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Today's Poll!Drug searches yield one arrest
Members of the MUSTANG Task Force served warrants Wednesday on two residences on Olive Street. Photo by Julie Smith.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Law enforcement agencies served several search warrants Wednesday related to drug activity in Jefferson City, and more could be coming in the next few days.
According to authorities, these were warrants initiated by the MUSTANG Drug Task Force, using the Jefferson City Police Department SWAT Team, members of the task force and the Cole County Sheriff’s Department SWAT Team.
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soxfan 2 years ago
i guess when president obama said the border is safe i wonder if he ment from drugs too
don l chicago
JCLifer 2 years ago
Someone needs to mow the yard.
JCsleeper 2 years ago
Might be where they're growing it.
Mr_Grimm 2 years ago
Good work by law enforcement. I love to see hardworking people put their butt on the line to get 2 more drugheads off the street........and on probation! whatever happened to if you cant do the time dont do the crime?
bluesfan13 2 years ago
I wonder why the title says "one arrest", but the caption says they served warrants on two residents, and two people in the photo seem to be handcuffed.
3blindmice 2 years ago
a drug arrest down in little jamaica? say it ain't so
asb 2 years ago
And yet today and tomorrow and forever in America, anybody who wants drugs will have ready access to them. All due respect to MUSTANG and the other sincere LEO working their tails off, you are spinning your wheels. Some of your cohort are corrupted by drugs more than the local dealers and users. Your political base is helpless and often drunk. Some of that cash you pulled from yesterdays pockets was headed for the money washing machine and landing in Corporate and private bank accounts. These young people are headed into a system far worse than the one they are in now. The drugs you fight need to be decriminalized. The kids who buy them need to be educated constantly and truthfully about the risks of use becoming abuse. And above all, the hypocrisy of criminalizing some drugs while funding sports and other segments of our culture with others needs to be laid on the table for all to deal with. Maybe if Jesus had turned weeds into Weed instead of water into wine, the Budwiser Inn would be a crock house and Little Jamaica would be Old Town.
wcywing 1 year, 12 months ago
thats the answer, sure. give non-violent drug offenders long term sentences. blame everything on drugs. i don't see no massive crime wave in CO, Maine, etc. use the police to catch real criminals. cannibus should not be a felony. it was legal when prohibition was around. i don't see Columbia falling down in the cracks of society.
asb 1 year, 12 months ago
Excellent example, the Chinese and opium, but you left out the Brits. A scourge developed and protected by force by the British to provide virtually free opium (heroin) to the chinese poor without any attempt at education or treatment, against the cultural, religious or economic wishes of the Chinese, to such an effect that the Chinese finally went to war (Boxer) against the British. It would be neither the first nor last time that a rulling class made drugs freely available to control a restless poor, for immense profit at that.
asb 1 year, 12 months ago
China had opium issues before the British turned it into a money pipeline and control mechanism, but NOTHING like the corrosive and anti-social impact that the British-contrived trade and pushing of it. Yes, China had a long history, much longer than any in Europe. And, they had drug problems wiith opium and alchohol. But they knew enough to recognize the dangers of a well organized drug trade forced on them by outsiders for profit, and fought it. They banned opium use, and guess what, the resulting illegal trade pumped MORE money into British and corrupt Chinese traders, made it even more attractive to the poor, and nearly undid the effort of the resistance. Once education and sincere counter-abuse messages took hold (not to mention the glorious revoluti . . . oops, never mind) the opium issue receded to historic levels; not good, as is case with all drugs, but manageable.
asb 1 year, 12 months ago
Jesus Christ is only one answer. Religion in general is only one answer.
wcywing 1 year, 12 months ago
how about when liquor was illegal and cannibus was perfectly legal, back in the prohibition days. prohibition was stupid. look at the $ wasted on enforcing that. it did create nascar. though. heh.
asb 1 year, 12 months ago
Your words are strong but wrong. History shows clearly that illegal, not legal, drugs are the most damaging to a society. It only took part of a generation to see that Prohibition was worse than controlled trade of alchohol. A free society will never allow prohibition, but an illegal trade can promote corruption of LE and provide immense profits for a few, with no taxes, no legitimate counter education, and no political support for a legitimate anti-abuse message. Drug use is a distraction from life's better pursuits: Drug abuse is a tragic portion of every culture: Prohibition destroys cultures.
wcywing 2 years ago
Missouri's drug laws are draconian to say the least. if the US legalize it and tax it, just think how much money they would make. during the prohibition years, liqueor was illegal but cannibus was legal. i'm all for law enforcement, but they should go after violent criminals, not against crimes against the self.
Columbia has lighten up on cannabis and i don't see their society crumbling.
gofish 1 year, 12 months ago
Bet you were a bully in school.
Rison 1 year, 12 months ago
Bravo.
wcywing 1 year, 12 months ago
be glad we don't live in Pima county, the shot a Marine 60 times.
abcnews.go.com/US/tucson-swat-team-defends-shooting-iraq-marine-veteran/story?id=13640112
tonto 1 year, 12 months ago
In Columbia, Mo, they only shot the dog a few times.
fox2now.com/news/ktvi-columbia-dog-shooting-drug-raid-050710,0,3652907.story
asb 1 year, 12 months ago
Exactly my point Wing. Illegal drugs, which corrupt law enforcement, encourage youth to foolishness, and profit people you never see, brings out the worst of humanity to run the trade. Mass murders, beheadings, torture of LEO and crushing effects of the trade on every level and segment of our culture are all due the the illegality, not the drugs themselves. Drug abuse is tragic, but can be managed. The illegal drug trade is an open wound on society and cannot be managed.
asb 1 year, 12 months ago
Not saying drugs are fine or no harm, this thread has no such statement by anybody. Drug abuse CAN be managed when drugs are easy to obtain, but control is MUCH HARDER when they are illegal. You can, and somebody has to, campaign against abuse and even use, but once there's tax-free money in it, and the only impediments to that cash are cops and weasels (elected), you are wasting your breath. Legal control and unopposed counter-use education are better than what we have now. The potential value of your anti-drug message is weakened by your mistatements and polarity, again. Or is the argument more important to you than the message?
wcywing 1 year, 12 months ago
how do you those people in the pic are "hardened criminals"? btw police have shot the wrong people, gone to wrong address and other things. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? who watches the watchmen?
who cares whats in someones garden?
3blindmice 1 year, 12 months ago
I'm going to have to disagree with you all on this one. they were selling and apparently using crack in that neighborhood within a stones throw of a city park. Those smoking the crack only care about one thing, their next hit. How do they pay for their drugs. robbing the homes in the surrounding neighborhood and mugging neighboorhood victims.
wcywing 1 year, 12 months ago
you know the old saying, no one likes crackhead.
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