Nice Bust
We confess, we like seeing sweeps like these. Federal time is usually hard time, away from Illinois, and almost always 85% or better:
- At least 42 people were charged for their alleged roles in a $3 million-a-year narcotics operation on the city's West Side, according to authorities.
According to federal complaints, James Triplett, 33, ran a heroin operation near Grenshaw Street and Independence Boulevard in the city's North Lawndale neighborhood.
This is one of those highway-loops you hear about once in a while - hop off the highway, loop through the hood to buy your dope and hop back on the highway to the western burbs. Of course, the spot is probably up and running tonight with the usual "under new management" signs and if past history is any indication, North Lawndale should be bracing for an uptick in shootings as the young and restless attempt to seize a business opportunity - openings are so hard to come by in the dope trade.
Nice operation though. Good job.
Nice operation though. Good job.
posted by SCC at 12:11 AM
39 Comments:
And not so far from that secret site that everybody and their cousin knows about. Those condo and townhome owners never knew what they were buying into.
One down and how many dozen more to go?
Gee, I remember back in 2003/2004 being sent to 015 to sit for 8 hours on a corner to prevent drug sales.
Was all that effort wasted?
LOL
3 million a year, what about all the money the Daley clan and our democratic royalty in Crook County fleeced from the city and all of us middle class tax paying residents? small potatoes, and no pension for you greedy police!
The free enterprise system is alive and well in the ghetto.
It's about time! That spot has been running out of control like that for over ten years. Always wondered why narcotics or the Feds never went after those guys. It's not like the main players from that spot kept a low profile. They were always out there.
You're right there, SCC.
When the Feds get involved, it usually means real jail time.
Thanks to all involved for their dedicated efforts.
$3 million a year divided by 42 people is barely $70,000 a year each.
By the time they paid their suppliers and the local politicos off, there is not going to be much left. Might as well get a regular job.
And given how these kind of things are routinely inflated for the media, it seems likely there is nowhere near $3 million a year involved.
Very nice work. Now let's break it down...democratically;
At least 42 community people arrested and $3 mil in community cash eliminated.
What an economic blow to the community, no more high end cars sales so no more buying $15 in gas at the local station which always includes a couple packs of Kools, Flamings and an Arizona.
No distributors selling, so they won't have anymore walking a round money int their pockets so the above applies to them also.
Rents won't be paid, so landlords will be out about $37 a month, they won't get the benefit of redistributed wealth there.
On to the expert analyst;
"We knew what Al Capone was doing, and the IRS got him for tax evasion," McCarthy said. "If we can't solve those crimes, getting the crew for narcotics is just as good in some cases. Especially when we're gonna get pretty stiff sentencing."
What's "We"? Tax evasion? Al Capone? What's stiff sentencing?
– sorry, is this a GMac for Director of the F-B-I tout ?
It will be a few years and we won't hear much if anything about the outcome of this case.
Nice bust though.
I wonder how many of the west side churches will now have to close for lack of funding?
These are social issues, not really crime issues.
I'll bet Rahm is pissed.
There goes millions of dollars out of the Chicago economy. Same as losing a corporate CEO from the city when you put it in a monetary perspective.
We all know that's all that really matters to the clouted ones. The money.
These are the cities entrepreneurs, the job creators, the risk takers trying to make themselves a better life I'm sad to say. The power elite won't admit it tho.
Hey. It is was it is and lord knows corporations and politicians are not creating any opportunities outside of the part-time min-wage slave labor poverty society so...
Yeah, you're right. There are openings for the gangs to bid for now. How much different is it?
Although I suppose that this is great for Hollywood types like Spike Lee who has new material to glorify and romanticize crime and violence, the city trademark.
The front page news today in bold 72 point type and the thrown out of court and reduced sentences on page 242 in 6 point type of tomorrow.
Money talks and corruption walks. Watch it happen
LT Drebin police squared this is what we call a "nice bust!"
http://youtu.be/1S2wjSvX2D8
That's the bust to be involved in!
$3 million a year
What corporation is gonna step up to replace that lost $3 mil. dollars in economic activity eh?
That's how Ali Baba and the Fifty Thieves look at it.
Tax revenue once the money is laundered thru the system to buy smartphones, Nike's and then shows up as campaign contributions.
OMG they are hurting the small business owners..let 'em go! /sarc LMFAO
Thought the Thread was about Kate Upton...Damn!!
"$3 million a year divided by 42 people is barely $70,000 a year each.
By the time they paid their suppliers and the local politicos off, there is not going to be much left. Might as well get a regular job."
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A Chump-ass job working for the Man?
Wouldn't you want to be a thug flashing your money and gunning down the competition?
the illegals selling tamales in 10 make more than that
As you correctly pointed out, interdiction efforts only leads to instablity, which leads to more violence.
Face the facts: the drug war has been a complete failure.
Legalize it.
Tax the shit out of it.
Profits go to police and fire pensions.
For those who say the cure will be worse than the disease, I say this: Try it. If it doesn't work, we can always go back to prohibition.
Call the next case. Not a cop.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
$3 million a year divided by 42 people is barely $70,000 a year each.
By the time they paid their suppliers and the local politicos off, there is not going to be much left. Might as well get a regular job.
And given how these kind of things are routinely inflated for the media, it seems likely there is nowhere near $3 million a year involved.
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That's tax free for a few hours work
These are violent pieces of shit. They deserve what is coming to them. Hopefully they all receive stiff sentences. Yes it is true you must do 85% of your time but what good is it if they only sentence you to five years? This group is responsible for a lot of murder, mayhem and even torture in 011. I'll never forget the day when two years ago I helped with a search warrant in the 10th district. It was a huge house with all of the toys that a high level dope dealer would have. This posh home had a sound proof room in the basement. This room was a torture chamber. It had all of the tools an a whole lot of dried and semi fresh blood. They even had a book on how to torture. I wished we could show photos of this torture chamber to young people. Maybe that would convince them to stay the fuck away from dope dealing and gangs.
Anonymous said...
$3 million a year divided by 42 people is barely $70,000 a year each.
By the time they paid their suppliers and the local politicos off, there is not going to be much left. Might as well get a regular job.
And given how these kind of things are routinely inflated for the media, it seems likely there is nowhere near $3 million a year involved.
6/25/2015 09:36:00 AM
Tru dat, tru dat. But the real money is made by the big time dope dealers. How they end up convincing these idiots on the street level to take all of the risks associated with dope dealing is beyond me.
"You're right there, SCC.
When the Feds get involved, it usually means real jail time.
Thanks to all involved for their dedicated efforts.
6/25/2015 07:39:00 AM"
There's a Thousand entrepreneurs ready to take their place. The Dope trade is the only viable industry in the Ghetto has been for nearly 50 years. To be in Law Enforcement and actually believe the War on Drugs was a worthwhile effort, you'd have to be extremely naive, ignorant or just plain brain dead.
As long as there's a never-ending supply of buyers there will be a never-ending number of suppliers. The War On Drugs: brought to us by Tricky Dick Nixon and still an abysmal failure, 40+ years on into it.
This is the first time drug dealers have been arrested and in such large numbers in North Lawndale, aka: hell. McCarthy is the reason and he should be kept as Superintendent. What kind of thinking are our alderman doing in always replacing the superintendent? By now it should be obvious there are other problems within the department and firing the superintedent is not going to solve them.
$3 million a year divided by 42 people is barely $70,000 a year each.
Gotta agree, that number sounds pretty small...unless they're paying minimum wage. Judging from the confiscated Maserati and the fancy Lincoln Park address that one of the gentlemen was living at, I'm guessing they were taking in more than $3M/yr.
Need more missions like this. Narcotics should all be long term stuff. Give tact guys the tools to 99 cases and do buy bust. Let them do the small stuff. Same thing with gang enforcement. not enough search warrants or 99 work going on. kinda sad actually, but that's on the supervisors.
Man, I have run across the last name "Triplett" so many times in my short career - and never for anything good. Completely unsurprised to see it appear yet again in this story.
Sexy Chick: Is this some kind of bust or what?
Lt. Drebin: Yes, it's very impressive, but we're just here to ask a couple of questions.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
$3 million a year divided by 42 people is barely $70,000 a year each.
Gotta agree, that number sounds pretty small...unless they're paying minimum wage. Judging from the confiscated Maserati and the fancy Lincoln Park address that one of the gentlemen was living at, I'm guessing they were taking in more than $3M/yr.
6/25/2015 03:51:00 PM
Low-level isn't making much, the ones making a hundred or more a year aren't paying taxes on it, so it's worth more, and, yeah, three mil sounds very low. Remember, you don't want to estimate high and have the courts laugh at you; you estimate low and if you find more as you tie up the investigation, that's great for your case.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
This is the first time drug dealers have been arrested and in such large numbers in North Lawndale, aka: hell. McCarthy is the reason and he should be kept as Superintendent. What kind of thinking are our alderman doing in always replacing the superintendent? By now it should be obvious there are other problems within the department and firing the superintedent is not going to solve them.
6/25/2015 03:20:00 PM
You're joking, right? My team took down a crew making that much waaaaaay back in the 80's.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Man, I have run across the last name "Triplett" so many times in my short career - and never for anything good. Completely unsurprised to see it appear yet again in this story.
"Triplett" his long been a name associated with various and sundry acts of assholery in 011.
The War On Drugs: brought to us by Tricky Dick Nixon and still an abysmal failure, 40+ years on into it.
6/25/2015 02:48:00 PM
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Almost as effective as the 50+ War on Poverty which has been successful in ensuring that an increasing segment of society doesnt work, doesnt go to school and lives off the handouts of people who work 8 hours or more a day to pay for their "free shit." Maybe if we did away with all the free handouts we woudnt need to "legalize" everything to "pay the pensions for those greedy cops and firemen."
Need more missions like this. Narcotics should all be long term stuff. Give tact guys the tools to 99 cases and do buy bust. Let them do the small stuff. Same thing with gang enforcement. not enough search warrants or 99 work going on. kinda sad actually, but that's on the supervisors.
Right fool the don't even keep cop killers in prison but they re gonna launch some too bit dealer???
Big deal 43 arrests , another open air drug market was in operation before the offenders first court appearance .
Almost as effective as the 50+ War on Poverty which has been successful in ensuring that an increasing segment of society doesnt work, doesnt go to school and lives off the handouts of people who work 8 hours or more a day to pay for their "free shit." Maybe if we did away with all the free handouts we woudnt need to "legalize" everything to "pay the pensions for those greedy cops and firemen."
6/26/2015 10:09:00 AM
I made the post you referenced. You are 100% dead-nuts on concerning LBJ's WoP bullshit. In my opinion he was the worst president in this country's history in regard to the damage done over the last half-century from his Democrat/Socialist policies. Dick Nixon was on a pedestal compared to him. Hell, maybe Barry Obama is even higher on the foodchain than Johnson.
Maybe it's just me but I don't know why guys are dividing 3 mil with 42 people. This guy's supplier was arrested as well as people he supplied to. They are not on his payroll so 3 mil would not be split with them. Is my math off?
Tru dat, tru dat. But the real money is made by the big time dope dealers. How they end up convincing these idiots on the street level to take all of the risks associated with dope dealing is beyond me.
6/25/2015 01:40:00 PM
It's called starting from the bottom. How do you think the big players got where they are? They were shorties taking all the risks first.
It's great that someone F-I-N-A-L-L-Y did something about this operation! It's been open and obvious for years.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
These are violent pieces of shit. They deserve what is coming to them. Hopefully they all receive stiff sentences. Yes it is true you must do 85% of your time but what good is it if they only sentence you to five years? This group is responsible for a lot of murder, mayhem and even torture in 011. I'll never forget the day when two years ago I helped with a search warrant in the 10th district. It was a huge house with all of the toys that a high level dope dealer would have. This posh home had a sound proof room in the basement. This room was a torture chamber. It had all of the tools an a whole lot of dried and semi fresh blood. They even had a book on how to torture. I wished we could show photos of this torture chamber to young people. Maybe that would convince them to stay the fuck away from dope dealing and gangs.
6/25/2015 01:39:00 PM
M/Fers just don't want to believe the down-side to the dope game.
As for the house your crew hit in 010?
A torture chamber in the basement?
Hmmmm...
Anybody who says Central American/Mexican cartels
aren't moving freely in Chicago is a fool.
Give it time...
The gentle and tender public will soon be reading about freshly peeled and de-contented
human skulls in gift boxes showing up in various places here in Chicago.
The only solace is that when local media starts paying
real attention to this, editorial board members may start
having peeled skulls showing up at their homes and offices
just as is the fashion down yonder way.
We could use the laugh...
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