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.

* Thanks to everyone that stops by.  We have an illness in the family and have not been able to do any blogging lately, hope to be back before long.

Insane Comments on Drug Legalization

Meth Now Being Disguised as Liquor

Every 42 seconds in U.S. there's a marijuana arrest

Local school bus driver arrested on charge of possession of meth for sale

Afghan drug trafficking brings US $50 billion a year

80 per cent of the world’s drugs are produced in Afghanistan. 

Americans themselves admit that drugs are often transported out of Afghanistan on American planes. Drug trafficking in Afghanistan brings them about 50 billion dollars a year – which fully covers the expenses tied to keeping their troops there.

Drugs, Money Laundering and the Banking System

Not crazy enough for you?  

Hillary Clinton: Legalization not the answer to the drug war
"This is an ongoing debate," she said. "We are formulating our own response to the votes of two of our states as you know — what that means for the federal system, the federal laws and law enforcement."

Cops Say Legalize Drugs

The CIA, Drug Trafficking and American Politics: The Political Economy of War

US pullout from Afghanistan to reduce drug trafficking to Russia

CRY FOR HELP

Let's end the prescription drug death epidemic

Don't miss Dr. Sanjay Gupta's "Deadly Dose" documentary. 

(CNN) -- It's the biggest man-made epidemic in the United States. That's how a doctor in Washington state described it to me as we sat outside the state Capitol in Olympia.

He was talking about accidental death from prescription drug overdoses. The doctor, Gary Franklin, medical director for Washington state's Department of Labor and Industries, recounted terrifying case after case and told me it was the saddest thing he had ever seen.
I remember him telling me about a teenager dying because he had taken too much narcotic medication after a dental procedure.  READ MORE  (video)...   Prescription drug deaths: Two stories

Edie Sedgwick  was a legendary socialite, heiress, model and actress born in Santa Barbara, California. Sedgwick is buried next to her mom in Santa Barbara County's Santa Ynez Valley, near the Neverland Ranch of Michael Jackson.... cause of her death  "acute barbiturate intoxication."

“Well you’re the boss applesauce“

Michael Jackson Used Employees' Names to Score Drugs

Billionaire hedge funder's wife arrested for 'driving under influence of drink and prescription drugs' after Hamptons car crash  

SANTA BARBARA: “Candy Man” Created Need for Drug Class for Many Patients

Two female patients taken to a hospital emergency room indicated they were among numerous people who used sex to pay for drugs from suspect Julio Gabriel Diaz.
 OUT ON BAIL  

UPDATE:  ' C A N D Y   M A N '    Malpractice Dr. Julio Diaz / Facing 200 Years in Prison.

Prescription drugs worth millions to dealers

New York man sold oxycodone pills from ice cream truck 
         Barbiturate Abuse Overview

Black market numbers crunch

Prescription Drugs On The Black Market (video)

In Depth: The black market for prescription drugs

Prescription, over-the-counter, and black-market drugs

Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics for Just Like A Woman. /  VIDEO

Marijuana Legalization Victories Are Already Ripping the Drug War Apart

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in two U.S. states limits that country’s “moral authority” to ask other nations to combat or restrict illegal drug trafficking.
Calderon says the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado represents a fundamental change that requires the rethinking of public policy in the entire Western Hemisphere.

Cops Say Legalize Drugs

A Brief History of Cannabis

The First Twelve Thousand Years

What Is The History Of Cannabis?

Why is Marijuana Illegal?

Former Cop to Rachel Maddow: Legalizing Pot is a "Win-Win"

It's not just hippies who want to legalize pot.  Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, former Baltimore cop and 32-year law enforcement veteran Neill Franklin spoke to Maddow about drug policy, but rather than defend the drug war, he  said it is time for President Barack Obama to lead in drug policy reform. 

“It’s a win-win because it has been drug prohibition like with marijuana that has driven a wedge in between police and community," said Franklin, "Number one, police can get back to the business that they want to do and that is to protect people from violent people — rape, robbery, murder, crimes against our children, domestic violence. We can get back to the business of that.”

420 PATIENTS

Santa Barbara Dr. Accused of Drug Trafficking Has Posted Bail

Santa Barbara Dr. Accused of Drug Trafficking Has Posted Bail  Photo:  Dr. Diaz on Milpas Street
Dr. Julio Diaz to be Target of Solvang Family’s Wrongful Death Lawsuit.  Attorney says suit to be filed in patient death linked to Santa Barbara physician accused of over prescribing pain medications.

Julio Diaz Support Foundation       (  OUR BACK YARD  )

January 2012 LA TIMES:  Dr. Julio Diaz has been under investigation for allegedly prescribing addictive painkillers and other commonly abused drugs to patients who had no legitimate need for the medications.
The affidavit details the deaths of 12 patients. A Times review of coroners' reports identified several additional cases in which patients were treated by Diaz or received prescriptions from him and later died of overdoses.
In an interview with The Times in October, Diaz initially said he was aware of only one fatal overdose within his practice. After being questioned by reporters about individual cases, he acknowledged multiple deaths and said he shared blame in some of them.
"I do feel responsible," Diaz said in the interview, conducted in an examination room in his two-story office, which is wedged between a sports bar and a discount store. "I was the one providing the medications and perhaps there were some hints there that I should have known they were going to overdose."
Looking back, he said, the overdoses "gave me a good lesson."
Among those who died: A 49-year-old father who overdosed on painkillers after recently completing a 60-day drug rehab; a 35-year-old mother found dead in her bedroom by her young daughter, who was hosting a friend for a sleepover; an out-of-work county bus driver who overdosed on painkillers and other drugs as she grew increasingly depressed over the upcoming anniversary of her 20-year-old son's overdose death, which she attributed to her son taking painkillers that Diaz had prescribed to her.
The woman's husband, Amos Barajas, was one of several deceased patients' loved ones who raised concerns about Diaz's alleged overprescribing.

DEA Agents Arrest ‘Candy Man’ ~ Accused of Facilitating Addiction and 11 Fatal Overdoses
A 77-page affidavit unsealed this week by the DOJ lists the medications that Diaz reportedly over-prescribed most often: Oxycontin, Percocet, Vicodin, Norco, Fentanyl, and Methadone, to name some. Most of these drugs are taken to relieve moderate to serious pain. Many are habit-forming, and extended use increases a patient’s tolerance. The affidavit explains that numerous area health practitioners – physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, pharmacists – had written to the state medical board in recent years, expressing concern about Diaz’s prescribing practices and the frequency in which his patients would overdose, experience withdrawal symptoms, or have other issues with their medications.
Diaz, known to many as the “Candy Man,” is also accused of trading pills for sex.

CRY FOR HELP, lost, alone and steps away from homeless.    PILLS FOR SEX LABOR
Sandy Parnell, the wife of the Governor of Alaska, described Sex Trafficking as “modern day slavery.”
Source: United States Attorney's Office   COMMENTS
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Where are Michael Stinchfield's mug shots? UPDATE: STANLEY TOMCHIN

Is he a white business man or something?  

If he is out on bail, we would like to know if we see him around.  

Santa Barbara Independent:  Police took Michael Stinchfield into custody at around 5 a.m. in his 1724 Garden Street home after officers witnessed the women with visible injuries screaming and fleeing and from the two-story residence. Just prior to that, multiple neighbors had called 911 reporting a disturbance.

Stinchfield, 55, is booked in County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, making criminal threats, attempted rape, sexual battery, false imprisonment, dissuading a victim from calling police, and a hate crime.

Police have so far released few details surrounding the incident, citing the open investigation. They did note that officers have had multiple contacts with Stinchfield in recent weeks and months, but couldn’t elaborate on those encounters at this time.

"Time to stop calling him 'Santa Barbara businessman.' New name? Santa Barbara perp.."  SHOREBIRD

Last month and his troubles made this headline: 

 Hour Long Pursuit Started in Ventura

Is this the same guy?

A judge gave these rich white men a ridiculously low get out of jail
bail but at least there were mug shots. That wasn't enough to end the abuse
or the life of crime.  Santa Barbara Criminal Court Corruption is alive and well.
Micheal Stinchfield isn't the only perp on the prowl.
(NOT A MUGSHOT)  KEYT-TV VIDEO

STANLEY TOMCHIN

UPDATE:  Another one bites the dust.  

Sports-Betting Kingpin Arrested in Santa Barbara

Feds: Stanley Tomchin a Top Player in National Gambling Ring 

with Suspected Mob Ties

The son of jailed mafia boss Vincent 'Vinny Gorgeous' Basciano has been arrested on charges of helping to run a $50 million betting ring that operated across five states from New York to California.

25 People Indicted for Involvement in Illegal Sports Betting Enterprise

Sandra, a successful businesswoman, lost everything: children, mother, home, business, health, EVERYTHING, to methamphetamine. She went to prison.

UPDATE: STINCHFIELD MUGSHOT

* "Another One Bites the Dust" 

Cops Say Legalize Drugs

Separate meth raids bring a dozen arrests in Santa Barbara  Jerry Boeff, Robert Bergere, Kelly Bergere, William Konrad

     DON'T DO METH EVEN ONCE   ~  STAY OFF THE PIPE

10 MOST DANGEROUS CITIES IN THE USA

Why do you think the drug war isn't being talked about in this election?  

LEAP co-founder, Peter Christ, appears on WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, NY and takes on all aspects of our disastrous War on Drugs. Captain Christ is vice-chair of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Buffalo Ranked 10th Most Dangerous City

Drug raid in Buffalo, NY, nets 640 ‘medicinal’ marijuana lollipops purchased in California

SAVAGES: America's backyard

Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone tackles the drug war in

America's backyard

Stone has a terrifying and convincing thesis as to why the film has to be set in America, with American characters: "The point," he says, "is that wars come home, they come home to roost. And there are connections: one of the two main guys has come home from Afghanistan and Iraq, and he's brought all that with him, what I think are new levels of cruelty and combat technology we have out there."

The thriller Savages is in the same brutal, druggy realm of Natural Born Killers, but Stone has evolved in the past decade and a half, and the new film has a deeper, more complicated perspective. The violence isn't a kick. It's horrifying, senseless. Amid the mayhem, you think, "It didn't have to go down this way."   Why does it? Business.

Oliver Stone's film, Savages, with  Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch,  Blake Lively ,
Salma Hayek, Benicio del Toro,  John Travolta ,  Demián Bichir...   C A S T
Dirty, Rotten, (Industrialized) ‘Savages’!

Salma Hayek’s Fierceness Is The Only Reason We Will Be Seeing Savages

Hayek had plenty to draw from in the lives of 

Griselda Blanco and the "La Reina del Pacífico" (Sandra Ávila Beltrán).

(Still at large though are such notorious female narcos as Ana Cristina Aguirre Monje)

The film is based on a book with the same name by Don Winslow, but while the book was released to acclaim, the film was released to mixed reviews.  The consensus is that the performances, with the exception of Blake Lively, are riveting. 

"How liberated from an agenda is this movie? 

Savages will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 13, 2012.  

WILL SAVAGES INFORM THE REST OF THE COUNTRY 

ABOUT THIS LITTLE SLICE OF AMERICAN BACKYARD? 

 Are homespun entrepreneurs/Pharma V the Mexican drug cartels coming to a turf near you?  Presidential contender Romney knows what American addicts have known for years, send the uninsured to a nearby hospital emergency room.  Some addicts go bi-weekly and are well known by staff.  "Yes every medic and ER doc knows... "  

Why not ask them?

"Drug addiction should be treated as a potentially fatal illness and not a crime"

Russell Brand

CRY FOR HELP/RUSSELL BRAND BEFORE COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE

"My problems have gotten worse. Now I am also dealing with health issues, and it is definite that I will be needing surgery some time in the next month or so. 
I was served an eviction notice yesterday and am facing that situation also.
I have zero income, no phone, no car, and soon no house. I am at a check mate position 
and just want to give up. I cant take this anymore."

Liver transplantation / Kidney transplantation

Lost, alone and steps away from homeless, it is not enough of a deterrent.  (the fastest-growing group of homeless people in the United States is composed of single women with two or three children)  The characters change, the locations change, the substances change, yet it is the same stories told time and again.  "After Helen persuades him that "Don the writer" and "Don the drunk" are the same person, Don finally commits to writing his novel The Bottle, dedicated to Helen, which will recount the events of the weekend. He drops a cigarette into a glass of whiskey rather than drink it. He recalls that while packing for his lost weekend his mind was on a bottle suspended just outside his window, he ponders, over a reversal of the opening shot, how many other people in New York City are in the same position as he." 1945 The Lost Weekend

It seems simple when it was just The Bottle.  Now there is an excess from street drugs to pharmaceuticals.  With no end in sight of tortured addicted souls.  Growing are the professionals who make it all too easy:   Emergency room doctors at a Santa Barbara hospital saw a disturbing trend for more than a decade – patient after patient hooked on prescription drugs shared the same physician.   Dr. Julio Gabriel Diaz  "In addition, two women taken to a hospital emergency room indicated they were among numerous people who used sex to pay Diaz for narcotics, according to an affidavit filed in the case."
"Yes every medic and ER doc knows him. His nickname is Dr. Candy. Yes, every time I ran a call and found his name on the bottles, I documented it. As did Cottage hospital. We and they can only do so much and document so much. However, there is nothing more we could do but document and file complaints. For whatever reason, someone decided to take us seriously and take the next step. It is a shame it took so long."

Drug addiction should be treated as a potentially fatal illness and not a crime, 

comedian Russell Brand has told a parliamentary select committee.

RUSSELL BRAND BEFORE COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE

THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS WORTH A LISTEN.

  There is a bit of a culture clash here which makes his words and reactions to the committee members comments all the more valuable.  Parliament UK


Brand told MPs that more money should be devoted to treating and educating drug users, instead of punishing them, and suggested that ministers should consider decriminalisation.
What Happened When Portugal Decriminalized Drugs?
Santa Barbara girl Katy Perry & Russell Brand Are Now Official DIVORCED!!

Teenage Russell Brand  Ay ay ay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This story blows away all those “Faces of Meth” ads

Jael Strauss was on Cycle 8 of America’s Next Top Model  five years ago looking gorgeous, and now her face is ravaged by a six-year meth, cocaine, and painkiller addiction (that’s right, she was using while on the show.) She is unrecognizable now, and her family staged an intervention on Dr. Phil.

FALLING APART WITH DR.PHIL

Consider this your 

“Don’t do drugs” 

PSA for the day.

(Jael’s mother initially believes her daughter is addicted to Vicodin, Oxycontin, 

and possibly meth.  Jael agrees to rehab)

A former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant who we haven’t seen in a long time
is headed back to our television sets, but this time the reason is not so pleasant. Jael Strauss, who participated in the 8th cycle of Tyra Banks’ model competition,
is set to appear on an intervention-style episode of “Dr. Phil” tomorrow when her family confronts her about her addiction to methamphetamine.

Where are the models of ANTM now?

America’s Next Top Model Winner CariDee English 

Describes How Sucky It Is To Win ANTM

FACES OF METH

Stay off the pipe!
Officials said containment of the blaze, which quickly lapped up a hillside during the height of Friday's rush-hour commute and prompted temporary closure of the Getty Center, remained at 40%, a figure reached by Friday night.

Stay off the pipe!

... and do something about sucking on those nicotine sticks!

* It is being called the worst fire season of the decade *

This is when it gets disheartening to see workers with cigarettes hanging from their mouth.  Why can't they wait to take a break?  Hiring cheap labor isn't always the best answer, but that is how some of the old Santa Barbara privileged like to roll. Old families like tradition and they've made hiring under the table to escape labor costs a way of life.  They do it year after year and it works for them.  They don't seem to mind if they depend on henchmen to keep the crews in line, some sick stories are told in the hills of beautiful Santa Barbara.  Everyone else is not as happy with that arrangement, most of all during fire season.   Sure methheads need work too, but can't you find a foreman that can stay off the pipe?

It hasn't been that long since evacuating a large part of town was reality.  Yes, it could be worse if a fire sweeps down into our little tinder box of a town, no one is that safe.  And here we sit at the mercy of faulty equipment, wealthy cheapskates full of pride with how they play their slave labor games.

Red flag fire warning issued; 

lightning, gusty winds possible

Southern California fire danger to rise Wednesday

Memories are short.

    2009 Cody Duncan:  Here’s a few more pics of the Jesusita fire

 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters struggled Friday to get ahead of a raging wildfire that has moved dangerously close to heavily populated areas around this idyllic coastal city and forced the evacuation of an roughly 30,000 people.


Larry Williamson saved his Mountain Drive home from the Tea Fire. He was unable to save his Electric Truck.

Tagged ‘Santa Barbara fire’

millionaire meth
Life while using Meth is time spent waiting for death
Rich man, poor man, methamphetamine

BREAKING BAD

With 2.9 million viewers, ratings are up 14% over the Season 4 premiere. 
Episode 501: Breaking Bad Season 5, Episode 1...  Watch episode 501,
“Live Free or Die” in its entirety for free on AMCtv.com: Walt faces the aftermath of the blast.

"Breaking Bad" may be the best argument against drug dealing TV has ever made.

BREAKING BAD FACEBOOK

Bleak, Brutal, Brilliant 'Breaking Bad': Inside the Smash Hit That Almost Never Got Made

Breaking Bad Wiki is a collaborative website built by fans about the "best show on television," Breaking Bad. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so anyone can help create this site.

REVIEWS

NEWSDAY Remains a marvel

METACRITIC Breaking Bad: Season 5
Chicago Sun-Times ~ People Weekly ~ Entertainment Weekly ~ Salon ~ Boston Herald et al

The Bottom Line:  Fresh from his season four "victory" over Gus Fring, Walter White is now in charge. And he's loving it. Jesse is back, Mike is sort of back, wife Skyler's early fears may be masking what she really feels inside and series creator Vince Gilligan appears to have done it again. It's not a matter of wondering if Breaking Bad will be great, but where in the pantheon it will ultimately reside.  THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

AMC will live stream 'Breaking Bad' season premiere for Dish subscribers

RICH MAN, POOR MAN SANTA BARBARA METHAMPHETAMINE

BAD, BAD GIRLS

Bad Girls: NarcoModelo and Mobster's elderly lover

Angie Sanselmente Valencia trained other models to move “beeks” (cocaine) across various borders.

"I am thinking facebook or twitter posts would be a bad idea for a wanted drug dealer!"
March 26, 2010 Angie Sanclemente Valencia: Wanted Drug Dealer Posts on Facebook!

Las fotos de Angie Sanclemente en Facebook

WIKI ~ Angie Sanclemente Valencia

INTERNATIONAL 'Narco Queen' busted

Angie Sanclemente Valencia – Fotos – video

Thursday 3 November 2011 Colombian beauty queen jailed for role in drug smuggling racket

Angie Sanclemente Valencia, nicknamed narcomodelo, sentenced to six years and eight months in prison in Argentina

Angie is possibly the sexiest real criminal in the history of mankind. 

Lindsey Lohan eat your heart out.

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How the War on Drugs Hurts Women:  The report argues that the US-backed military and police in Honduras, Mexico, and Guatemala, which are ostensibly being funded to fight drug cartels, are actually part of the problem, “committing abuses and stirring up more violence.
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CATHERINE GREIG

WIKI ~ Catherine Greig

June 20, 2011  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking to elderly women to help them locate one of the country’s most wanted criminals.  The agency announced yesterday that new pleas for information in its search for 81-year-old James “Whitey” Bulger will focus on his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig.
Apprehended on June 22, 2011 - After 16 years on the run from law enforcement, Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, was arrested in Santa Monica with his longtime companion, Catherine Greig, 60, who fled Massachusetts with the gangster in late 1994.

August 11, 2011 Crime boss "Whitey" Bulger's girlfriend indicted 

4-19-12  Greig’s sister (Margaret McCusker) wants US lien on home lifted
May 22, 2012 Judge lets Greig’s sister access frozen account to pay bills
JUN 11, 2012 Whitey Bulger’s girlfriend faces sentencing

Whitey Bulger’s Women: Inside the Terror and Glamour of His Ex-Girlfriends

Jun 12, 2012 Judge indicates that longtime girlfriend of Boston mobster Bulger will get longer prison term.  Judge mulls long sentence for Mass mobster's lover.

Catherine Greig called ‘cold-hearted criminal’ by Timothy Connors, whose father was murdered 37 years ago today.  “You are as much a criminal as Whitey, and you ought to be handled as such,’’ Connors said to Greig at her sentencing hearing in US District Court. “You are a cold-hearted criminal.”

Catherine Greig was sentenced to eight years in prison, and was admonished by the judge for her loyalty and support of wanted mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger. Catherine Greig posed as Bulger's wife, picked up his medicine, and helped him while he evaded the FBI for 16 years.
June 21, 2012 1 year after mobster’s capture, few changes for some of alleged victims’ families

JULY 01, 2012 Greig’s role in Bulger’s flight merits no romanticism

Bad. bad girls

Sheriff's Narcotics Detectives Arrest Six in Drug Bust 

bad, bad boys ~ 

William Paxson ~ William Konrad ~ Jerry Boeff ~ Paul Woellert ...

Bad. bad girls

bad girl Francine Gabel Sheriff's Narcotics Detectives Arrest Six in Drug Bust bad, bad boys ~ William Paxson ~ Jerry Boeff ~ Paul Woellert ~ William Konrad ~ 

BAD GIRLS
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
Live fast, die young
Bad girls do it well
My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the dashboard
My chain hits my chest
When I'm banging on the radio
Get back, get down
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
Hands up, hands tied
Don't go screaming if I blow you with a bang
Suki Zuki
I'm coming in the Cherokee
Gasoline
There's steam on the window screen
Take it, take it
Wheel's bouncing like a trampoline
When I get to where I'm going, gonna have you trembling
Yeah back it, back it
Yeah pull up to the bumper game

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"They have already completed several jobs," he said. "They have long or short weapons (...) They are accompanied by men and they get out down to do the job. "  

The armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel (La Linea), which operates on the border of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso is recruiting and training dozens of young, pretty women as sicarios (hired assassins), said a captured sicario hired by the criminal organization.

High-risk riches for Mexico's ‘narco wives’

"Cocaine Cowboys"The film explores the rise of cocaine and resulting crime epidemic that swept the American city of Miami, Florida in the 1970s and 1980s. The producers of Cocaine Cowboys use interviews with law enforcement, journalists, lawyers, former drug smugglers and gang members to provide a first hand perspective of the Miami drug war.
Also documented in the film is
the gangland violence associated with the trade. The interviewees in the film argue that Griselda Blanco, an infamous crime family matriarch, played a major role in the history of the drug trade in Miami and other cities across America. It was the lawless and corrupt atmosphere, primarily from Blanco's operations, that led to the gangsters' being dubbed the "Cocaine Cowboys".

                                                            Sandra Ávila Beltrán

                  The Mexican drug cartel queen who got Botox in prison

Beltrán (born 1960, Baja California, Mexico) is a Mexican drug cartel leader, dubbed "La Reina del Pacífico" (The Queen of the Pacific) by the media. She was arrested on September 28, 2007 and charged with organized crime and conspiracy to traffic drugs; Some charges were later dropped but she is still being held for possession of illegal weapons and money laundering, pending her extradition to the U.S.
Mexican and U.S. officials consider she was an important link between the Sinaloa Cartel in
Mexico and the Colombian Norte del Valle Cartel.

Homeland Security, Lieberman, Chaney, McCain, Palin, Tripp

Things that make you go hmmmmm...

video

Mexican Drug Wars Documentary part 1
SPUNOUT

Rich man, poor man, methamphetamine

Big Santa Barbara drug bust! Does crime pay? You look at the house and tell me!
Wow a big meth bust in Santa Barbara recently and the Santa Barbara news press missed reporting on one of the story’s. Of the 2 meth bust that occurred I am interested in The second Meth bust that took place at 2078 Las Canoas 93105 home of William Paxson.

The information below was taken from Sheriff’s web page in regards to the drug bust and is in the middle of posting.
“William Paxson – 11550(a) H&S – Under the influence of a controlled substance, 11364 H&S – Possession of drug paraphernalia, 11366 H&S – Maintaining a dwelling for drug use/sales. Bail was set at $2,500.”

Really 2500 bail, wow Santa Barbara District Attorneys are really going after the white over 60, living in 2 Million dollar home “Gangsters’ that’s O.G. baby! During my harassment and 5 different illegal arrests I had bail any where from 20,000 to 100,000 for words I never said. Worse than that there is a current rumor that law enforcement caught one of there own in these arrest, can that be true? Take a look at the house yourself! *Magic in Santa Barbara June 7, 2010

 Magic in Santa Barbara makes sense, the paper of record did not report the Mission Canyon drug bust. They just don't report on any of their friends or associates, that is how they roll. $2,500 bail? Was the fix already in? 

After a three month long investigation which included complaints and information from the general public, Narcotics Detectives arrested six subjects suspected of dealing and using Methamphetamine during the search warrant in the 2000 block of Las Canoas Rd. in Santa Barbara. * Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department

  DON'T DO METH VIDEO

    It is curious, after a three month long investigation, or was it six months?  Either way it was a heavy burden on the taxpayers to fund that investigation.  The public deserves good results and to keep the criminals off the streets.  Why is all that money spent to bust an operation at a remodeled million dollar property?  Who do you think is doing any time?  We heard more rumors about grand larceny and mysterious high end  collections gone missing. I don't know if one of law enforcement's own was caught but from the sound of it there was a den of thieves and they were ratting on one another.  They also blame the police.  Was law enforcement on the in or out of one of the planned heists?  One miscreant is still at his old game and none of that helps the addiction.  The next time they are caught it may not go so well for them, but for now, not much has changed.  Including the legal system that is so soft for rich, old and white dudes. The area’s methamphetamine problems have not improved and the County is throwing away money.

How is it the general public would know what goes on behind closed doors in Mission Canyon?  They don't, it was all inside the circle of wheelers and dealers.  The rumor about an inside job makes more sense.  An extensive investigation of a millionaire's bust is one thing.  for another, why was bail so low?  No reporting in the Santa Barbara News-Press and no follow up in any local media.  Although some of the culprits were repeat offenders, rumors of pedophilia and suspects in far more serious crimes.  Why do they get off so easy and why isn't the public warned?

 United forever and a day:  William Konrad, Paul A. Woellert, Jerry M. Boeff, William Pickett Paxson, Blue Major, Francine Marie Gabel
The ladies that get entangled are the ones most damaged.  The never ending cycle of dependency and addiction is death to their souls.  Before and after methamphetamine.  It only gets worse and worse and worse.

 SANTA BARBARA — Symptomatic of the area’s methamphetamine problem, sheriff’s officials this week conducted raids on two individual drug rings operating in close proximity to one another.
The first investigation led narcotics officers into the upscale residential foothill area high above the famed Santa Barbara Mission on Las Canoas Road. An ongoing series of neighborhood complaints from local community members initially alerted sheriff’s detectives to a specific house, upon which search warrants were served on May 25.
* Crime Voice

Rich man, poor man, methamphetamine.  In the Washington Post story of a Santa Barbara County bust bail was set at $30,000 each.
"Drug dealer mistakenly sends messages to Calif. police officer to sell methamphetamine"  May 30, 2012

These dealers called in there own bust, no expensive investigation. $30,000 bail for each.  Doesn't that tell you something?