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Tragic Story: Don't Smoke Pot or you have to do Police's Job
fungistratus
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http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5454035
So this girl gets caught with small amount of marijuana (1/4 pound bout a full sandwich bag) and 6 ecstascy/vallium pills. Mind you she is 23, just graduated college.
The police decide to use her as an undercover threatning her with 5 years in jail for the above ammount if she doesn't help.
They send her on a sting operation to buy $13,000 worth of cocaine and a handgun...WTF?!!!
The whole thing goes awry and THEY LET HER DIE. They had notcontigency plan for if the dealers decided to move the deal.
Do you think it was a little stupid to use someone with 0 undercover experince on a drug sting this large with men that were this dangerous? I mean did you see their mugshots? The 2 of them together must have weighed 4 times what she did.
The police should not be able to do this. And then the police captiain brands her as a drug dealer (SHE WAS NEVER CONVICTED OF ANYTHING) to save his own reputation. What an asshole.
Fuck the Tallahasee Police Department.
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Getting caught with pot in your car once - ok bad decision having it in the car.
Getting raided and having drugs in your place - bad decision again.
Deciding to go along with police instead of getting a lawyer and doing a little time/comm. service to try to get out of trouble when drug dealers will most likely KILL YOU or do something bad to you even if its over POT - WTF???
I agree the cops shouldn't have sent in an unexperienced civilian to do undercover work but she decided to go along with it in the end.
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
1/4 pound isn't really a "small amount" that's at least several hundred dollars worth of pot, far more if it is good quality. Other than that, yeah I agree with you, the cops screwed up and she paid the price. Then again, it isn't all the cops fault. She wasn't totally innocent and she volunteered, and then again, she did have the drugs in the first place.
Im surprised that girl's father didn't go off the deep end and start assassinating the cops responsible for coercing her into such a thing and letting her die. People have sought revenge for less.
was the pot ok!!?!?!?!?
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Everyone in that police department associated with that decision should be sacked and prosecuted.
yea smokin kills :S never did that kidn of sh** in my life
Yeah a friend at work told me about this yesterday,sometimes the cops are worse than the "criminals",
And i fucking know this is true.
Hope the citizens of Tallahsee cry bloody murder until the asshats who arranged this are put away for a long time.Negligent Homicide maybe? Wreckles endangerment? I am sure some charge could be made to stick.
Extort a young girl to do there dirty work what a bunch of fucktards.
So if you do drugs and are busted let this be a lesson to you, never cut a deal,just do your time.
The first clue is when the police are so friggin incompetent that they can't get an undercover officer in to make the deal themselves.
Then they have to look for someone stupider than they are to make the bust.
That's the lesson, when a bunch of morons ask you to do something stupid that they can't pull it off themselves, just say "no".
A QP of low grade pot is about $120.
What struck me, is that they made her go in first hand with the buy. If the dealers are there, then the police could raid them and she wouldnt be needed. You can even tell in that video the cop is nervous and knows he screwed up.
I really gotta say it, man. She pretty much was totally innocent, as far as deserving this shit goes. She was a college student who just graduated. You probably think that anybody who does pot or X is going to end up as a crack addict living in the gutter, but that's not reality. That kind of stuff is standard fare for a lot of the heavier party girls out there, especially in or just out of college. Guess what? Most of them grow out of it. Give her ten years more, and she could've been the working professional or mom down the street, and you never would've known this crap by looking at her.
Y'know, I understand the cops busting her. I don't give a damn about that. That's the law, and it's their job. But sending her into the lion's den like that is bullshit. Almost all people who just deal with lighter drugs like X and pot have no idea how bad the drug world gets below that level. Even people who sling that shit in the better suburban areas have no clue how bad it gets. When they push this kind of deal on you, cops always, always, always try to convince you that this kind of shit is safe. Some people unfortunately believe them. They just exploited her ignorance.
I'm not just saying that because I live in a fantasy world where everybody is innocent. I've known people who have gone all the way down that road, even through prison. I recognize that one thing can lead to another. But from what I'm seeing, and I haven't seen everything, this girl isn't some villain who even remotely deserved this shit.
To bad for her.
You guys are so quick to judge the situation with so little information. She got caught... which means she has probably been doing this for years and just got caught now. I see no problem with this situation whatsover... THE ONLY reason this is even a news item is because its a girl. If it was a guy no one would care.
Not at all. It makes no difference, at least to me, if it were a man or woman. I read the story, saw the news reports, and it is my opinion that the police were totally irresponsible. They should not have jobs that involve protecting or providing safety for people ever again. If there is "more" to this story, fine. I'm not so narrow minded that my opinion can't be changed by new facts. Having said that, I can't think of anything off hand that would make it okay for the police, or any law inforcement agency, to force a private citizen, even one accused of selling pot, in to that sort of situation. At least in my opinion. It's not only irresponsible, but should be criminal. I'd love to see all involved prosecuted.
So lets get this straight,
She is a saint according to her parents, she gets busted multiple times for selling drugs, and is a well know user she then chooses to help the police to lighten her sentence and we are suppose to feel sorry for her?
How about ....not.
Just because she gagy-ated co-ledge doesn't mean she was smart.
You can feel sorry forever you like. I don't see that or her education as being a point here. My only point is that law enforcement professionals should know better.
Law enforcement professionals have actual trained undercover officers that go in to make the deal.
Law enforcement professionals have actual trained undercover officers that go in to make the deal.
I understand that and I have law enforcement professionals in my family. I hope they never screwed up anything to this extent.
PS When I said "you can feel sorry forever you like", I actually meant to say "You can feel sorry for whom ever you like." Sorry about that. I'm watching my sister's pup today and I have two kitties. I posted that surrounded by kitty and puppy drama! hehe. I live in a mad house today!
You are missing one critical point of that boo-hoo story.
No one made her do it, she chose to so they would lighten her sentence.
Here is a thought, maybe she should have stopped selling drugs the FIRST time they caught her. Law enforcement does stuff like that all the time. I have no simpathy for this individual who repeatably broke the law...selling drugs no less, its not like it was for parking tickets. Surprise, hey guess what? Theres a price for that according to society at large.
To bad so sad, where the f**k where her parents while all of this was going on?
I've had more than one lawyer tell me to never ever, under any circumstances, cooperate with the police for any reason! My lawyer, and a private investigator I once used, tell me that the cops are much worse than the criminals they lock up! Corruption is the rule in police depts. nation wide.
Her family should sue the shit out of the city for that!
Maybe no one made her do it, Torak, but she's not the professional. She can't be expected to understand this sort of thing. I don't think there are many people outside of law enforcement, and obviously even many of them, who would be able to suss the ins and outs of that kind of operation. She probably felt that she would be protected and be, at least, relatively safe. The police are more culpable than the 23 year old girl in this "boo-hoo" story, I reckon.
And she sold some pot, not heroin to children. Whoop de doo. It certainly doesn't warrant being dragged in to some dangerous police sting and getting murdered by a bunch of obviously incompetents. Geez. I feel sorry for the community that expects protection from that lot.
The level of stupidity on this board amazes me. She didn't volunteer first of all, they coerced her....there is a huge difference. Second she is a not in law enforcement...she is a civilian with no training regarding what she is about to do...none. They have her meet with two highly dangerous individuals and make a big buy of drugs and a weapon?
You people that blame her for her own death - please quit breathing our air...the real humans of this planet need it.
I hope the mother and father managed to get some justice of their own and have the cops involved in this persecuted and sent to jail.
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Oh shut-up!!!!! ::smacks him on the shoulder:: LOL! Everyone knows my brain is malfunctioning lately. Nothing new. But for the others that use this "board" there is no excuse!
Nyah!
Thats funny as hell. It is her own fault for being stupid. I would congratulate the cops for not having to put one of there own in danger when they can just use the idiot pot head. It's even better she was a college grad. Hahahaha if I was her parents I would sue the institution that gave her that degree. It is obvious the dumb bitch wasnt that brite.
I dunno if your asking for trouble or your stating your own opinion.
If your stating your own opinion......... You have alot to learn... about.... everything
I dunno if your asking for trouble or your stating your own opinion.
If your stating your own opinion......... You have alot to learn... about.... everything
No not really. If you do the crime do the time. If you work out a deal that is to good to be true then it probably is. I dont blame the cop's. If your childish and hate cops oh well. I think the plan was brilliant. Sell the dumb bitch out and now you have the real thugs on a murder charge and will be home for beers and dinner by 5. Good for them.