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Police: Raids, arrests in Dorchester, Mattapan bust up citywide drug ring

Seized items.

Boston Police report raids Friday morning at 91 Esmond St. in Dorchester and 108 Greenfield Rd. in Mattapan resulted in six arrests and the seizure of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, Percocet pills, steroids, two loaded guns and ammunition.

Police say the raids came after a two-month investigation that involved both citywide detectives and detectives from West Roxbury and South Boston.

Angel Santiago (a.k.a. Jose Santiago), 32, of Mattapan, Fernando Rodriguez, 33, of Mattapan, Danielle Sullivan, 29, of Dorchester and Courtney Avery, 21, of Peabody were all charged with trafficking class-A drugs in excess of 200 grams, trafficking class B drugs in excess of 28 grams, distribution of class A and B drugs, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.

Jose Santiago, 35, of Mattapan, was charged with conspiracy to violate the drug laws.

Roberto Baez, 24, of Dorchester, was charged with distribution of class A and class B drugs.

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What a huge bust, I'm sure crime has been defeated now. Legalize this sh*t already, such a massive joke--sick of it.

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Not quite complete legalization, because the UN would apparently get upset if they did that. Penalties for possession of less than ten day's worth of most drugs, including heroin and cocaine, amount to a stern talking-to. (The first page of the linked Spiegel article is all background; most of the meat is on p.2.)

It is simply by chance that the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has its headquarters in Lisbon. Frank Zobel works here, analyzing various approaches to combating drugs, and he says he can observe "the greatest innovation in this field" right outside his office door.

No drug policy, Zobel says, can genuinely prevent people from taking drugs -- at least, he is not familiar with any model that works this way. As for Portugal, Zobel says, "This is working. Drug consumption has not increased severely. There is no mass chaos. For me as an evaluator, that's a very good outcome."

The country is also saving a ton of money by not throwing all those victimless criminals in jail.

Now come the American Exceptionalists with their arguments about how it can't work that way here, because we're too big or diverse, or something.

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The worst thing this state ever did was legalize marijuana. I voted to legalize it but that was a big mistake. Now, everyone is driving while under the influence and that is still illegal. The Boston cops do not in force driving under the influence of marijuana. It smells awful and it leads to others to harder drugs like heroin and meth. Legalize weed but take away the average citizens gun rights.......what is wrong with this country?

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I'm sure we would be able to tell if everyone was under the influence.Your commute would be a whole lot mellower.

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The supposed causal link between marijuana usage and the abuse of harder drugs has been debunked for years. For instance, see...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ending-addiction-good/201408/marijuana-the-gateway-drug-myth

The biggest gateway to hard drug usage, IMHO, is the government lying about such things as marijuana. I know, when I was younger, everybody in my neighborhood who had tried marijuana, and found it basically harmless, then connected the dots and thought, "If they lied to me about this, maybe they lied about [fill in some other drug that did have serious consequences]" and then we tried those things.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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"don't take with alcohol" is one of those warnings on script bottles even with the smallest of doses of a narcotic or benzo. No, a beer with 0.5 mg of kpin is not lethal.

The prejudice by government hurts health and science. For example, anabolic steroids and other health enhancing drugs have much potential and some risks, but nobody can get funding to explore them when the government is so against these whole classes of drugs despite having so little research data. So, people again experiment on their own. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, these drugs threaten one of the fundamental institutions of American society- sports. Total anarchy would insue.

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Marijuana still has not been "legalized" in MA. Get it together.

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Sure it is, what so you think a civil citation under an ounce is?

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So, OK, you can possess under an ounce. Now, where do you buy it legally? Or, batter yet, what happens to YOU if you get caught selling it to me? Legal? I think you don't quite know the definition of that word.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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Are Altoids Schedule A or Schedule B?

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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Anyone want to bet these people have a criminal history the length of the phonebook?

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But, then, how big are phonebooks these days?

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I did not at first see those as puddles of pills...I saw them as snowflakes that were a bit off kilter...

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Is that recycled paper hand towel from the bathroom they used as a background to lay stuff out on? Well, kudos to BPD for saving taxpayers money! Homeland Security might have splurged for foamcore or poster board, well if their checkbook wasn't at risk.

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My precaffeinated brain got a look at the picture and immediately called this up from the archives.

http://youtu.be/B6Sg8D2Ci0Q

(Ali G "Dangerous Drugs.")

"Does Class A absolutely guarantee that they're better quality?"

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Burzum. .....i have been so dopesick from heroin that i contemplated suicide. Multiple times, over several years. And i can tell u that Suldog is completely correct, while u sound like every other suburban know-it-all making a fool of themself spouting off on a topic with which u are totally uneducated n inexperienced.

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