Buyer Beware!

Caveat Emptor takes on a whole new meaning when undercovers sell drugs. Buyer beware!
Not only is the product bad, you get a cop in every box.

On May 23, 2008 the Key West Police Department's Special Operations Unit arrested three young men for trying to buy drugs from undercover detectives. Thomas Jenkins, 35, Jarrett Przybyszewski, 24, and Joseph Martinez, 24, were charged with solicitation to purchase cocaine after they asked undercover detectives if they could buy drugs from them. All three were transported to the Monroe County Detention Center.
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On February 5th and 6th, 2009 in Chester, Pennsylvania undercover narcotics officers arrested 30 people who came to the Crosby Street area to buy drugs. The operation filled the department’s cell blocks to capacity. The undercover officers posed as dealers selling crack, cocaine, heroin and marijuana. “Whatever they asked for, we had,” said one officer. Apparently, all of the drugs, except the marijuana, were fake. Although the oldest person arrested was 70 years old, it appears that Pennsylvania's druggies are getting old. Most of those arrested were in their forties. See article at:

http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2009/02/10/news/doc499101098b439090036910.txt

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Rapper DMX also purchased drugs from an undercover police officer. DMX [Earl Simmons], was arrested during a narcotics sting operation, according to a police report obtained by the Miami Herald. According to reports, X asked a cop for ''30 powder and 15 weed.'' The rapper paid $30 for cocaine and $15 for marijuana. He was then arrested and booked in Miami-Dade County jail. The week prior (June 23, 2008) he was arrested in Miami for driving without a valid driver's license. He has a case pending in Arizona for 11 counts of animal cruelty and drug charges following raids on his Arizona home.

Operation Xcellerator [sic.]

In a 21 month operation that apparently spanned from coast to coast and involved Canada and Mexico, the DEA, likely coordinating with a multitude of other state and federal agencies, arrested over 750 people on narcotics charges, and seized more than 23 tons of narcotics and over $59 million dollars.
The arrested are alleged to be Sinaloa Cartel Members.
The arrests were announced on February 25, 2009 by DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart
The Sinaloa Cartel is responsible for bringing multi-ton quantities of narcotics, including cocaine and marijuana, from Mexico into the United States through an enterprise of distribution cells in the United States and Canada. Individuals indicted in the cases are charged with a variety of crimes, including: engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise by violating various felony provisions of the Controlled Substances Act; conspiracy to import controlled substances; money laundering; and possession of an unregistered firearm. More than 12,000 kilograms of cocaine, more than 16,000 pounds of marijuana, more than 1,200 pounds of methamphetamine, more than 8 kilograms of heroin, approximately 1.3 million pills of Ecstasy, more than $6.5 million in other assets, 149 vehicles, 3 aircraft, 3 maritime vessels and 169 weapons were seized.
The full article can be viewed at:

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/2009/la022509.html

Operation Rock Solid Nets 31 Dealers.. including Crips?

In a joint operation between DEA’s MET, the Oceanside Police Department, the DEA, Carlsbad Police Department, Escondido Police Department, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, U.S. Marshals Service, San Diego Sheriff’s Department, the Jurisdictions Unified for Drug and Gang Enforcement (JUDGE), and the San Diego County Child Protective Services, and (it appears) some very fancy pimp-style cars, officials seized, forced, and warranted. Thirty-one (31) people were arrested in the Oceanside area. Their names can be found on the following webpage:

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/2009/sd022609.html


The investigation targeted drug dealers and gang members in Oceanside.