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Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town
#5946327 - 08/09/06 12:56 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/08/08/drug-bust-georgina.html
Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town Last Updated: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 | 9:31 AM ET CBC News
Forty-one people have been arrested — one of whom has since escaped custody — in a major drug bust in a small town north of Toronto.
During a three-month investigation dubbed Project Home, York Regional Police say they have "shattered" a drug trafficking ring in Georgina, a small community located near the southern shores of Lake Simcoe.
A total of 152 drug and weapons charges have been laid, including charges for the production, possession and trafficking of drugs.
Police are still searching for Harry Hardgrove, 27, of Toronto, who escaped custody while being arrested.
The arrests were made over the past three months.
During the operation, police say they seized 700 grams of cocaine, 922 grams marijuana, 1,116 ecstasy pills and $60,000 in cash.
More than 200 Oxycodone pills, the generic version of the painkiller OxyContin, were also seized, as were 672 Prevacid pills, which are used to treat symptoms of acid reflux, and 180 grams of psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms.
Three firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun, were also confiscated.
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: Anno]
#5946692 - 08/09/06 06:55 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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sounds like my kind of people
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: StroFun]
#5946707 - 08/09/06 07:03 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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<<During the operation, police say they seized 700 grams of cocaine, 922 grams marijuana, 1,116 ecstasy pills and $60,000 in cash.>>
WOW, big operation there I hope the pigs are proud of their little bust
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: SuperD]
#5946879 - 08/09/06 09:48 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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and 180 grams of psilocybin
So... I'm pretty sure they really mean mushrooms.
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: ExplosiveMango]
#5947339 - 08/09/06 01:02 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hahaha, 180 grams of psilocybin would be a crazy amount, well not crazy but you know what I mean.....
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: ExplosiveMango]
#5947631 - 08/09/06 02:46 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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ExplosiveMango said:
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and 180 grams of psilocybin
So... I'm pretty sure they really mean mushrooms.
This is standard for the media. It was funny the first 15 times I saw it, but now it's pretty clear that this is, for some reason, the norm for posting about mushroom busts anywhere in north america.
But... why? My guess is that they think it sounds more exotic and illegal than "mushrooms". "Mushrooms" might not sound more illegal than morning glory or datura to an old woman? They probably think saying psilocybin sounds more professional to the average joe. They're probably right.
Now that I think about it, it certainly does appear to be an attempt to make it sound scarier. In the past month, I've come across a number of articles about the psilocybin research. In the titles, and majority of the articles, the substance is referred to as "mushrooms" because it is more recognizable, and not being demonized this time. Psilocybin is usually said once or so in parenthesis for accuracy. But the fact is that (obviously) no one in the study was given any fungus at all. What kind of controlled study would that be? Of course they're given a properly weighed, pure chemical.
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: Anno]
#5947668 - 08/09/06 02:57 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Anno said:
as were 672 Prevacid pills, which are used to treat symptoms of acid reflux,
Damn, nice bust!
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: Anno]
#5950444 - 08/10/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Anno said: one of whom has since escaped custody ..... who escaped custody while being arrested.
HAHAHA. I would have liked to seen that. Im glad someone actually got away! 
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: Anno]
#5951363 - 08/10/06 05:53 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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180 grams of psylocybin? just a few flushes.....
Edited by localground (08/10/06 05:54 PM)
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: localground]
#5957627 - 08/12/06 09:17 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wonder what all the prevacid was for?
We need getacid not prevacid!
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Re: Police 'shatter' drug ring in small Ontario town [Re: Wysefool]
#5958294 - 08/13/06 01:47 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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All of that spread out over 41 people doesn't even sound remotely like trafficking. It sounds more like the busted a small town populated by a few hippies. They ransacked their homes and pooled their stashes together and called it tracing.
27 X pills, 5 oxy pills, 17 grams of coke, less then 1500 dollars, less then 5!! grams of shrooms and not even an ounce of weed and a buttload of antacids.
Its not a small amount of X or coke, but Around here when a dealer only has 5 grams of shrooms and not even an ounce of weed, we call that sold out.
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