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...smuggled into the U.S. Most of the stuff comes from Turkey, Communist China and Thailand, moves through processing plants in France, then is passed by racketeers to dope pushers on street corners, in barrooms and pool halls. Last year the Bureau of Customs seized nearly 1,500 oz. of heroin, 48,000 oz. of marijuana at U.S. ports and borders. That is a big haul, but not nearly big enough. The smuggling trade is still profitable enough to satisfy the needs of the nation's 48,000 narcotic addicts, 23,000 of whom live in New York City alone...
...agent in France, posing as a gangland dope racketeer, arranged a buy from an international narcotics ring. French police closed in just as a batch of heroin was delivered to the agent. The deliveryman shot his way free, but he and the gang's ringleaders were arrested later. > In late 1962, agents got wind of a pair of brothers who were peddling heroin in New York-one taking orders in his East Harlem clothing and toy store, the other delivering the "junk" in his taxicab. An undercover agent made a buy of 102 gm. of heroin...
...agents boarded an express truck delivering baggage to a building in Hoboken, NJ. When two men later left the building with the bags, the agents arrested them, recovered 687 kg. of marijuana and 202 gm. of heroin. Baggage checks taken from one of the captives led to caches of narcotics at railroad stations in Poughkeepsie and Albany, N.Y., and Philadelphia. >- In April 1963, a narcotics agent in Turkey wormed his way into the confidence of a band of international traffickers headed by the former mayor of a Turkish city. The agent arranged to buy 18 kg. of morphine base...
...judge. This is the loneliest responsibility you face on the bench - the moment when you must sentence a convicted man. The defendant now standing before you is Negro, 53 years old, a first offender who has been found guilty on 14 counts involving sales of marijuana and heroin. During his trial, you saw that he was adamant in denying guilt, but not antagonistic. The medical report says that he is in good health, mentally and physically. The investigator's report reveals that he was born in poverty, one of seven children; he quit school after fourth grade, rose from...
Monk was arrested along with Bud Powell when a packet of heroin was found in their possession. Monk had always been "clean," but he refused to let Powell take the rap alone. "Every day I would plead with him," Nellie says. " 'Thelonious, get yourself out of this trouble. You didn't do anything.' But he'd just say, 'Nellie, I have to walk the streets when I get out. I can't talk.'" Monk held his silence and was given 60 days in jail...