Posted on 11/29/2005 10:19:40 PM PST by Nachum
TRACES of cocaine were found on Michael Jackson’s underwear during a police raid, it was revealed yesterday.
The discovery emerged as the troubled singer faced shock new claims that he is abusing and trafficking drugs.
Cops are secretly investigating allegations by former aides that Jacko, 47, is hooked on anti-depressants and painkillers.
They say he pops up to 40 pills a day — and was seen falling flat on his face after injecting himself with a mystery drug.
He is suspected of transporting drugs from California to Bahrain, where he currently lives, and obtaining them with fake prescriptions.
Claims ... cops say Jacko is hooked on drugs
The probe is being led by Santa Barbara’s notorious District Attorney Tom Sneddon.
He is still smarting after failing to convict Jacko on child sex charges in the summer.
A Jackson aide said: “Sneddon still smells blood and is determined to nail Michael.”
The star could face up to 20 years in jail if he is brought to trial and convicted.
But aides fear the strain of a new court battle could kill him.
The investigation centres around a huge stash of prescription drugs seized when police probing the child sex claims raided Jacko’s Neverland ranch in 2003.
The swoop also unearthed the cocaine traces on the singer’s underwear. Residues of the painkiller Demerol and sedative Promethazine were also said to have been on the garments.
It is not known how the coke got there or in what form it was found.
The discovery was not revealed at the child sex trial because cops could not be certain it was Jacko who used the drug. They could not rule out the possibility the underwear had come into contact with maids or cleaning staff.
Jacko made repeated visits to hospital during the trial, suffering from excruciating back pain.
He once turned up in his pyjamas after a hospital visit. He often appeared dazed and on heavy medication. Pals believe he is takes so many painkillers and anti-depressants that he is constantly intoxicated.
The Neverland stash allegedly included bottles of Vicodin, Oxycontin, Versed, Promethazime, Xanax and Valium.
They were in Jacko’s bedroom but had been prescribed by doctors for aides including his assistant Frank Tyson. Police also seized notes from a doctor advising Jackson on how to use an opiate to wean himself off Demerol.
Cops suspected Jacko was using staff to fetch drugs in their own names or under bogus monikers.
They decided not to pursue the drugs case in favour of concentrating on the child sex claims.
But they are now reviewing evidence given by former Neverland security guard Chris Carter.
In papers just released by the Santa Maria court where Jacko was tried, Carter claimed Jacko took up to 40 anti-depressants a day. The transcript of a police interview with Carter, 25, reads:
Carter said he would get Xanax prescriptions at pharmacies for Jackson under different fictitious names including Carter’s own name.
He added that Jackson was taking ten-plus Xanax pills a night.
Carter said he expressed his concerns with Dominic Cascio (a friend of Jackson) and Dominic told him Jackson was doing better because he was down from 30-40 Xanax pills a night.
He said a doctor told him Jackson was addicted to Demerol, but said he was giving Jackson a placebo to wean him off.
He described a situation in Florida where Jackson and a security detail were in a hotel room alone and Jackson fell on his face.
He said he later found out that Jackson was intoxicated and had hurt himself.
Carter — now in jail for robbery and kidnapping — also claimed Jackson smoked pot in a recording studio with Bee Gee Barry Gibb.
Cops on Sneddon’s investigation have contacted doctors who treated Jacko and former Neverland staff. Californian pharmacies that may have dispensed the drugs will also come under the spotlight.
A Jackson aide said: “Sneddon thinks Michael could be getting drugs flown to Bahrain. The investigation is being kept secret.
“But Sneddon is considering whether he can get Michael on charges of conspiracy to export a controlled substance and prescription drug abuse. He hopes to put together a strong case and file it in the next few months.”
Jacko will fiercely deny any drugs charges brought against him.
A source close to his family said last night: “Michael would fight this in court. But none of us knows if he could cope with another investigation.
“Sneddon is obsessed with bringing him down. This is not justice, it’s a witch-hunt.”
Sneddon refused to answer calls yesterday. A spokeswoman said: “He has no comment to make at this time.”
Another source told of growing concern for Jacko because he has isolated himself from his family and loyal staff.
He lives in Bahrain because he fears being arrested if he returns to California.
The source said: “People just can’t get hold of him. The family are worried he is letting his business interests go in America because he is still taking too many prescription drugs.”
A string of top aides have quit over their inability to communicate with the star.
Even Jacko’s dad Joe has been unable to get hold of him.
He tried while his son was staying in London recently but was told by an aide still serving the star that he was busy.
Jacko’s lawyers and business managers are often told he is too tired to talk. The source said: “They fear Jackson is too drugged up to deal with anybody. They want him to go into rehabilitation to save his life.”
Liberal-tarian...
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Other than drug offenses, there is no correlation between marijuana use and crime.
Charles Manson never smoked a joint in his life? Neither did Roger Daltrey...
Tookie Williams is as pure as the wind driven snow?
Yes, I have a very satisfying life. Do not ping me. I do not deal with idiots and trolls. You could qualify either way!
No evidence of cause and effect. For example, all these men wear pants. You presumably do to. Does that make you a murderer because you wear pants? No. Why? Because wearing pants does not cause one to commit murder.
i'm familiar with all that....it's just that true opiates are to me more satisfactory than demerol
why not use something less enticing like Darvon or Talwin?
I don't know. I'm not a doctor. That's just the way they do it.
To arrest him for cocaine does violate his freedom; why is that anyone's business but his own? (And so long as your pings stick to the advertised subject, you may leave me on your list.)
me neither but I play one on FR
I'm not on your ping list.
Please remove me...
You go both ways...
Michael Jackson is a culmination of everything that is screwed up with this free sex, free drug pop culture society...
If you noticed, my sarcastic post poking fun at the religious bashing, liberal-tarian drug and porn advocates is met with a lot of really bitter resentment.
There is a clear connection between modern neo-paganism and ancient paganism related to Islamic conflict with the Judaic roots of Christendom. A focus on how this is manifested in a modern sense only requires a look at pop-culture icons in entertainment, sports "heroes," and attempts by the Left to use a pseudo-Christian sense of pagan moralistic idolatry to demonize political opposition. I present to you the attack on U.S. Senator Rick Santorum for his comments on sodomy as a useful example. A Sacred Cow.
Another example is Michael Jackson. With the undying support of his "fans" (or fanatics) in the face of his more than questionable activities concerning the abuse of children, they still hold him up as an idol. Jackson, both in his family life as a child and his adult life, is a modern extension of pedagogical pagan pedophilia of previous ages in ancient civilizations. Look at the macabre pagan elements of Jackson's video, Thriller.
Michael Jackson had Nation of Islam thugs as bodyguards escorting him after court appearances through the throngs of frenzied supporters. Is Jackson their new pharaoh? Nation of Islam is a militant racist cult, that is really neither Muslim or based on any traditional religious doctrine. Their leaders, Louis Farrakhan (the numerologist) and Kahlid Abdul Mohammed, are known Jew haters. They also support many illogical and socially subversive Leftist political activities intent on tearing down the structures of Modern Western Civilization and capitalism.
It is no coincidence Islamic pagans hate Israel, Jews, Christians and Western Civilization. The entire basis of Western Civilization is Mosaic Law, something both the Neo-Pagan Left and the pagan Islamic thugs cannot abide and wish to destroy.
The proliferation of psychics, seers, soothsayers, healers, gurus, UFO cults, conspiracy cults, witches, etc., etc., ad nauseum, is a social psychosis, an occulted (or masked) promotion of Leftist propaganda, a social psychosis of Cultural Marxism. [See: Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s, http://www.bu.edu/arion/paglia_cults00.htm]
Morality and all of its associated concepts are from the belief that some higher power is defining the correctness of human behavior. Today, "morals" are a religious pagan philosophy of esoteric hobgoblins where transfiguration is from pantheons of fantasies as the medium of infinitization. Others get derision for having an unwavering Judaic belief in Yahweh or Yeshua, although their critics will evangelize insertion of phantasmagoric fetishisms into secular law.
Was Freudian psychoanalytic theory of sexual stages in psychological development more accurate than accredited? The Michael Jackson Complex is an obvious fixation on mutilation of and deviance with human anatomy in the media. It is indicative of a societal mental illness that caters to the lowest common denominator and generated with Pavlovian behavioral conditioning in popular culture.
Should we really be canonizing special societal privileges in the law based on a person's idolatrous fetishes? Perhaps civil union and homosexual monogamy advocates could conclave to enshrine their own phantasmal state religion and consecrate Michael Jackson as its first Ecumenical Pope!
Come on Timmy, try it...it's Allah's virgin sand.
remove me from any and all of your ping lists
Yes indeedy, let's legalize drugs. It would so benefit the world. Just see the evil DA trying to crucify Michael Jackson for exercising his inalienable right to intoxicate himself with cocaine.
Did you know that all priests and church youth leaders who molest children believe in God? Hmmmm...
If he'd packed his pants with money, that could do it.
ROTFLMAO.
BTW, MJ's comment on Jews received no media outrage, while Johnny Rocker's mild statements about not liking New Yorkers, purple haired people and I forgot who else cause the media to go into a frenzy.
IMHO, a large segment of MJ's so-called fans were hired and/or represented NAMBLA and persons of similar sexual orientations. The jury should have been asked if they belonged to NAMBLA and their attitude towards sex with children.
Sneddon...or Jackson?
"Now that's some dope underwear!"
Very dope, and not worth sniffing.
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