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Friday, July 30, 2010
UPDATE: Five people busted in heroin ring
Edward Lewis elewis@timesleader.com
KINGSTON – One of three types of heroin allegedly sold by five people busted by authorities Wednesday night was called OBAMA with an imprint of the presidential candidate on packets, said Frank Noonan, regional director for the state Office of Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and Drug Control.
The heroin packets siezed in an overnight drug bust were being sold under the name "Obama 09".
Times Leader Photo / Aimee Dilger
"I've never seen a stamp like that before," Noonan said during a news conference Thursday morning.
Noonan said the five people arrested were part of a heroin distribution ring in Edwardsville, Kingston and Wilkes-Barre.
Five people - Christopher Allen, 25, also known as Face, Jennifer Catanzariti, 24, Derek Reich, 20, Jessica Lynn Deshazo, 31, and Sirelle Buscemi, 21 - were charged with various drug offenses, including corrupt organization and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. They were arraigned by District Judge Paul Roberts in Kingston and jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.
Deputy State Attorney General Tim Doherty said the five, if convicted, face a maximum sentence of 48 years in state prison.
Undercover agents with the Luzerne County Drug Task Force and state Attorney General's Office began the investigation in August.
Kingston Police Chief Keith Keiper said neighbors told him about a residence on Ross Street, Kingston, while he walked his dog.
From there, drug agents used informants to purchase heroin from the Ross Street residence and at arranged locations in the area.
Noonan said Catanzariti moved from Ross Street to a residence on Oakwood Lane, Wilkes-Barre, where Allen supplied her with four packets of heroin a day in exchange to sell heroin from the city residence.
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43 COMMENTS
Liz said...
get rid of all these junkies they are ruining our towns thank you
Ed said...
The amount of low life in the area is "Endless". Make these drug dealing and taking scum spend 10 years minimum in prison. Nobody forced them to put it in there bodies. They get hooked and everyone else has to deal with the trash.
TJ said...
Great job on the part of the police. Keep rounding up this scum, and it WILL make a difference. For those of you who continue to put down the police, shame on you and IN YOUR FACE.
former resident said...
Good job Kingston PD. A testimate as to the reason why police officers should be required to reside in (or relatively close to) the town they patrol.
Tax Payer x20 said...
VOTE OBAMA and Support Welfare!!! I guess these 5 are the Community Organizers.
eFfNcRaYz said...
more scums off the street....thats like almost a dozen this week....no kids involved this time....you drug bags are freakin worthless...get a job, get a life, or get out of our town
BOB said...
I understand the concept of addiction......But what on God's earth were you thinking, the very first time you stuck a needle in your arm...unless you were living under a rock all your life you had to realize that maybe, just maybe, this wasnt a good idea. Therefore my sympathy for you is minimal, at best.
Jack said...
CHANGE...we need !!! Where's OBAMA ? wHAT'S HE GOING TO DO TO GET RID OF THIS LOW LIFE?
anonymous said...
LOTS more in Edwardsville. Don't stop now.
TomfromWB said...
"Obama" packets of heroin sold in Republican Kingston? ....no irony there....
me said...
ya or vote for macain and lose your job,pay more in gas and food prices and still support the walfare....there you go. wheres your brain
Jeremy said...
Get used to seeing more people around like this. The democrats believe that they all deserve a second chance and 9 out of 10 times they go back to their old lifestyle within 5 years. This should be a wakeup for all of you people voting for bHUSSEINo.
me said...
yea and vote for macain and keep paying high gas prices and food,lose your job, house and everything you worked hard for your entire life) and still come out supporting the system because there will no jobs out there to go to. i think the rep. need to take a good look at the whole picture before they vote for macain. ya obama may be black but this isnt 1950s the world has change. like ive always said there good and bad blacks just like theres good and bad whites.
said...
IF THEY GO TO THE GREAT EXCAPE BAR IN WILKES-BARRE THEY CAN GET ALL THE DRUGS THEY WANT
Fletch said...
Prison is too kind and only results in taxpayer expense. The US really needs to follow the lead of Southeast Asia and put drug trafficers to death.
Martin said...
Isnt the Great Escape bar owned by a couple of wilkes barre cops ?hmmmmm
Proud of our law enforcement, sick of addicts and democrats! said...
To the person that said it was ironic,"Obama" packets of heroin sold in Republican Kingston? ....no irony there.... If you READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE they were from Democrat Edwardsville and Democrat Wilkes Barre! "Noonan said the five people arrested were part of a heroin distribution ring in Edwardsville, Kingston and Wilkes-Barre." I GUESS IT WAS THEIR WAY OF "GETTING OUT THE VOTE!"
..... said...
wow...reading all these comments really reminds me of just how uneducated on drug trafficing wilkes-barre and surrounding area residents really are. do u honestly think these people were really doing the drugs? of course not...their selling them. the drug dealing scene is only going to get worse, whether obama or mc cain is in office. the scarey part about it all is that the police are giving the people buying these drugs deals on jail in exchange for information but what they dont realize is that as soon as they give a lead they run back to that same person to get their fix for the day. everybody is so quick to blame it on people moving from bigger cities thinking that wilkes-barre is an easy place to make good money and not get caught....the truth is...it is.
me said...
why are you talking about junkies these people are the drug dealers but i am glad you are finally doing something about it around here if the drugs are more and more off the streets there will be less drug addicts.
jerry said...
The judges and the lawyers will find a loop hole on violation of rights that will put this scum right back on the streets.And the police get frustrated and dont even bother arresting them becouse they already know what will happen in the end.Thats why this scum comes to wyoming valley to do there drug dealing.
thom said...
"I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this heroin packet."
thom said...
Put them to death or at least life in prison (and I mean REAL prison, like no air cond, cable tv, gym, etc)
BAK said...
I appriciate getting the dope off of the street. And its hard enough for blacks in this area trying to break the stereo type... And now we have these jerks putting the future presidents name on some dope... THANKS GUYS
Charles r Cox said...
it all starts in the home bring back the right to discpline your child physicly we need more adult intervention in the lives of our youth. People that have ample time need to mentor kids that are without stability . Something has seriously went wrong in N.E.P.A . I read your papers every day from St. Augustine Fla. There may be one or two Heroin bust in St. Johns county were I live. Al the drugs are coming from phila. There was a sherriff in volusia county years ago , named Ralph Vogel , he had stero-typing cars, that were trafficing drugs down interstate 95. He would take the money seized in these drug hauls, and re-invest it into state off the art crime fighting equipment to have some what of an edge on the drug runnere. My heart sincerly goes out to the fine tax paying citizens of N.E.P.A
Ziggy said...
hmmm, Obama heroin, probably complimentary, that's one way to get his message out to his constituents and mantain them in their usual stupor. Whoever would vote for Obama would have to be on drugs. Dealers/users should be sterilized so they can't procreate welfare babies.
paulejb said...
Well now we know who the Obama voters are. You would have to be drug addled to vote for this left wing loon.
George Carlin said...
This one is too easy. I waited until all of the programmed, knee jerk reactionaries had their say. It's true, a lot of people are medicating themselves at YOUR expense because You don't KNOW any better. Let's sum up the self-succesfuls arguments. I am NOT my Brothers Keeper and I am better than them because I have... fill in the blank... and I think Hitler oops I mean George Bush is the best.
JDK said...
I doubt the five people selling it were users or "junkies" so making statements about getting the low life off the streets is only talking about his customers, the dealers were making money off their habits.
TJ said...
Drug pushers and users were around a loooong time before the Obama and McCain run. Grow up people.
said...
tim doherty is ajoke
len said...
dumb buggers don"t even know what year it is
dz said...
Hopeium
pete said...
if they're tried in Luzerne Co. courts 48yrs. actually mean 6 months probation
Jay said...
Isn't this illegal under campaign finance reform? LOL !
cmon said...
i really doubt this has anything to do with obama so lets stay focused here and deal with the fact that the drug trafficing and drug using and selling in this area is getting so crazy and needs to really be stopped. i am glad they have been getting these people but we really need to get things done or this epidemic with herion in this area is going to spread even more. i have never seen so much over doses and drug addicts in my life around here and i useto actually live in a city in new jersey. we need to start blaming the drug dealers for being lazy and making a quick buck off of someones life and they should do time that is deserved to start realizing by dealing drugs to someone is killing them slowing and can acutally kill them all together it is considered attempted murder so lets start throwing the book at them and stop worry about the minor actions of the drug addicts who they are supplying there habbit to... people!!!
NOBAMA ever said...
Obama heroin, it's taken from a scene in the Denzel Washington Gangster movie! I wonder if Obama get a piece of pie, the money goes to the Domestic Terrorist the weather Underground and Willam Aryers! Di you know 4 more Under Ground Weathermen endorsed Obama under the Progressive party or the COMMUNIST PARTY! I leave you with a U Tube link PAS this On to EVERYONE BEFORE THE TAKE IT DOWN! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4
bonae said...
What is Barack Obama's proposed Policy on Illegal Drug Laws. Does Barack Obama support a National Law that resembles the Rockefeller Laws in New York?
Bill said...
Funny how you forgot to mention that these poison peddlers had a John McCain sign on their front porch!
Typical White Person said...
Well, guess we know who the drug dealers endorse!
A friend said...
i watched aLL my friends go to jail that nightm
funner said...
48 years... wow, what a joke.
heinous said...
Obama is a drug he feels oh so good but he is oh so bad i think they were making a great point with putting him on their baggies of Heroin
Linda said...
Have you ever read the short story "Man Without A Country"? The man in the story was unjustly exiled from his homeland. His sentence: to stay aboard a barge overlooking coast; never again to set foot on his homelands' soil. This sentenced should be should be imposed on all "drug pushers" in the USA. And, for any illegals; immediate removal from the USA. No prison time here either....get them out of here. Let their home country feed, house, cloth, and provide them medical care, Appeals, etc.