A man who returned a rental car allegedly forgot to take along 88 bags of heroin he had left in the car. Employees of an Enterprise Rent-A-Car agency called police and reported finding the drugs hidden under a layer of napkins in the car's console, authorities said. Using information found in the wallet the man also left behind, Detective Daniel Baranoski of nearby Middletown contacted Robert Laguerre, posing as someone who had found the heroin, and told him he wanted to return the drugs for a reward, authorities said. Baranoski set up a meeting with Laguerre at a mall in this Philadelphia suburb, and Laguerre was arrested when he arrived, police said. Laguerre was arraigned Thursday on charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. He had been released from a New Jersey prison in April after serving time for heroin distribution. Enterprise spokesman Lee Broughton said people often leave bizarre things in rental cars, but this was the first time he had heard of heroin. This dumb dumb must have taken his own stuff
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Shouldn't one of the rules of drug-dealing be: Don't do it if you have a bad memory?
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First of all, it is one of the few 'hard' drugs that if you can get a regular supply @ good quality you can use for 20-30 years with marginal health effects.
Second, it would be superb as a pharmaceutical narcotic for many types of terrible pain--far better than lots of the legal drugs used today.
Third, it remains illegal, while dozens of almost chemically similar narcotics are legal by prescription. Go figure.
Fourth, Methadone is just as addictive, and no less harmful. So junkies just become addicted to it instead of heroin. What is accomplished here, except making the owners of Methadone clinics wealthy?
Fifth, there is a process by which an addict can be taken off heroin in four days, with a low recitivism rate. Three drugs are used: one puts them in a coma for four days, one cleans the heroin from their system, and the third blocks the heroin receptors for a month or two. The death rate from the coma drug is about 1 in 1000, so the US won't even test the process, instead leaving tens of thousands of junkies to suffer for the rest of their lives.
A German supermarket check-out worker stashed the day's takings into her shoes and hit herself over the head, pretending she had been held up and attacked by a robber, Bavarian police said on Thursday. The 26 year-old woman told police she was alone in the south German store when a masked man forced her at gun-point to fill his pockets and several bags with money from the shop's cash box before knocking her unconscious with a blow to her head. Police became suspicious after medical examinations revealed the woman's head injury didn't match up to her description of the attack. The woman then confessed she had hit herself on the head with a blunt object and stolen the money to pay off debts
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