Posted on 08/07/2019 8:07:09 PM PDT by thecodont
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) A drug pipeline into San Franciscos crime-ridden Tenderloin District, fueled by Honduran nationals who lived in the East Bay, has been busted up by federal agents who have arrested 32 suspects, authorities announced Wednesday.
Chris Nielsen, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in San Francisco, told reporters that an investigation was launched in late 2017 in cooperation with San Francisco and Richmond police and uncovered two independent drug operations stretching from Mexico to Seattle.
The drugs hitting the streets according to the DEA were methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.
These are small quantities of drugs, but lots and lots and lots of small quantities of drugs, Nielsen said. The bindles fed drug habits in the Tenderloin and beyond. DEA agents intercepted 1.5 kilos of cocaine and 2.5 kilos of heroin headed for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Of the drugs coming in from Mexico, Nielsen said, Its not clear yet which cartel is involved down there in Culiacan, Mexico, but drugs would come into Southern California, Los Angeles into the Bay Areathey would either go to the Tenderloin or sometimes the drugs would go up to the Pacific Northwest.
In the Bay Area, the mostly Honduran nationals lived in the East Bay and commuted daily into San Franciscos Tenderloin District to sell drugs.
The commuter drug dealers acted like independent contractors, Nielsen said, traveling on BART or in carpools to peddle the drugs that were shipped into the Bay Area from Mexico and Honduras.
Well at least they weren’t homeless.
America is developing an increasing libertarian streak... especially out on the West Coast. This accounts for the small quantity partakers.
What’s going to happen? What should happen?
I think there are going to be fewer and fewer busts as long as the vendors otherwise behave tolerably. That isn’t a recommendation... that’s just a prediction.
I think Christendom should wake up from its own stupor in the drug that might be called powerless church religion. Why aren’t we seeing small-s, small-a salvation armies all over? It’s not like the concept has met orthodox established religion, like the original Salvation Army did and decided to defy (and saw successes to the glory of God). It’s met a kind of cultural orthodoxy... one that says addicts belong in the gutter (except that the new breed of user often evades the gutter for decades). How does one find a Christian witness audience among this new breed of user (if not addict too)? The ultimate answer is to look like Jesus even if all the extant churches turn up their noses. And that means to get the spirit of Jesus and let Him teach through a narrow (even if twisty) way.
Hey, parking in liberal hell-holes is expensive. You have to cut your business expenses where you can.
Or get a business lucrative enough to pay for it!
There are no good solutions. Law enforcement cannot create a moral society. But I would hope that we can stop the Feds from making the situation worse which they gave for 50 years because of the perverse benefit to the Feds and their police state.
1. Stop protecting the poppy fields in Afghanistan.
2. Prosecute money laudering banks CEOs and stop them from doing business in U.S. if foreign.
3. Build a wall on the Southern border.
4. Reorganize federal drug agencies so that there is more public accountability and transparency. Vigorously prosecute corrupt agents. Transfer more power to State agencies especially for cases within the U.S.
But, the only real solution rests on a return to culture that supports strong families and Christian values.
Put all confiscate drugs in a tent city and give it away.
All drug users have the option, go to rehab or tent city.
Drug dealers are executed.
You can’t sell drugs if there are no buyers.
Well if they carpooled, at least they are environmentally conscious drug dealers.
I feel the same way.
Surely our great media will remind people of this fact the next time they report on a caravan of illegals from Honduras. Right?
Just another day at the office!
Hey, at least they weren’t Mexicans. Otherwise, MSNBC, CNN and the other networks would be calling the arrests “RACIST”. /sarc
The NWO drug running continues.
I see that Latin America is sending their best.
The whole corrections industry would shrink to a fraction of its size without the ongoing drug problems; winning the “war on drugs” would be economically devastating to so many people latched onto the law enforcement “business”.
This is why Harris is losing support among blacks; she took her thirty pieces of silver to lock up blacks, often for drug offenses - she was The Man in their eyes.
“But, but, drugs should be legal and sold in vending machines! There are millions of addicts living in tents in America who say so!”
What exactly has the illegality of drugs accomplished ... other than to drive up the profit margins of violent criminals?
Drugs are bad, m'kay? Look at the states that legalized the recreational dope. LA: 40,000 addicts living in tents. San Fran: ditto. Portland: ditto. Seattle: ditto. Denver: ditto.
You're either deliberately obtuse (to justify your addiction) or simply genuinely stupid.
Which is it?
Then they will still develop lung cancer from
smoking and Ill pick up the tab!
Brilliant!
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/08/07/tenderloin-heroin-drugs-hondurans-dea-san-francisco/
Totally agree, now that all Intractable Pain Patients are Forced Tapers all that is left are Illicit Street Junkies. And they aren’t buying enough Narcan. Boo-Hoo.
CDC Admits Rx Opioid Deaths Significantly Inflated Pain News Network
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/3/21/cdc-admits-rx-opioid-deaths-significantly-inflated
Stop persecuting doctors for legitimately prescribing opioids for chronic pain
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