We're not in Florida anymore, Toto

[featherynscale]

I heard on the radio this morning (the NPR affiliate, in case it matters), that a number of drug arrests were made yesterday in KCK. The correspondent said that these arrests and the related drug seizures came after 7 months of investigation, and will break up the drug trade in the city.

They siezed.......................
6 pounds of meth
and 5 pounds of cocaine.

Clearly, this is a major blow to the trade. I almost ran off the road laughing. I'm from Florida, kids. They have to scrape 5 pounds of cocaine off the hubcaps of cop cars in Florida every other week. They just pick it up like road dust. You'd shake 5 pounds of coke out of a college dorm floor on a Thursday. Nobody would even bother to report this on the news at all. So that was fun.

On the other hand, I'm starting to forget where things are, if they're here in the Midwest, or there, in Florida. I mean, some things are easy to place. If you can get grits there, it's in Florida. Sweet tea = Florida. Obviously, if there's ever been a major drug bust there, it's in Florida. But other things, I'm not so sure. I saw a minivan a couple of days ago with a high school sticker on it that I recognized. But from here, or there? No idea. I'm also starting to get things like restaraunts and bars confused. Especially if I haven't been there in a while. Is it that I haven't been there in a while because I just haven't got round to it, or because it's lots and lots of driving hours away? No idea. I suppose this stuff isn't really important, but it is a little alarming.

Comments

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I heard that, and was similarly unimpressed. They even have an Operation name for it...Operation Iceberg, maybe? I don't know -- something fraught with stoopid political psycholinguistic significance.

[kieyra.livejournal.com]

Somehow I'd missed or forgotten that you're from Florida. South, Central?

I think by the time I left South Florida they'd even given up half-heartedly trying to bust the post-media-frenzy "club drug" trade.

[arian1.livejournal.com]

Damn! MY STASH!

Ah well, back to the powered sugar.

[teross50.livejournal.com]

KCK has always acted the, We do major crime over here, Just like 50 in MIsouri does.When in fact they run to press with pennyy anti shit like this and embarass them selves coming off like Barney Fife plying Cojack
There is major wight in KCK Maybe one day they really will make a major bust and they can stop having, Dope envy ,with Missouri. Of course, that would mean working with joco agencies to get the heavy weight suppliers

Hey, it could happen?;-)

lol

[bloodlikerain.livejournal.com]

i guess i'm not sure how much 5 pounds of coke is....lets see.....a eight ball is about 3.5grams, 1/8 an oz.
8- 8balls, times 16, times 5.

wow.

Re: lol

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

a gallon of water weighs 8.26 pounds, so it would be a bag weighing less than that.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

that sounds like half a rave. Even by KC standards that's not much, although we don't have as mush trafficing here. This is an end-destination, not a throughfare. 8-)

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Psht. That's because all the coke is in Johnson County. I think there was more coke than that at Blue Valley Northwest on any given Friday.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's kind of what I'm thinking. In the Old Country, that sort of quantity might not be outside the expected boundaries for Personal Use.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes* Jeeez. Can't they come up with a more creative way to use taxpayer's money? I'm all for the excitement of an undercover mission, but really...that's just sad.

And I can totally back you on the amount down here thing, although I've never been around it socially...I saw it when I got to tour the property room at JSO when I was an ECO1 trainee(911). We were told they were (and presumably still are) making weekly trips to the incinerator to dispose of just all the pot they had confiscated. And what was on hand for that week...pot and other "street" drugs...filled up an entire 10X10 room lined with shelves and under secure lock.