Drug Bust

[K C Muffin]

"DODGE CITY - Two Ford County residents are behind bars on drug charges stemming from an undercover sting operation, Dodge City police said Thursday.

Authorities on Wednesday arrested a 44-year-old man - Carlos Romero, according to the Ford County Jail log - on charges of selling cocaine, methamphetamines and marijuana. An 18-year-old woman - Brandy Murray, according to the jail log - was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia.

The arrests culminated a two-week undercover operation carried out by the Dodge City/Ford County Narcotics Enforcement Team, which is made up of Dodge City police and the Ford County Sheriff's Department.

Agents allegedly bought the drugs from Romero on several occasions at his home in the Green Acres trailer park development on the southeastern outskirts of Dodge City, which he shared with Murray.

The suspects were scheduled to make their first appearance in Ford County District Court on Thursday."

Honest to God. What's up with the Glob? This was in today's Hutch News. When is/was the Glob going to print it? I have two problems with this story, aside from it not coming from the Globe. The first is that this 18-year-old girl is living with a 44-year-old man. Holy cow! What's up with that? The other is that it took a two-week undercover operation. If a copy buys once from a scum-bag, it ought to be enough. Just one time....not repeated times over 2 weeks. During that two weeks, he had the opportunity to sell to a number of citizens, some of them probably under 18.

[Bubba]

I'm usually with you kcm, but in this case you are a little off the mark. I think the glob leaves a lot to be desired, but this is what they had today...

Web-posted Nov. 11, 11:13: AM
Two arrested on drug-related charges
From Staff Reports

A two-week undercover drug-purchasing operation has resulted in the arrests of two Ford County residents, the Dodge City Police Department reported Thursday.
An 18-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia, and a 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of selling cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, plus suspicion of selling drugs without a tax stamp. The two were taken into custody without incident.

The police department does not release suspects’ names until formal charges have been filed against them, but Thursday’s population log from the Ford County Detention Center indicates that an 18-year-old woman named Brandy Murray and a 44-year-old man named Carlos Romero were booked into the jail Wednesday on drug-related charges.

Police Lt. Craig Mellecker said Thursday the police department’s policy prevented him from confirming or denying whether the suspects arrested on Wednesday were Murray and Romero.

Authorities with the Dodge City/Ford County Narcotics Enforcement Team arrested the man and woman after executing a search warrant at 11348 El Torro St. in the Green Acres Trailer court, according to a news release from the police department. The search stemmed from a two-week undercover operation in which authorities purchased substances that they suspected were marijuana, meth and cocaine from Murray and Romero.

Authorities also seized suspected drug paraphernalia during the search.

The undercover purchases began Oct. 28 and ended Wednesday with the arrests, Mellecker said. The substances were sent to a Kansas Bureau of Investigation lab for analysis.

Authorities are continuing their investigation into the incident.

http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/11...51111004.shtml

[Tee]

marijuana, meth, cocaine and drug paraphernalia....

What, no PCP or herion?

Wow- talk about your ONE STOP SHOPPING!!

[K C Muffin]

Originally Posted by Bubba

I'm usually with you kcm, but in this case you are a little off the mark. I think the glob leaves a lot to be desired, but this is what they had today...

I gotcha - but still.....this happened Wednesday. I would have thought a local daily paper would be more on the ball. I don't understand why it didn't hit Thursday's paper locally. Just seems that 2-day-old 'news' is old. The Glob probably doesn't have adequate technology to do it, but there is a link to the KC Star a reader can subscribe to on-line and it gives up-to-the-minute news. And maybe it's more important to me to have news right away instead of learning about it a couple of days later just because of where I live and how fast things change in the metro...especially traffic.

Anyway, now we both know and it doesn't make one bit of difference what either of us do today, right? Have a good weekend!

[TexKan]

Bubba - I thought you were kidding with the Glob thing.....OMG - they write worser than me....... I thought that "we don't release names" was a good statement to go with "here's our booking sheets"..... Course public info IS public info..... May this be a lesson in the difference between "fired public servent" and "arrested"........ Arrested is the key word here.....
The Glob is too much
Hey - we can't get the cops to "say" the names but this is how we added 2 and 2. Now we don't wanna say who they are - but the 2 that got booked on the same charges are........ and they are...... old ( U R right KC that's ANOTHER story all together ) and BTW if there is any confusion - they live at ......... just incase any of their friends wanna take the rest of their trailer that we didn't seize as evidence........ROTFLMAO

Now I'm not one to trash cops - they are too near and dear to my heart - but ADMIN is ALWAYS fair game.......Overall I'm sure they did a good job and did it well - which they probably did........even tho it took 2 weeks - they are still off the street and the others they sold to are probably not too far behind the 2 in jail

[Flying Dutchman]

The reason for repeated buys is to give the state enough evidence for a conviction. You charge a person with, say, 10 seperate counts it doesn't give them much wiggle room. It also gives you some leverage in moving up the chain for bigger fish.

[K C Muffin]

I understand why they make repeated buys, Dutchie - they don't want the guy to walk. I'm still frustrated and I just wish we didn't have to take this kind of time to get scrum off the streets once idenitifed. I'm sure you share my frustrations.

[TexKan]

Good point Dutch - I knew that just didn't hink of that. I know sometimes drug dealers are left alone and encouraged to think nobody is watchin just so they can get the "big" fish...... Truth is at the little local crack house in my neighborhood they been doin that for years. Actually some crack houses I think are left to operate so long as they don't "take over" the neighborhood and do it rather discretely. It's a good resource for the cops. Ours has been busted once and cleared out but business is goin again. Not on the scale as before but the cars cruise, the boys shuttle with thier bikes and the business picks up around dark. No one has shot anyone yet - but we keep hopin they do it soon. I'm tired of the "boom" cars......cheap ass sound systems.......and we call for anything we can think of - If they weren't so afraid that we would shoot them - they probably would rob us blind like they did a couple of years ago. They about emptied our garage until they got held at gunpoint. That crap stopped and they all think we are crazy - just as good.......cause we are.......LOL

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by Tee

marijuana, meth, cocaine and drug paraphernalia....

What, no PCP or herion?

Wow- talk about your ONE STOP SHOPPING!!

Look back through this thread for their address, that way when they get out on bail you know where to go to stock up!

[lurker]

It's a "trailer park development"... Mayhaps years ago it was a development. Now it would be a colonia.