Local law enforcement and Federal authorities raided a handful of head shops here on Monday. I'm not really here to talk about the merits of confiscating a handful of bongs, lol, but the article about it raids is just funny as hell as far as related things that happened.
Here's the full article:
Head shops remain open after taking hit from U.S.
And here's some of my favorite portions of the above:
A raid at one of the shops, Heads-N-Threads in North Huntingdon, led to additional arrests -- some of the easiest township police have ever made, according to Chief Charles Henaghan.
"While we were there, we kind of got an added bonus," he said. "Customers were coming in to purchase the illegal items."
To do that, they had to walk past two marked police cars outside the shop on U.S. Route 30.
It gets better, lol.
One woman walked up to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was wearing a marked shirt, pointed to a pot pipe and told him that she wanted to buy a pipe "just like that." The pipe was in a bag marked "evidence."
Maybe she thought it was some kinda promotion??? *shrug*
Some of the shoppers arrived carrying drugs or paraphernalia. Township police confiscated an unknown amount of suspected heroin and marijuana, plus several pot pipes and cash.
"It was almost hard to believe," Henaghan said. "I don't know how to characterize it -- as naivete or stupidity or whatever -- to walk into a store when you have uniformed officers standing there and try to buy something illegal from them. I really don't know what it says about our society."
The customers made no effort to hide contraband they had when they walked in.
"One individual had the bag of marijuana sticking out of his back pocket," Henaghan said.
Another had a large bag of marijuana in his clothing, along with several packets of heroin and more than $1,700 in cash. Others were carrying pot pipes. Police also confiscated a pizza box filled with marijuana.
Ummmm... pizza. And just to show that the DEA has a sense of humor, the name of the operation that led to these raids is called Operation Pipe Dreams
I'm almost in tears after reading this, lol. Too funny.
Here's the full article:
Head shops remain open after taking hit from U.S.
And here's some of my favorite portions of the above:
A raid at one of the shops, Heads-N-Threads in North Huntingdon, led to additional arrests -- some of the easiest township police have ever made, according to Chief Charles Henaghan.
"While we were there, we kind of got an added bonus," he said. "Customers were coming in to purchase the illegal items."
To do that, they had to walk past two marked police cars outside the shop on U.S. Route 30.
It gets better, lol.
One woman walked up to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was wearing a marked shirt, pointed to a pot pipe and told him that she wanted to buy a pipe "just like that." The pipe was in a bag marked "evidence."
Maybe she thought it was some kinda promotion??? *shrug*
Some of the shoppers arrived carrying drugs or paraphernalia. Township police confiscated an unknown amount of suspected heroin and marijuana, plus several pot pipes and cash.
"It was almost hard to believe," Henaghan said. "I don't know how to characterize it -- as naivete or stupidity or whatever -- to walk into a store when you have uniformed officers standing there and try to buy something illegal from them. I really don't know what it says about our society."
The customers made no effort to hide contraband they had when they walked in.
"One individual had the bag of marijuana sticking out of his back pocket," Henaghan said.
Another had a large bag of marijuana in his clothing, along with several packets of heroin and more than $1,700 in cash. Others were carrying pot pipes. Police also confiscated a pizza box filled with marijuana.
Ummmm... pizza. And just to show that the DEA has a sense of humor, the name of the operation that led to these raids is called Operation Pipe Dreams
I'm almost in tears after reading this, lol. Too funny.
