Posted on 02/05/2017 1:59:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
It might be called the art of the drug deal: Florida authorities seized scores of individually wrapped heroin packets stamped with the image of President Donald Trump.
As Tampa news station WFLA reports, law enforcement officers seized 5,550 packages of heroin Jan. 27 in Hernando County, culminating a months-long investigation into heroin distribution in the area.
Some of the packets bore the names or likenesses of other notorious figures, such as Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.
Authorities couldn't explain the markings' purpose. Dealers often stamp heroin bags with street "brand names."
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Police arrested 46-year-old Kelvin Scott Johnson on suspicion of heroin trafficking and other charges. His bail is set at $75,000.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said the dealer "made a big mistake" using Trump's picture.
With Obama’s new address on the back ?
YUGE haul.
I’m amazed they can spell
Brown Mexican with a sense of humor?
It’s a shot across the bow.
Hillary wrote the Art of the Delete!
This could have been a marketing tactic to cash in on an ionic brand. Or it may have been a dumb attempt to implicate the president in drug manufacture.
Okay! Editorializing not wanted.
I can understand some drugs as self medication but have never really understood the wretched emotional state that drives a person to heroin.
Nothing new. Heroin dealers have been “branding” their stuff since the 60s or 70s like this, they’ll put anything popular on it to entice the junkies.
Well, it’s probably the same state that drives anyone to drink or any other drug. The difference is once they try heroin, there is very little chance of ever going back.
Nobody would buy “Hillary” brand heroin because they would suspect it was a total fake rip-off :D
Yawn .... other notorious persona like Barry ...
Silly. Everyone knows Jeb! heroin is the best.
Yeah, I noticed that, too.
“Some of the packets bore the names or likenesses of other notorious figures.”
They’re lumping President Trump in with El Chapo and Pablo Escobar?
This piece was written by NBC in the Bay Area, so obviously a left-wing f-—tard wrote that crap.
I know the ‘junkies’ don’t care,but I can’t see any ‘junkie’ actually buying this product.
Don’t they also HATE him?
I made it a point to not by any Billy Beer because I knew it was ‘related’ to JC...
“The art of the delete”. by hildabeast!!!
That’s awesome dragnet2!!!!
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