Couple Arrested After Rescuing Drug House

proud2BlibKansan

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Wed Nov-04-09 07:20 AM
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Couple Arrested After Rescuing Drug House

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Despite the crime and boarded-up buildings across the street, he thought it would be a perfect place to work on his math research. Logsdon, who has the “Keyhole Gallery” at 1903 Wyandotte in the Crossroads District, thought the home’s large windows created an ideal art studio.

But after buying the home, police approached the couple one day in the front yard, and told them they would have to leave or be arrested for trespassing. The reason? There had been a drug bust at the home several years earlier.

“They just showed up, assumed we were drug dealers because we live at the house, and told us we couldn’t live there,” said Helkenberg.

The bust had landed the home on a Drug Abatement Response Team (DART) list. The program is intended to keep arrested dealers from posting bond and immediately moving back into drug homes, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar.

Before they bought it in 2008, a codes inspector had declared the couple’s home uninhabitable. County leaders say a new inspection could have quickly fixed the problem.

more . . . http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Couple-Arrested-After-Rescuing-Drug-House/-d-ohIoPZUC3l8x2Xfo4qA.cspx

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ixion

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Wed Nov-04-09 08:16 AM
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1. what a load of crap... end the so-called 'war' on drugs and

send the DART fascists packing.

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Wed Nov-04-09 06:45 PM
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6. AMEN

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Wed Nov-04-09 08:34 AM
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2. The photo with the tag on a home that says "COMBAT ZONE" made me ill

Then i read the whole article, and got even more ill. Especially the last two paragraphs.

Kanatzar said the story is an anomaly in what has been an effective anti-drug approach in neighborhoods. The prosecutor said the hope of the program is to get law-abiding citizens to move into former drug homes and rehabilitate them.

“The system functioned the way it should have,” he said. “It may not have functioned exactly the way this couple wanted it to, but it does function and does function regularly.”

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proud2BlibKansan

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Wed Nov-04-09 11:45 AM
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5. And the tax to continue the program was approved yesterday

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Wed Nov-04-09 09:43 AM
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3. If I were that couple I would get the history on the house and see if meth was cooked there.

meth houses are bad news.

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proud2BlibKansan

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Wed Nov-04-09 11:42 AM
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4. I believe they did that

We have a mutual friend and according to her, they did that as soon as they found out the history of the house.

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