INDIANAPOLIS: Police Arrest 25 In Meth Probe. Authorities Say Ring Made Drugs in MEXICO

INDIANA STAR ^ | 12-7-02 | Shannon Tan

[Joe Hadenuf]

Authorities say ring made drugs in Mexico, then distributed them at a Westside car lot.

Authorities cracked down on one of central Indiana's largest methamphetamine trafficking organizations Friday, arresting 25 people and searching 14 homes.

The multiagency investigation found that the organization was trafficking more than 100 pounds of methamphetamine a month out of a Westside auto dealership.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Who were those posters that thought that all the store signs in Indianapolis being in Spanish was a wonderful thing, and that the huge influx of illegal aliens into Indiana was just a great thing? And they thought that the new Mexican Consulate opening up in Indianapolis was just peachy.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Joe Hadenuf]

Thought you all may be interested.........

[Joe Hadenuf]

Mexican Consulate Opens In Downtown Indianapolis. (Shop after shop, sign after sign in Spanish) WISHTV 8 | 11-2-02

The Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis will be open for business Monday. It's an office that will serve a group of people that's growing rapidly in our city and state. Mayor Bart Peterson's office has worked for about two years with the Mexican government and the state of Indiana to get this consulate opened.

You don't have to look hard to see why the consulate is needed. Drive down Washington Street a few miles west of downtown, and you'll see the fruits of our Hispanic and Latino community's labor. Shop after shop, sign after sign in Spanish. There are now some 34,000 Latinos and Hispanics in Indianapolis, and 60% of them are Mexican.

[FITZ]

What's this??? I thought none of those were criminals and were there to make Indianapolis a safe city with nicer neighborhoods?

[FITZ]

The Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis will be open for business Monday. It's an office that will serve a group of people that's growing rapidly in our city and state.

Soon more people will catch onto what the Mexican government is really all about. These are drug cartel networks being set up, they control almost all drugs coming into the US and they have control over all their politicians and some of ours. People wonder how so many illegal drugs can get into the US ---but some of the drug lords can appear on the surface to be very nice people. They just have a whole lot of money.

[txhurl]

The reason it was produced in Mexico instead of Indianapolis is that a critical component, red phosphorus, is nearly impossible to acquire in the US anymore.

[Miss Marple]

The owners of the stores were not the people who were making the meth. We also have a HUGE problem with meth in rural southern Indiana, manufactured by native Hoosiers.

I imagine the Mexicans were responding to the market. They broke the law. They were arrested and will go to jail.

I am not going to change my position, and you can go pound sand.

[FITZ]

Q. Why is meth use so prevalent in the Midwest?

A: The region's methamphetamine epidemic stems from two problems:

steadily increasing importation of methamphetamine into the region by organized trafficking groups; and
clandestine manufacturing of methamphetamine by hundreds of users/dealers in small "mom and pop" labs.
Seizures of clandestine labs in the Midwest have increased from 44 in 1995 to more than 500 in 1997. In fact, the state of Missouri led the nation in 1997 in the number of meth labs seized.

Twenty Mexican methamphetamine trafficking organizations have been identified by DEA as being involved in the Midwest, which is connected via major interstate highways, rail and air to the West and Southwest border areas that serve as importation, manufacturing and staffing areas for the Mexican operations.

http://www.kci.org/meth_info/faq_meth.htm

[FITZ]

According to the El Paso Intelligence Center, the methamphetamine seized annually in transit from Mexico to the United States has increased dramatically since 1992. Authorities seized 560 kilograms of methamphetamine along the border in 1998, compared with only 6.5 kilograms seized in 1992. To expand their distribution systems, Mexico-based traffickers use methods such as exploiting the presence of a large number of honest Mexican-American workers in the meat processing plants of the Midwest and in the forest industry in the Northwest to insert surrogates into many U.S. communities, explaining why meth has become a major problem in states like Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Washington. Source: U.S. Department of Justice

[Joe Hadenuf]

They broke the law. They were arrested and will go to jail.

To bad, for every one arrested, at least 50 or more, wont get caught.

Maybe the new Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis will assist these poor disadvantaged people.

I am not going to change my position, and you can go pound sand.

Thanks for that. It's makes it very clear who you consider the enemy to be. No need to identify yourself. I already have yours. LOL!

[Joe Hadenuf]

What's this??? I thought none of those were criminals and were there to make Indianapolis a safe city with nicer neighborhoods?

Well, that's what I was told. All hard working family people.

Someone lied to us!

[nanny]

[Who were those posters that thought that all the store signs in Indianapolis being in Spanish was a wonderful thing, and that the huge influx of illegal aliens into Indiana was just a great thing?]

Now, Joe, you know there could be absolutely no connection between our open border, the huge influx of illegals and drugs - don't you? Why all those store owners in Indianapolis are just hard-working people, looking for a better life, doing the things Americans won't do. There is no connection - none what so ever. How dare you. (sarcasm)

[Joe Hadenuf]

Pathetic isn't it?

And some of these folks that buy into this, actually vote and drive cars!

[FITZ]

The sad thing is ---some are but you gotta take the bad with the good it seems. Some of the bad is really very bad though. We've had a drug lord executed on I-10 here in rush hour traffic downtown. It kind of upsets people but when the drug lord wars are raging things get less pleasant.

[FITZ]

Whether people like it or not, Mexico is the biggest drug dealing, drug importing country in the world. Individual Mexicans can be the most honest people you could ever meet but their society and culture is disintegrating because of corruption mad much worse by the illegal drug trade. In Ciudad Juarez one recent week, there were 17 assasinations in just one week. That town went from mostly being safe to being a very dangerous place in just a few years.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Actually, with Meth, things are never good. It makes people go crazy. Use enough of that crap, and everyone becomes your enemy. A real nasty drug.

Isn't it great to see the newly arrived Mexican immigrants in Indianapolis pushing this stuff?

[Joe Hadenuf]

Whether people like it or not, Mexico is the biggest drug dealing, drug importing country in the world

Unfortunately, the good folks in Indiana are finding this out. Or soon will be.

[txhurl]

The reason meth use is so common everywhere is that you can take $200 worth of ingredients and convert it to $1500 worth of finished product in less time than it takes to do a load of laundry.

Looks like it's here to stay.

[txhurl]

And that's in 2002 dollars, not 1982! LOL