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Police: Man used commute on 30 bus to prepare bags of pot for sale at Forest Hills
By adamg on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:50am
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Mattapan man Tuesday morning on charges he sold pot to teenagers at the Forest Hills T stop.
Police say Enrico Joseph, 23, would prepare his daily inventory of pot in plastic bags while sitting in his wheelchair on the 6:15 a.m. 30 bus between the Sunoco station on Cummins Highway in Mattapan and the Forest Hills busway. Two plainclothes officers boarded the bus at a stop before his on Tuesday after T police received a number of anonymous complaints from annoyed passengers and at least one bus driver:
It has been reported that on numerous occasions while on the bus Enrico Joseph has marijuana in plain view of other passengers as he appears to be putting small amounts of the marijuana in individual plastic bags. Once at Forest Hills Station it was reported that Joseph would meet up with various young men who appeared to buy the marijuana from him.
Police say the officers went into the station and watched as Enrico went behind an ATM twice and handed a teen a plastic bag containing several smaller bags. When Enrico went behind the ATM again and appeared to sell another kid some pot, he and the first teen were arrested on pot-distribution charges, police say.
Innocent, etc.
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I crossed paths with this guy
I crossed paths with this guy and 5-6 high school aged kids on the gravel "Blackwell Footpath" across from FH twice over the past two weeks, not trying very hard to hide the fact that they were smoking up before school. That's some nerve to pull it out right on the bus though!
Its Crazy
Every day i see kid skipping school and MBTA cop sitting there. Sometime these punks have the nerve to smoke right at the taxi stand.
me too
I've crossed paths with him on that same footpath while running in the morning. A guy in a wheel chair surrounded by high school kids smoking at 6:40am. Interestingly, there has been a lot of weed smoking lately in public by what look to be high school kids. I can smell it on them on the subway as well. Seems like the normal post bake orange line breakfast is a bag of doritos and some bright blue juice.
Glad to see the disabled...
not relying on the state for his daily bread. Oh, wait, now I wonder how much it costs the taxpayers for special needs prisoners?
I don't understand the point
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Are you suggesting prisoners with special needs should be given less adequate care in prison because it costs the state more money to care for them?
No, the point I was trying to make is
that it costs more for the state to care for them,which makes it even stupider to throw a disabled person in jail for selling weed.
Ohhh. That makes more sense.
Ohhh.
That makes more sense.
Do you know this dude?
Because before Adam posted the info about how he has a fairly recent brain and/or spinal cord injury with upper extremity involvement, all we knew was that he was a chair user. A good deal of chair users wouldn't qualify for disability payments anyway, because they're perfectly healthy and intelligent, and many don't have any special medical costs beyond needing equipment tuneups. Those are some pretty ignorant comments to make based just on knowing that he uses a wheelchair.
What's the problem?
He was multi-tasking!
More reasons to legalize it
Pot is easier for many teens to get than alcohol.
Legalize it.
Sell it like alcohol and tobacco are sold.
Tax it.
Keep it out of the hands of kids.
Um, but...
I'm with you up until the last point.
Given how totally unsucessful we are at keeping booze out of the hands of kids, and rather force them to drink in secret and without any guidance, I've gotta call foul on the notion that we can actually keep kids away from the stuff, legal or not.
More successful than with pot
If you have some teens in your life, ask them honestly what would be easier for them to get.
The answer might surprise you. Pot isn't just freely available due to its illegality - it is cheap!
Parents can also serve their own kids and grandkids wine or beer - legally. For those who chose to do so, it is a very good way of teaching responsible drinking in a safe environment. You can't do this with weed when it is illegal for everyone in any circumstance.
Cheap? Really? Can your kids give me the number of their
dealer, because I'm paying 250 a half for kind....
...
A scoche more than what I pay, but that sounds about right. Of course, I'm getting delivery. Worth a lot right there.
Funny you should mention that
Just started using SR myself for delivery!
probably crap stuff
I mean, sold by kids to kids ... don't know the oregano level, either.
All the same, it is cheaper than buying alcohol when you don't have an ID and need to pay somebody a fee to get it for ya.
You need to find yourself a CSA-type arrangement if you want decent stuff at a lower price.
Getting a buyer isn't only way to buy booze
Without an ID.
Stores that deliver and stores that sell to kids no questions asked both exist. Also budding entreopeneurs will steal parents' booze and resell it to peers.
Yea dickoff
Cuz u have "I'm a sucka, chump" written all over you! F-ing Joker!
Must you?
There are other venues for screaming your head off.
Weed Price
Wow, we used to buy a lb. for $99.00, and an ounce would sell for 12 bucks! Talk about inflation, and that was in the late 70's.
I *think* we agree...
Pot should be legal.
Kids should be able to imbibe in both pot and booze in properly adult supervised situation.
Yes? Then we're all good. :)
It's very simple
You buy alcohol at a liquor store.
You buy pot from another kid.
Which one is easier if you're a kid?
Looks like he was singled out
Looks like he was singled out by the BPS for an academic honor five years ago to the very day:
http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/news/mayor-meni...
That's a shame.
So good to know
he turned his life around and was using the T as his office. Perhaps he'll get more chances to turn his life around and one these days, it will stick.
reliable pot dealers
theres no such thing. liquor stores are very reliable.
Sorry to disappoint you...
I've had the same guy for 15 years...
Youve had the same guy for 15
Youve had the same guy for 15 years and he charges you 250 for a half ounce? You're almost paying double price...
250 a half...
should guarantee a reliable source. when you're paying 150 an oz for the low quality stuff you're usually depending on some out of work electrician with four cell phones and a coke problem who is hard to get a hold of.
i quit over a year ago but i got my smoke on every night and i found that the expensive stuff didnt get me much higher than the low end shit. it def smelled and tasted better but i was more into quanity than quality. i grew up smoking the project weed so maybe its just me.
It's always easier to get alcohol...
Because drug dealers can get both. But parents and packies usually only have alcohol. Alcohol is everywhere, pot is not.
Been in a high school lately?
My husband taught at the Voke, my son's a sophomore.
Both they and my son's friends confirm that weed is the easiest and cheapest thing to get.
Even my younger one has been offered joints for sale by other kids in middle school.
Makes sense when it is kids selling to kids and much easier to buy/sell/hide a joint at school than it is a 40 ounce.
Ive been in a high school every day this year.
Or almost every day. I've talked to hundreds of kids from 40 different high schools about drugs and alcohol.
It depends on the school. Dover-Sherborn kids have parents that won't miss a bottle from the liqueur cabinet, while Madison Park kids aren't going to drink the hard stuff anyway. Kids in general are still more worried asking, buying, or accepting weed than they are alcohol at a party or at school. High school weed dealers also tend to have small client bases which don't tend to expand to every kid who wants a joint. Older brothers and sisters and their friends are often easy sources of alcohol, and the comfort level with alcohol is still more prevalent than it is with weed. Suburban high school parties end up having hundreds of kids with unlimited supplies of alcohol.
Cheapest? Sure it depends on how you look at it. Does a joint get you the high you need that 2 beers won't?
Agreed, basically
With my adolescent clients, the urban/urbanish ones tend to be more into weed and find it easier to get, while the suburban ones have plenty of hookups for alcohol.