The secret world of methamphetamine users and dealers

 To grasp the significance of the Pennsylvania attorney general’s bust of a suspected major methamphetamine trafficking network with Bucks County ties, first you must understand the insular world of its users and distributors.
Meth, as it’s commonly known, isn’t a drug typically sold on street corners, but has a loyal following among mostly longtime users and dealers who operate largely in secret, according to those in law enforcement.
Typically the drug is made in small batches in small labs in out-of-the-way places. Often users will make the drug mainly for their own use, and sell some to feed their habit for the powerful and highly addictive synthetic stimulant, drug agents say.
The people who make and sell meth tend to be older, white men living in rural or suburban communities with an established customer base, law enforcement officials say. Like the people they sell to, dealers and distributors find the drug hard to resist, and many return to selling it after they’ve been arrested and served prison time, the drug agents say.  READ MORE HERE....

 MUG SHOT.  LARGELY IN SECRET WOELLERT

"operate largely in secret" is key, may be more so in a lovely little town like Santa Barbara.  They are in secret and in some of the most enchanting areas, who would ever guess?  They ingratiate themselves as if they can be the best until they start jonesing.  The courts, rehab do little to end the vicious cycle they are locked into.     

Sheriff’s Detectives Arrest Six

MUG SHOT.

STAY OFF THE PIPE BOEFF  

Rescued cat tests positive for methamphetamine 

3/18/13 SANTA BARBARA, Calif.  Deputies found nearly 2,000 pounds of marijuana and a panga style fishing boat on Arroya Camada Beach in Santa Barbara Sunday

What is happening with Michael Stinchfield?  The Santa Barbara businessman is charged with 13 felonies

3/25/13 Infamous Local Slumlord Busted for Burglary Santa Barbara – Dario Louis Pini, 63.

OXYCONTIN ARRESTS - SEATTLE AND LOS ANGELES - DEA LINK
2/28/13 Massive West Coast OxyContin Sweep

3/20/13 Sens. Leahy and Paul Introduce Bill to Undo Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

3/6/13 The upcoming trial in Houston of Rudi Dekkers for drug trafficking  has been pushed back and may now never happen, according to a lawyer close to the case.  3/8/13 Who Killed Hugo Chavez?

1/22/13 Lethal batch of super-strength ecstasy blamed for deaths of FIVE young people

 Inside Mexico's drug war: Heart-wrenching images of poverty and violence capture true misery of a country ravaged by cartels

Cocaine Brain?

One little story about a toxic substance that causes serious deterioration and can do chronic damage to the brain.

Cognitive Decline Tied To Chronic Use Of Illicit Drug

Always paranoid they would bust his chop shop no matter how well he could hide.

 Rich man, poor man, methamphetamine

Jenni Rivera's Connections

The following Madcow article is significant and would be huge if media was doing it's job:
EXCLUSIVE: Drug Traffickers Own Jenni Rivera Death Plane
Posted on December 12, 2012 by Daniel Hopsicker

WHO REALLY OWNED THE PLANE WHOSE CRASH KILLED JENNIE RIVERA?

50-year old Christian Eduardo Esquino-Nunez is the owner—at least, on paper—of Starwood Management LLC, the Las Vegas aviation charter company which is the registered owner of the crashed Lear jet.  
It is, at best, a legal fiction.
Virtually nothing about him should be taken at face value.  And with good reason: he lives in a web of international intrigue.

One example: Eduardo Esquino-Nunez was part of a conspiracy last year to smuggle Moammar Khadafy’s son, Saadi Gaddafi, into Mexico.
He was contacted, he said, by a representative of a Canadian developer who asked for a Mexican-registered aircraft charter to North Africa.

ONE MONTH LATER:

Explosive report claims that singer Jenni Rivera was involved with DRUG CARTELS before she died in plane crash  10 January 2013 By DAILY MAIL REPORTER  

Singer and reality star Jenni Rivera had ties to one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels before she was killed last month in a plane crash, a shocking report has claimed.
A witness reportedly came forward with claims that the Mexican-American performer, known as 'La Diva de la Banda,' was connected to the Beltran-Leyva cartel, which is regarded as one of the country's most feared criminal syndicates.

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