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How Mississippi Discovered The Drug War’s “Golden Egg”
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:05 am
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:05 am
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I’m fricked, Andy remembered thinking.
The agents told him they had photos, and videos too. He wasn’t sure how this could’ve happened. He’d grown up in Oxford, Mississippi, and only bought weed from friends. Yet the agents were telling him they’d caught him making three purchases for a total of 12.3 grams, enough to send him to prison.
“They made it sound really serious,” said Andy, who, like every defendant in this story, requested anonymity. “For a little bit of pot, I’d be in there for a long time.”
He first thought about his parents, he said, about how mad they’d get, about how awful it would be to call them asking to bail him out. Then he thought about prison, and it terrified him. He was 18 years old, a freshman at a junior college, and he hoped to transfer to a four-year university soon. He smoked weed and ate mushrooms every now and then, but he’d never gotten into serious trouble.
Now here he was, in June 2011, sitting at a table across from two stern-faced agents from the Lafayette County Metro Narcotics Unit, in a small room in a squat brick detention center down the road from Oxford Square, the city’s main hangout spot, where Ole Miss students and young locals gather for Tuesday morning coffees and Sunday brunches and Friday night beers. (BuzzFeed News put together Andy’s story through interviews with him, his lawyer, his father, and a review of court documents.) The agents had not arrested him, he said, and he was not in handcuffs or detained against his will. The agents had simply stopped him as he left a friend’s house and told him they’d wanted to speak with him. They told him they could send him to jail today if they wanted, and Andy said he imagined his future swirling down the drain.
I’m fricked.
Then the agents gave him an out, one that would spare Andy any punishment.
Each year, the tiny four-person Lafayette County Metro Narcotics Unit recruits on average 30 confidential informants, many of them college students. Around half of those arrested by Metro Narcotics in 2014 were first-time offenders, and the unit made three times as many arrests for marijuana as for any other drug. For two decades those arrests helped win nearly half the unit’s total budget from federal grants designed to help fight America’s War on Drugs. When the drug war began to cool down, and the federal funding dried up, local institutions stepped up to keep the unit alive. Thanks to money from the city and county governments and the University of Mississippi, Lafayette County Metro Narcotics continues busting college kids and turning them into informants by threatening them with hard time or the shame and lifelong burden of a drug record............
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:10 am to Don Johnson
This is one of those titles where it reallllly bugs me that the apostrophe isn't on the outside of the 's' in War (Wars').
Because I have to say it that way in my head: wars-es.
ETA: tl;dr
Because I have to say it that way in my head: wars-es.
ETA: tl;dr
This post was edited on 4/21/15 at 9:11 am
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:10 am to Don Johnson
Good for them. Don't do drugs and you have nothing to worry about
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:13 am to Don Johnson
Lafayette county dosnt play, I can't even begin to list the illegal things police pulled during my 4 years in Oxford.
One of my favorite examples, my roommate at the time heard someone moving around in our living room and saw a light under this door. He opened up his bedroom door and discovered a cop with a flashlight looking around inside our house. He freaked out on the cop saying he could have shot him and the cop turned around to run out the front door. The story we were told was someone on the street had run from a dui stop and they thought he might be hiding in our house
One of my favorite examples, my roommate at the time heard someone moving around in our living room and saw a light under this door. He opened up his bedroom door and discovered a cop with a flashlight looking around inside our house. He freaked out on the cop saying he could have shot him and the cop turned around to run out the front door. The story we were told was someone on the street had run from a dui stop and they thought he might be hiding in our house
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:15 am to Pectus
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This is one of those titles where it reallllly bugs me that the apostrophe isn't on the outside of the 's' in War (Wars').
Because I have to say it that way in my head: wars-es.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:15 am to Don Johnson
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Each year, the tiny four-person Lafayette County Metro Narcotics Unit recruits on average 30 confidential informants,
Every police force in a college town does this and has been for years. Guess it's the "Golden Egg" to Mississippi because they're last at everything.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:18 am to LSU8654722
Google operation agent orange, a few friends from college were just recently released from prison after serving a few years. Most of them were just caught on the wire taps used to arrest the big fish but still got full sentences
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:51 am to LSU8654722
The sad part is the penalty for weed possession in Mississippi is so light, he would've been better off just pleading guilty.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 11:23 am to Don Johnson
another "cops are the devil" thread
GFY libs
GFY libs
Posted on 4/21/15 at 12:00 pm to tigerstripedjacket
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another "cops are the devil" thread
GFY libs
Well, I don't think the cops in that story are the devil but i sure hope they burn in hell.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 12:13 pm to Don Johnson
Andy is a bitch-made idiot. He would have got a slap on the wrist but he let the pigs intimidate him.
As for wearing a wire to rat out his friends, .
As for wearing a wire to rat out his friends, .
Posted on 4/21/15 at 12:16 pm to Pectus
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This is one of those titles where it reallllly bugs me that the apostrophe isn't on the outside of the 's' in War (Wars'). Because I have to say it that way in my head: wars-es.
You, Sir, are wrong. The thread title is correct.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 12:22 pm to Don Johnson
I'm thankful Andy was taken off the streets before he OD'd or sold pot to babies
Posted on 4/21/15 at 12:31 pm to Pectus
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This is one of those titles where it reallllly bugs me that the apostrophe isn't on the outside of the 's' in War (Wars'). Because I have to say it that way in my head: wars-es.
Yeah, uh, that's not correct.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 12:55 pm to Don Johnson
That poor kid doesn't sound so bright. But I would assume that those are the ones they go after the hardest.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 1:03 pm to Pectus
quote:
This is one of those titles where it reallllly bugs me that the apostrophe isn't on the outside of the 's' in War (Wars').
Because I have to say it that way in my head: wars-es.
This is one of those posts that realllllly bugs me because the poster doesn't know wtf they are talking about.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 1:18 pm to ManBearTiger
Do these kids sign something that is akin to a plea bargain before even being charged? I just wondered if the agreements ever come out in open court as they sound open-ended. Need counselor SFP's thoughts on this article and what his plan of attack would be for this kid.
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