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Authorities seize 122 pounds of Ecstasy [NJ]
#7612841 - 11/08/07 09:09 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Feds take down Jersey ecstasy ring November 8, 2007 - northjersey.com
Federal authorities have dismantled an international drug operation run by a 47-year-old Little Ferry man and seized 122 pounds of ecstasy with a street value of more than $5.5 million, officials said Thursday.
The ecstasy seizure is believed to be the largest ever in New Jersey, authorities said.
Fouad Hanna, 47, of Little Ferry, was arrested Monday along with Hanna Abdulkarim, 39, of Palisades Park, and three others from West New York, North Plainfield and Brooklyn. They are all charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess a controlled substance, money laundering and willful possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number that had been shipped or transported in interstate commerce.
In addition to the ecstasy, agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency seized 150 pounds of marijuana, three assault rifles, three semiautomatic handguns, as well as eight swords and several “fighting knives.” Authorities also seized $120,000 in cash.
The investigation began Friday. Authorities watched as a man entered the North Plainfield residence of one of the men, Michael Rodrigues, leaving a short time later with a duffel bag. Authorities searched the bag after pulling the man over nearby, finding 12 pounds of marijuana inside, officials said.
Rodrigues was arrested in Newark later on Friday and told authorities that he sold marijuana out of his house. A search of his house yielded four pounds of marijuana and a Stag-15 semiautomatic assault rifle. The serial number on the rifle had been removed, authorities said.
Rodrigues identified Hanna as the source of the drugs he sold, investigators said. Hanna, who also goes by the name “Freddy,” is a native of Lebanon, officials said.
On Monday, investigators searched an apartment on 27th Street in Union City, finding a black gym back containing about 47 pounds of ecstasy. The resident there said the drugs belonged to Hanna, who had asked to store it there and said the bag contained “medicine.”
Hanna was arrested later on Monday, telling authorities that he also stored marijuana at an apartment on Main Street in Hackensack. A search of that location yielded 140 pounds of marijuana. Hanna also told authorities that he had delivered a bag containing 75 pounds of ecstacy to the West New York apartment of another defendant, Abdel Kanan. Kanan told investigators that he believed the bag contained marijuana.
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Re: Authorities seize 122 pounds of Ecstasy [NJ] [Re: veggie]
#7613040 - 11/08/07 10:13 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I hate it when MDMA and Marijuana is seized.
Meh the MDMA and Marijuana charges aren't as bad as I thought. 1 gram mdma = 5 grams marijuana so 55.45KG MDMA = 277,272 grams marijuana. 277,272 divided by 1000 = 277KG Marijuana.
So he's facing a minimum of five years and a maximum of forty. He probably won't do more than ten.
Edited by wireless (11/08/07 10:36 PM)
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Re: Authorities seize 122 pounds of Ecstasy [NJ] [Re: veggie]
#7613259 - 11/08/07 11:27 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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damn, what is that, like 3/4 million tabs?
sheeeeeyut.
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Re: Authorities seize 122 pounds of Ecstasy [NJ] [Re: wps]
#7613797 - 11/09/07 05:33 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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wps said: damn, what is that, like 3/4 million tabs?
sheeeeeyut.
It would be more like 1/4 million.
Edited by Ojom (11/09/07 05:34 AM)
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Re: Authorities seize 122 pounds of Ecstasy [NJ] [Re: Ojom]
#7614385 - 11/09/07 10:13 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's still a hell of a lot of ecstasy. There are some sad folks somewhere who had to pay a lot more for their shit than they could have.
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Re: Authorities seize 122 pounds of Ecstasy [NJ] [Re: wireless]
#7614639 - 11/09/07 11:04 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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wireless said: I hate it when MDMA and Marijuana is seized.
Meh the MDMA and Marijuana charges aren't as bad as I thought. 1 gram mdma = 5 grams marijuana so 55.45KG MDMA = 277,272 grams marijuana. 277,272 divided by 1000 = 277KG Marijuana.
So he's facing a minimum of five years and a maximum of forty. He probably won't do more than ten.
I'm curious how they came up with those numbers.
One gram of Ecstasy causes as much brain damage as five grams of marijuana, and just as many holes in the brain! Evil MDMA is also five times as dangerous to our communities.
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Re: Authorities seize 122 pounds of Ecstasy [NJ] [Re: Plok]
#7615473 - 11/09/07 02:18 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Isn't he saying that for 1 gram of Mdma you get th3 same charge as 5 grams of Marijuana?
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Re: Authorities seize 122 pounds of Ecstasy [NJ] [Re: Plok]
#7617326 - 11/10/07 12:22 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I hate it when MDMA and Marijuana is seized.
Meh the MDMA and Marijuana charges aren't as bad as I thought. 1 gram mdma = 5 grams marijuana so 55.45KG MDMA = 277,272 grams marijuana. 277,272 divided by 1000 = 277KG Marijuana.
So he's facing a minimum of five years and a maximum of forty. He probably won't do more than ten.
If you look at the federal sentencing guide you will see that there is a system where they convert all drugs to weight in marijuana, then deemed on that weight, you get sentenced to X amount of time. So say a 1g of heroin = 10g marijuana and you have 5kg of heroin. Then the judge looks at the chart and sees that 5000g of heroin-50,000 grams of marijuana= 50kg marijuana. Now of course this is just a guideline and maximum and minimums are determined by each drug. Say for 50kg of marijuana you will do a minimum of 5 but a max of 10. If you are doing a heroin to marijuana conversion it could be more of a 5 year minimum and 30 year max because it's a "heroin" product and not marijuana. It just gives the judge a guideline of how he should sentence. Just google "Federal Sentencing Guidelines" and click the first link and you can get the 90pages of explanation depending on the crime weather its controlled substances, racketeering, money laundering, murder etc.
And whoever said that I said 1 gram of MDMA = 5 grams of marijuana read what I said above wrong. Obviously 1 gram of MDMA is felony possession with intent to sell while 5 grams of marijuana is a possession misdemeanor charge, and many times cops won't even write the ticket.
The equation of 1 gram mdma = 5 grams marijuana is purely for Federal sentencing guidelines. Not the actual crime itself.
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I'm curious how they came up with those numbers.
One gram of Ecstasy causes as much brain damage as five grams of marijuana, and just as many holes in the brain! Evil MDMA is also five times as dangerous to our communities.
Edited by wireless (11/10/07 12:25 AM)
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