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Pair charged with selling drugs out of Occupy Boston tent
By adamg on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 11:15pm
A Boston Municipal Court judge released two people on personal recognizance today after prosecutors detailed how one of them was using an Occupy Boston tent to arrange drug deals at nearby South Station.
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office had asked for $25,000 bail for Isaac Bell of Roxbury because of a prior drug conviction, and $1,000 for Charlene Dumont of no particular address. Although Judge Michael Coyne freed the two pending their trials, he did warn them to stay away from the Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square - where Bell had lived for three weeks.
Prosecutors say police arranged a heroin purchase from Bell after learning of drug sales in the tent city:
On the afternoon of October 21, an undercover officer called Bell's cell phone number and arranged to buy $80 worth of heroin, [Assistant District Attorney Matthew] Fitzgerald told the court. Bell allegedly told the police officer to meet him in front of South Station in half an hour.
The undercover officer was walking through the Dewey Square Park encampment when an unidentified male asked to use his cell phone. The undercover officer told the man that he couldn’t use his phone because he was waiting from a call from Shorty. The unidentified man allegedly said that he was also waiting for Shorty who "had the best heroin around and the high would last about twelve hours."
A uniformed police officer saw a man matching Bell’s description go into a tent in the Dewey Square Park encampment. The undercover officer called Bell again to verify his presence in the encampment. Bell allegedly said that he was "bagging it up now" and to wait at the front entrance of the South Station train terminal. At that point, Dumont allegedly approached the undercover officer and said, "He's in the tent putting it together right now…he'll be right over."
Prosecutors say the cop and Bell both walked into the men's room and into adjoining stalls. The cop passed $80 under the wall and Bell handed over the drugs, according to the DA's office, which says Bell was arrested when he returned to his Occupy Boston tent.
Bell and Dumont were both charged with single counts of distribution of a Class A drug, conspiracy to violate drug laws, possession of a Class A drug, and two counts each of a drug violation within 1,000 feet of a school or park. Bell was additionally charged with distribution of a Class A drug as a subsequent offense.
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No mention of the 6 yr-old living with heroin dealers at Occupy?
Sheesh, with no mention of the 6 year-old who was present in the heroin dealer's tent down at Obamaville, I was beginning to think this was a separate incident. Any reason why you left out that rather astonishing detail, Adam? What do they think, it's the David Kennedy Greenway or something?
Between the graffiti, child neglect and drug distribution, at least "Occupy" is staying in the news.
Obamaville Your ignorance
Your ignorance would be cause for pity if you weren't a police officer. Instead, it is frightening.
I'm pretty sure it's a twist onHooverville
in which case he made proper use of the term. Who's ignorant?
Apparently these two drug
Apparently these two drug addicts were dealing dope - or at least one of them was - and had a kid.
I don't understand why having a kid while feeding an addiction is an outrage. There are plenty of alcoholics feeding their addiction and raising their kids in a toxic environment.
But it is refreshing to hear a conservative express concern for a human that has left the womb.
That would be Reaganville
Or Dubyaville. Take your pick. You need only look at the inflection points where the economy started taking slides, debt went up, banks started to fail from lax enforcement, and when the rich started getting richer and richer and the middle class began to disappear.
Obama got left holding the bag.
Arguably Hoovervilles should have been Coolidgetowns
or Hardinghamlets. Hoover didn't cause the crash of '29, but ineptly responded to it. The term is relevant in the sense that they cropped up during Hoover's term, and these are cropping up during Obama's. I agree you can go a few different routes, such as naming them for the President most responsible, but considering the original variant of the term dealt with the contemporary Whitehouse occupant, it is not without logic to use the term today, but interposing the current occupant's name.
Call them what you will
it's a distraction from the point:
Obamaville
I read in the paper that many of the Occupy places were calling themselves Obamavilles. Maybe you should read the newspapers a little more, Ron Mexico. It looks like the ignorance is with you.
It is pretty funny that they are giving themselves this name, since the Hoovervilles (probably the origin of the Obamaville name) were encampments that protested Hoover's policies that caused financial distress for the citizenry. These poor deluded folks don't understand the aptness of their Obamaville name.
Don't be so sure they don't understand the name
The Occupy [Fill in name] people are hardly in love with Obama; anybody who thinks otherwise hasn't actually talked to any of those folks.
Wait, did Obama usher in the Great Recession?
I thought the economy crashed in the fall of 2007 when Bush was President, the economy was losing 750,000 jobs a month, and the Treasury Secretary said: Bail out the banks with $.8 Trillion or you'll all die.
Not Obamavilles, Bushvilles.
...and...
And since taking the most money from Wall Street in a political campaign to date, Obama has gone on to largely ignore the faults and problems of the banking industry (without reinstating Glass-Steagal, Frank-Dodd is a toothless piece of crap).
Split the difference. Call them Bushbamavilles (rolls right off the tongue).
Except that any banking reform legislation
would have to be passed by Congress before Obama can sign it into law.
And why isn't such legislation being passed? The answer can be summarized in three letters G - O - P
Congress's failure to lead
Absolutely. The Congress has a mandate to lead on legislation and has so far refused to do so in a lot of ways. I in no way feel they take any less blame. However, the Presidency (for better or worse) is a bully pulpit. The pressure has NEVER been pushed onto Congress to produce anything. If anything, Obama has been a constant RELEASE valve for any public pressure by always hoping to "compromise" his way through their mired mire and letting them appear to have "come around" to doing something because he's buckled to their demands. It's like watching a split squad scrimmage where both "teams" are still wearing Wall Street's jerseys regardless of whether the score is 5-1 or 1-5. So, we can give Boehner some credit for these problems too to be sure.
That makes them Bushbamaboehnervilles. Happy?
Not sure the bully pulpit would work
I think we are in a peculiar era, where Congress sees itself not as a third but equal branch, but as the "loyal" opposition. Newt Gingrich himself borrowed this phrase from the British back when he was House Speaker, so it's clearly how he saw the institution. That is, to say, that Congress views its role as one that opposes the President. I don't think Obama can get anything through Congress by lecturing or moralizing them. If you look at the times he has tried this (which he has, on occasion), it always hardened Congress' resolve.
Add to this a GOP leadership that is congenitally incapable of even appearing to work with the President, and you get what we have today. I don't think you can lay this on Obama. That said, I still think the term Obamaville is the correct choice, for reasons I've already posted.
Success watering down Wall St reform
is squarely on Scott Brown and GOP.
Holy Petticoat Junction, Batman!
I thought y'all we're saying it was a takeoff on HOOTERVILLE.
Yeah, I'm embarrassed.
Yeah, I left it out because I'm part of the Conspiracy
Either that, or:
I'd just gotten home from a three+ hour School Committee meeting, had two posts to write up from that, saw somebody'd been murdered and then I spotted a press release from the DA's office about the drug arrests and wrote that up and the DA didn't mention the kid, and so neither did I, simply because at that point, I might not have been in the best shape for anything other than auto-pilot.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that Dan Conley is not a founding member of Occupy Boston and that the press release under his name does not mention the kid because that is a custodial issue being handled by whatever it is they call the child-welfare agency these days (DCF?), not the court system.
O-FISH-L's interest in reporting the kid
is the PR aspect. It's easy to assume the kid is in an unhealthy and irresponsible environment but, we know nothing about how the kid is cared for. It's likely that during a nod, the kid is neglected but otherwise it could be a loving relationship - we don't know.
I don't know how the guy and girl ended up getting hooked on heroine but they didn't abandon the kid along the way. That tells you something.
What we do know is that the other people in the Occupy Boston encampment are happy not to have a drug dealer attracting addicts.
The homeless that live among the aspiring young professionals (yes there are 20+ year old college grads living in Dewey Sq who have have suits and go on interviews) ... the homeless have integrated into the camp. They work side-by-side with young aspiring professionals doing the chores like dish washing, food prep, etc.
Early on, Occupy Boston establishing Dewey Sq would be drug and alcohol free. I'd be interested to learn how they plan to enforce it.
Yeah,Adam! You commie pinko!
Yeah, wossamattaforu?! It sucks when you are not the all seeing, all knowing oracle of all things Beantown you pretend to be!
Anyone who reads this offshoot of Pravda on any given day knows that you are in the bag for these Commies and their drug dealing and fornicating ways. I'm afraid your clever little ruse as a so called "journalist" has gone on long enough, and thank God we have fearless, God fearing public servants like FISH to bring your sordid little conspiracy to misinform innocent Boston residents about what's really going on down there at the corner of Sodom and Gomorrah to light!
Thanks, FISH! You do Dapper proud!
"David Kennedy Greenway". I
"David Kennedy Greenway". I can't believe no one called you out for that bit of poor taste...
South Station
The media all reported they were drug dealing at the camp when in fact the dealing was going on at South Station. The restrooms at South Station are a lot more dangerous than the area around Occupy Boston.
Note where the arrest was made
At his tent at Occupy Boston, where he was allegedly preparing his bags for sale. I've attached a copy of the press release from the DA's office to the original post.
if the arrest happened in Roxbury, not South Station/Dewey Sq
What we have is a drug dealer who found a better corner to work than Dudley Sq.
I bet the folks at occupy boston are happy to have him gone. Would you want a heroine dealer in the next tent?
And for the folks outraged that some drug addicts have kids, what's the alternative? Fall down drunk alcoholics have kids too.
All the hay being made of this arrest makes me wonder if it anyone would even have noticed if the arrest happened in Roxbury and not Dewey Sq.
So... how about the
So... how about the alternative would be to get sober for the sake of your kids? D'uh.
I've been drinking alcohol responsibly for years without issue. I highly doubt one could take heroin for years and still conduct oneself in a responsible manner. Don't you think heroin is a little bit more addictive than a beer or a glass of wine here and there? Let's get real.
Functional Addicts
Oil Can Boyd said something about never drinking during a game?
Functional alcoholics don't drink when they have to not drink - during work, while caring for their kids. Functional addicts, too.
Keep in mind that many addicts hold jobs and keep them for long periods of time ... hard to imagine given our stereotypes.
My father was a "functional" acoholic
And it still sucked. My sister and I grew up with him being often drunk, and saw him assault both of our mothers (yes, she's a half sister). Then he started to really hit bottom, quit jobs, stopped showing up to visit us, disappeared for a close to a year, stole money from us (yes while we were kids. Got a birthday card with money, guess what went missing, hint, it wasn't the card).
Dealing with addicts in any sense is a huge pain. I feel bad for this kid. No child deserves to see their parents in a state of toxication, nor do they deserve to be in a situation like this one.
Just Wow...
I am amazed at how SwirlyGirl's bleeding heart can justify any sort of behavior by anyone, except for like, the T and the City. If you have children, I hope someone calls DSS.
Here honey, wash the needles off.
People are stupid. People are weak. Coddling and justification is what makes them that way.
I say end the Occupy farce, send the kids back to their parents, reposess their iphones, laptops and sell to pay for the cost of police and litter pick up. Oh wow, they fed some homeless people? Maybe they should just volunteer at a shelter instead.
We'll see what happens in about six weeks, when OccupyFrostbite kicks in.
You wash needles with bleach
Unless you have a supply from somewhere - like work. Shows exactly how little you know, anon coward.
In any case, I am justifying and excusing nothing. I won't go into my own family background on that - I was merely pointing out that junkies and alcoholics are all around us.
Sorry that you can only see stereotypes, and not reality coming to bite you in the arse.
Opportunistic homeless
It appears the opportunistic homeless are overtaking Ocupy Boston. As if nobody saw THAT coming. And don't you love how a homeless man has a cell phone to make drug deals? Incidentally, just how does Occupy Boston occupancy work? Can interested new parties just go and set up, or is there some sort of established pecking order and requirements for occupancy?
Cellphones
$20 at CVS and you can buy prepaid cards to load onto them. So yes, I can believe a homeless person can afford a cellphone; like all technology they dirt cheap and disposable now a days.
Can you believe the homeless have a Radio!? A Sony walkman even!
Can you believe they're wearing factory made, linnen clothing??!!!1
OMG!!!
i know right? how could you
i know right? how could you afford a cheap electronic that will help you make money but not afford an apartment in the 5th most expensive real estate market in the country? These homeless people piss me off.. I'm glad I (my parents) worked hard so I don't have to be like them. I'm so much better than them...
"Opportunistic Homeless"? I call them Occupy Hipsters
The homeless who are using the OccupyBoston resources for their own perogatives are the only REAL "hipsters" in Dewey Square.
They were in the 99% before it was cool.
They were unemployed before anyone knew there was a jobs problem.
They were living on the street before anybody'd heard of them.
Thank You !!!!!
Thank You KAZ for pointing this out.
I had picture posted on my facepage that says..
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If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head, and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world.
If you money in the bank, you're wallet, and some space change, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, than you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
if you have not experienced the danger of battle, the agony of imprisonment, torture, or the horrible pangs of starvation. You are luckier than 500 million people alive and suffering
If you can read this message, you are more fortunate than the 3 billion people who cannot read at all.
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I really think this puts everything into prospective. Occupy folks have food in their mouths, tents to sleep in, iphones to tweet on. they can read, they aren't being shot at or starving, are far better off than most people in the world.
Sorry. This is why I just can't support a bunch of trendy hipsters who decided that they wanted "Economic Equality" today. Its like the old adage that says "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth". And these folks really shouldn't.
nuff said
nuff said
Sorry, but you are way, way off on this one
I don't know how much time you have spent around the South Station area before Occupy Boston started there, but these are not the Steinbeck characters you wax so eloquently about. 9 times out of ten when I exit South Station on the Atlantic Ave side I say to myself;
"Fucking junkies"
These are not people who have ended up homeless in that area through economic displacement or through no fault of their own, these are people whose own families have given up on them. They are grifters and thieves, junkies and alkies who live off the good will of people who feel bad for them or people who give them money so that they leave them the fuck alone. They cry poverty, but they always manage to score and the always seem to be able to afford cigarettes. These are the people who reached into my Dad's car on Summer Street and grabbed his iPad and bolted.
And now they have found a new group of suckers to feel bad for them, people who have had little to no exposure to their scams and grifts.
And in this new discovery, they have managed to tarnish a nascent movement, a movement that can work, if it can survive the corporate media who wishes to destroy it and who jumps on every bad thing that these scumbags pull down there.
There is a term for such folks
"Carnies"
I get the impression that, as transient economic opportunities have closed down, more than a few are waiting for the Xmas tree sales to pick up ...