Next time you hear someone say “I live in the country to get away from all of that drug stuff…”. Think about this one. Believe me, Neola is about as remote as you can get and they still have ScumBags with
“A total of 1,660 fentanyl pills with an estimated street value of $20,000 were seized, the affidavit states.”.
I swear it’s everywhere, there is no escaping the scourge of Fentanyl
Neola is a census-designated place in Duchesne County, Utah, United States. The population was 461 at the 2010 census. Neola was established in 1912. Wikipedia
Population: 470 (2022)
ZIP code: 84053
Elevation: 6,037′
Area: 7 mi²
The people who “cook” methamphetamine like to find “off the grid” places like the end of a dirt road with no traffic, and no nosy neighbors who might report suspicious activity.
That type of place is more challenging to put under surveillance for law enforcement. Anyone lurking around would be more obvious.
Not to try and ‘Out-do’ anybody (or Town/City)
But ever since that STUPID show ‘Breaking Bad’ aired
New Mexico is Famous (or infamous?) for damn Meth and
the Sinaloa Cartels making Albuquerque a ‘way station’
for all points of the compass to YOUR neck of the woods for Fentanyl.
I apologize to the entire Country that it is too ducking easy to ‘Make it’
and ship it to your States. Backpacks full of that sh!t are found still
strapped to the corpses they find weekly who froze to death or died of dehydration
on the trek to find I-25/I-40 Interchange. They huddle in the Arroyo’s
(dry river beds, no fires (fires draw attention and DIE!) GOOD!)
It’s still around freezing every night here and out in the boonies it really takes a toll.
I heard somewhere, some article that a small operation in Mexico can produce 20,000
pills every two hours and the base ingredients come from China (nice)
New Mexico is still RESISTING the ICE/BP efforts to ‘curb’ the flow.
Yesterday an Attorney General (NM) was FIRED because his open door policies,
(soft on Crime and Criminals) ‘Lets give them another chance BS’ was too much
for the Trump Administration to take anymore.
The NEW problem is invading the ‘Reservations’ now. Folk’s with no prospects,
No skills, prone to addiction are the new Body count. Cheap easy to take drugs
and the bodies pile up (sometimes on the sides of the road. Oh look Ma?..Oh nevamind.
It’s just getting too much , too OBVIOUS for the Good Guys to overlook.
Can’t answer that definitively Brother. Hard to blame the LE’s
who are notoriously understaffed, But the Politicians? YES.
Their ‘commitment’ to Woke ideology (STILL) is a cancer that
is still dangerous and left untreated will be their doom.
(and possibly ours’) It’s said we have 30,000 Illegals in town (Abq))
I think this number is much higher. And their commitment as I just said
was reinforced last week with the doubling down to attempt to force ICE
to look elsewhere. It won’t work for them as Trump/Homan are taking a
blow torch to the Illegal flow. People even here are absolutely fed up with all the crime
that comes with rampant drug use and all the assorted evil’s.
It’s kind of weird to see NO ONE on the streets lately. Folk’s go for Fast Food, after work
and then must just go home. Businesses rarely stay open late anymore. (24) hour FF’s and Gas stations are going away. It’s too risky.
Look at the jurisdictions that have opposed closing the border the most, audit the net worth of their politicians then and now, and we’ll get a pretty clear answer about who is and who isn’t on the take.
He argues that the consequences of prohibition include: (1) illegal drugs/alcohol become more profitable for those who supply them; (2) illegal drugs/alcohol become more potent/powerful over time as users seek out higher-highs if their drug of choice becomes scarcer due to efforts to ban it; and (3) government law enforcement grows in reach and size infringing on the freedoms of society at large. It’s a short book, worth reading.
I agree with Mark, but that’s only when prohibition has no consequences. If we were to join the 22+ countries that make dealing drugs a capital crime, and vigorously enforce it, can’t help but wonder if things would change. And I mean enforce it the way that does not make attorneys rich defending them, but getting to the nuts and bolts of the case and bringing swift and decisive punishment against those who are truly guilty and legally found guilty.
I agree 100%, Hell I’d be happy with enforcing the laws we have, Get busted selling that stuff you get locked up. But not today, right now all they do in “Rehabilitate” and send them back out into the street.
Like Afghanistan where drug possession is a capital crime under the Taliban rule or China where drug dealers are executed. Yet, in spite of the capital penalties and lack of lawyers in trials in those countries, both are major exporters of heroin and fentynal.
