted the pills."
You badass mother fukcer!
DEA is getting hardcore man.
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: RESTLESS]
#5304859 - 02/15/06 09:48 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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RESTLESS said: 4,000 e is worth less than 4,000 bucks in the real world, not 120 000
Not retail. If so I want to meet your man. I'm about to get rich.
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: Ekstaza]
#5409483 - 03/16/06 05:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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So, I live close enough to recieve this newspaper. And the story from a guy at work who knows the family is. The previous occupants of the empty house were known drug dealers, thats why the landlord called the cops in the first place. And as it turns out it was the nieghbor ladies son who had them shipped there. Imagine, ratted out by your own mom.
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: llamabox]
#5414617 - 03/17/06 09:51 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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those neighbors aint too smart, they could have been thousands richer.
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: gema]
#5415561 - 03/18/06 10:54 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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or had a life time of good times.
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: Legoulash]
#5415601 - 03/18/06 11:15 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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what a fucking dumb niehgbor, i would have instantly went over and picked the package up just because im a dick.
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: RESTLESS]
#5415619 - 03/18/06 11:24 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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RESTLESS said: 4,000 e is worth less than 4,000 bucks in the real world, not 120 000
yeah id like to know where ur scoring 1$ a pill.. lol.. even at 10$ which is pretty cheap around here.. its worth about 40,000$ i wouldnt venture much higher than that for street value
interesting story thou
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: Banez]
#5415762 - 03/18/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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OHSBrave06, if you had 4,000 pills, you'd obviously be selling in bulk.
Of course, they did say street value, but that's stupid. It's just an attempt to make people look like millionaires to anger readers, etc. It probably *cost* them closer to 4,000. They'd probably sell it in smaller amounts for a little more.
But they aren't going to be selling them hit by hit to raver kids, unless they have even more of a death wish than it already seems. So the end street value is really just bullshit to get people excited.
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: Koala Koolio]
#5428852 - 03/22/06 07:20 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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street value isnt about what whoever got busted for paid for it, or what they will sell it for, its how much its worth in retail...whenever they do marijauna it seems like they do like $40 per each eighth to try and figure it out, its always ridicilous but thats the meaning of street value...
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Re: 4,000 ecstasy hits found on porch [IN] [Re: jenerikcairet]
#5428860 - 03/22/06 07:26 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
the man will face a charge of attempting to possess with the intent to deliver the pills
hahaha, "attempting to possess" sounds like such a bullshit charge
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