Man Denies Owning Bag of Crack, Found in His Own Butt

It all started when Raymond Roberts was pulled over in his Hyundai by the Manatee County, FL (yes, that's a real place), sheriff's office on Wednesday for speeding. When the cops approached his car, it apparently reeked of weed, so they made the 25-year-old get out of the car for a search. From the Smoking Gun:

During the search, when Deputy Sean Cappiello "felt a soft object in the crack of his buttocks," the suspect "began to tense up." Roberts volunteered to remove the item. “Let me get it, hold on” he said, and proceeded to place a "clear plastic baggie with a green leafy substance" on the car's hood.

It was 4.5 ounces of marijuana — though probably any situation in which a cop is groping around your butt crack would probably make you "tense up."

Roberts conceded that the weed was his, but the search didn't end there:

But, as the deputy reported, "I then searched his shorts again and felt another object that was in the crack of his buttocks. I pulled the object out from the exterior of his shorts and a clear plastic baggie with a white rock substance fell to the ground." This plastic bag, a test would later determine, contained 27 pieces of crack cocaine.

Roberts was quick to clarify the ownership situation. "The white stuff is not mine," he said. "But the weed is." Just because a bag of drugs is in your ass doesn't mean you own it. (It could be your son's, for example, and you are just about to mouth kiss it to him.) The crack cocaine had just been left in the car by a friend, you see, and when the cops pulled him over he decided to do himself and his friend a favor and stick it up his butt. It actually makes perfect sense, when you think about it.

Mexican assassins headed to Arizona

Drug smuggling gangs in Mexico have sent well-armed assassins, or "sicarios," into Arizona to locate and kill bandits who are ambushing and stealing loads of cocaine, marijuana and heroin headed to buyers in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security has warned Arizona law enforcement authorities.

In a memo sent in May and widely circulated since, the department said: "We just received information from a proven credible confidential source who reported that a meeting was held in Puerto Penasco in which every smuggling organization who utilizes the Vekol Valley was told to attend. This included rival groups within the Guzman cartel."

Joaquín Archivaldo Guzman Loera heads what formally is known as the Sinaloa Cartel, which smuggles multi-ton loads of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico to the United States. One of the most powerful and dangerous drug gangs in Mexico, it also is known as the Guzman cartel, which has been tied to the production, smuggling and distribution of Mexican marijuana and heroin and has established transshipment outlets in the United States.

The Vekol Valley is a widely-traveled drug smuggling corridor running across Interstate 8 between the Arizona towns of Casa Grande and Gila Bend, continuing north towards Phoenix. It gives drug smugglers the option of shipping their goods to California or to major cities both north and east.

The Homeland Security memo said a group of "15, very well equipped and armed sicarios complete with bullet proof vests" had been sent into the valley. It said the assassins would be disguised as "groups of 'simulated backpackers' carrying empty boxes covered with burlap into the Vekol Valley to draw out the bandits." Once identified, the memo said, "the sicarios will take out the bandits."

The federal government has posted signs along Interstate 8 in the Vekol Valley warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and the local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.

The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego. They warn travelers they are entering an "active drug and human smuggling area" and may encounter "armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed."

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, told The Washington Times earlier this month that Mexican drug cartels have posted scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and "they literally control movement.

"They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has," he said. "This is going on here in Arizona. This is 70 to 80 miles from the border -- 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States."

The sheriff said he had asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but instead got 15 signs. He also has confirmed that he got the Homeland Security memo warning of the assassins.

Rising violence along the border has coincided with a crackdown in Mexico on warring drug gangs, who are seeking control of smuggling routes into the United States. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has waged a bloody campaign against powerful cartels, and more than 28,000 people have died since he launched his crackdown in late 2006.

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has called the signs "an insult to the citizens of border states."

"American citizens should not have to be fearful for their lives on U.S. soil," he said. "If the federal government would do its job of enforcing immigration laws, we could better secure the border and better protect the citizens of border states."

Two years ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the investigative arm of Homeland Security, said in a report that border gangs were becoming increasingly ruthless and had begun targeting not only rivals, but federal, state and local police. ICE said the violence had risen dramatically as part of "an unprecedented surge."

The Justice Department's National Drug Intelligence Center, in its 2010 drug threat assessment report, called the cartels "the single greatest drug trafficking threat to the United States." It said Mexican gangs had established operations in every area of the United States and were expanding into rural and suburban areas.

It said assaults against U.S. law enforcement officers along the southwestern border were on the increase, up 46 percent against Border Patrol agents alone.


By Jerry Seper
The Washington Times
October 15, 2010

Marijuana, Meth and Ecstasy Use Up among Americans

Consumer confidence may be down, but use of marijuana, meth (methamphetamine), and ecstasy, along with nonmedical use of prescription drugs, is up among Americans. Between 2008 and 2009, illicit drug use among people aged 12 years and older in the United States increased from 8.0 percent to 8.7 percent.
The new overall figure, which is the result of a national survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and entitled the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), was mostly associated with a large increase in marijuana use. Approximately 67,500 people were surveyed.

Marijuana, Meth, and Ecstasy
The rate of marijuana use among youth aged 12 to 17 increased from 6.7 percent in 2008 to 7.3 percent in 2009. While this rise in marijuana use was significant, the 7.3 percent figure is lower than the 2002 level of 8.2 percent.

Overall illicit drug use among young people also rose, from 9.3 percent in 2008 to 10.0 percent in 2009. Of interest, however, is that the number of young people who believe smoking marijuana once or twice a week is harmful declined from 54.7 percent in 2007 to 49.3 percent in 2009.

When looking at the past-month use of ecstasy and methamphetamine, the survey found that the number of meth users rose from 314,000 in 2008 to 502,000 in 2009, and that among ecstasy users, the numbers increased from 555,000 in 2008 to 760,000 in 2009.

Among adults aged 18 to 25, overall past-month use of illicit drugs increased from 19.6 percent in 2008 to 21.2 percent in 2009. This increase was largely associated with more use of marijuana.

Some Good News about Drug Use
According to Gil Kerlikowske, director of National Drug Control Policy, “past month marijuana use was much less prevalent among youths who perceived strong parental disapproval for trying marijuana or hashish once or twice than among those who did not—4.8 percent versus 31.3 percent, respectively.” Cigarette use among people aged 12 years and older has reached a low of 23.3 percent, and cocaine use among the same age group has also declined 30 percent from 2006.

Results Not Surprising
Kerlikowske called the survey results “disappointing, but not surprising,” and said that the current approach by the National Drug Control Strategy, which focuses on “prevention, treatment, smart law enforcement and support for those in recovery,” is the right one. He added that “our efforts must be reinforced and supported by the messages kids get from their parents.”

Despite the increased use of marijuana, meth, ecstasy, and other illicit drugs among Americans, the number of people who receive specialized treatment for a substance abuse problem is far lower (2.6 million) than the number who need it (23.5 million).

You can see the complete National Survey on Drug Abuse and Health on the SAMHSAQ website. More information about marijuana, meth, and ecstasy can be seen on the National Institute on Drug Abuse websites.

SOURCE:
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration

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