Posted on 02/20/2024 10:43:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
As the fentanyl crisis continues across the country, a new task force in Los Angeles is holding dealers accountable —not for selling drugs, but for murder.
As Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Lieutenant Bobby Dean explains, fentanyl provides an "extremely potent high, it is dirt cheap and it is incredibly easy to get."
He also warned, "It's a hundred times more powerful than morphine. And it will kill you in an instant if you get a bad batch."
Dean leads the task force that investigates fentanyl deaths in Los Angeles County with the aim of bringing charges against dealers.
"They are absolutely approached like a homicide," he told CBS News. "It is a death investigation."
In Los Angeles County, the sheriff's department investigates hundreds of fentanyl deaths a year. Sheriff Robert Luna said the goal is to have dealers face homicide charges, a growing strategy nationwide.
"What is the difference between somebody who stabs you or shoots you or is selling you pills that highly likely will kill you?" Luna said.
In 2023, sheriff's deputies in LA County seized more than 3,000,000 fentanyl pills — 300,000 more than in 2022.
In an undercover street buy, deputies brought back a baggie with about 10 pills disguised as prescription pain medication inside. It cost $80, and the deputies say the bag contained enough fentanyl to kill up to 20 people.
One of the task force's cases is the death of Jax Markley, who died of fentanyl poisoning in 2022 at the age of 18.
Jax's mother, Daisy Markley, told CBS News she found her child "slumped over on the bed" in his room.
"I just screamed for my husband," she said.
Asked if he wanted to find the people who provided drugs to his son, Matt Markley told CBS News, "I wanted nothing less than to burn this person's world down."
"They know damn well how deadly these things are," he added.
Detectives arrested the person who allegedly gave Jax Markley the fatal fentanyl. She's awaiting trial in federal court.
>> “I wanted nothing less than to burn this person’s world down.”
Hold that thought... I want to burn Fentanyl World down completely, all the way back to China.
It's sad. They are doing it as revenge for when we did the same thing to them.
Now the dealer, instead of being released on zero cash bail for drug dealing, will be released on zero cash bail for murder.
EC
“They are doing it as revenge for when we did the same thing to them.”
When exactly did America import poison into China?
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The British and French pushed opium on them. For the PRC, there’s no difference between the British and French and us.
Let me guess, much of that came via the Mexico border.
The way I see it, Biden should be held accountable as an accomplice to/for murder since he essentially encourages fentanyl coming into the country with his open borders policies.
It started in the 1780s, when the U.S. was a new country. By the 1820's the U.S. accounted for 1/3 of all the opium smuggled into China. First they used Turkish opium, later opium from India.
And the wealthiest families were doing it. FDR's maternal grandfather made his money from the trade. John Jacob Astor was involved. That's how Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter's husband made his money. Even Washington Irving, the country's first great writer.
Interesting note: All the town's in the U.S. named Canton, and the neighborhood in Baltimore are named after Guangzhou, China.
Not true. The U.S. was in on it. By 1818, the U.S. had surpassed France in smuggling Opium into China. But Britain was always no. 1.
I’m need to see some sources for that.
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http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1750_us.htm
https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade/The-Opium-Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China
http://teachingresources.atlas.illinois.edu/chinatrade/introduction04.html
There should also be income tax evasion charges along with the drug dealing and murder. Those armed-to-the-teeth IRS agents need a target.
Within arm’s reach of Drug Boy’s body you’ll find his phone. Check the last few texts and you’ll find his dealer.
Fake news. The intentional murder by a dealer is so common it has a name “hotshot”. It is ignored in the reddest of states.
We are in the place where a person addicted to drugs is devalued even though they are someone’s son or daughter.
so the dealers controllers and facilitators are starting to feel the legal heat and are trying to “firewall” it at the street level
Fascinating and saddening at the same time. And I had never heard of any American involvement in the opium trade.
All which I had known that it was mainly done by the British, it caused a massive social calamity in China, and this is the reason that China is not an Anglophile nation - to this day.
“even though they are someone’s son or daughter.”
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao were each someone’s son ...
I think portugal got it right.
Severely penalize dealers.
Mandatory rehab for users who are caught using or possessing.
It has had a good result there.
Here, we criminalize everything, fill jails, ruin lives.
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