Katrina Hero Arrested on Heroin Charges

Katrina Hero Arrested on Heroin Charges
Saturday, November 26, 2005

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NEW ORLEANS — An Algiers man hailed by some as a hero for commandeering a school bus the day after Hurricane Katrina to take 60 stranded residents to safety in Houston has been arrested on drug charges where his bus journey began: the Fischer public housing complex.

Jabar Gibson, 20, who garnered a movie deal and national attention as the renegade bus driver, was booked Friday with possession with intent to distribute heroin after police stopped his rental car for allegedly driving erratically, New Orleans police said.

Gibson and another man, Gary Burnett, were traveling near the public housing complex about 12:30 p.m. when they veered slightly and nearly struck the police cruiser of officers Michael Pierce and Cory McKain, Pierce said.

The officers pursued the men's car. the suspects stopped it and ran toward the apartment complex, tossing what police said were drugs on the ground. They were quickly caught.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176771,00.html

I know it's from Faux. Lots of negative NO stories there.

when they reported this story.

stop.

but the kid does have a criminal history.

and he did the right thing in New Orleans.

I don't think it diminishes what he did for those people.

I think the cops that left with their tails between their legs are certainly leaping on any opportunity they can find, or create, to do so.

Obviously his heart is in the right place even if his head doesn't always follow suit.

This kid should get some slack cut to him for his past deeds and receive a commuted sentence for the heroin dealing IMO

So what. It doesn't change the fact that he helped people when others would not.

First, about 70% of heroin users work full time. Second, most heroin users reach a steady dose and keep using to maintain, not get high. Third, in a pilot program in the UK, hard core heroin users who were registered and supplied with a steady quantity of the drug gave the country an 80% reduction in street crime where the project was tried; 50% of those hardcore heroin users were clean 10 years later, when the program had ended, without formal treatment.

I've known a lot of heroin addicts because I've lived in those kinds of neighborhoods. Most of them were people I could trust with my life, although I couldn't trust them with a key to my apartment or five dollars. They are not subhumans. They were ordinary people. Most of the problems surrounding them came from the illegality of the drug and the necessity of paying black market prices for it

All this story shows is a young man who did what needed to be done at the time. The fact that he has a drug problem is irrelevant to that.

The drug war is wrong. We need to end it, allow people to treat their own inner pain, whatever it is, and offer treatment for those who think they've run into trouble.

Could not have said it any better; thanks.

it's true

you don't kick drugs that easy

It hasn't stopped since Bush Declared Mission Accomplished down there....groan!

Tell ya what guys....send all these icky faux newsies to:

countdown@msnbc.com

Priceless :)

what is the real situation? He had tracks?

That's none of my business.

That's why I posted the story.

Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

Sorry I didn't make clear was responding to story, not you, proud2Blib.

My bad writing, not yours at all.

Peace

:hi:

people. That's a no/no in Bush's America. That's why Faux is trashing him ~

Has anyone been arrested for the criminally negligent homocide in NO yet?

I don't care if this kid does a little heroin. He saved lives. Dick Cheney, George Bush (did he mention the victims of Katrina at all during his Thanksgiving address, btw? I wouldn't know since I can't bear to either listen to or watch him.) Condi Rice, Brownie, Chertoff et al, allowed American citizens to die, while the whole world watched, and this kid saves as many lives as he can, and HE'S the one who gets arrested?? What stupidity. Figures the brownshirts over at Fox would cheer for this ~

Possession of an amount in excess of a certain weight is considered prima facie evidence of "intent to distribute" in some jurisdictions, also. Not sure if LA is one of them (but I DO know that conviction on a heroin distribution charge carries life with no parole in Louisiana).

Does that even exist anymore?