I just got back from spending in night in county for some bullshit. No new charges or anything, just some straight bullshit. Part my fault, part not.. but I digress.
When I was in intake processing, there was a young Spanish dude from New Jersey but lived up in the Poconos, PA and was transferred to the county I was at to deal with a bullshit thing in the county before being going upstate. Apparently he got caught with 50 bricks of dope, 300 grams of coke and a killed someone (homicide). Didn't go too much into that, but he seemed really fucking cool dude. He was all tatted up, maybe in a gang, I don't know. But we shot the shit for a little bit about drugs and he told me very fucking interesting shit. He was asking me how much I pay for bags/bundles, etc around here and I told they jack the price up at least 1.5x-2x+ than New Jersey street prices. He told me he used to bag his own dope and pretty much walked me through his process. He was telling me bags up in the Poconos go for 4x NJ bags, but he cut very good deals on his customers. He seemed EXTREMELY professional and SMART. For a young Spanish guy (20's-late 20's). He used to tell me how he'd buy 40-50 grams of heroin and throw 7 grams of cut or whatever he felt was necessary. And I'm like well, what kind of cuts do you use? Lactose? Mannitol? And he's like "Nah, man.. I never USE any cut that weakens the product" He used oxycodone, fentanyl (basically told me how he cooked it up in the oven and scraped it into the cut) and morphine. Not crushed up morphine, but morphine HCL powder from Afghanistan. I asked how HOW THE FUCK do you get that? And he told me in New York City, a lot of the bodega owners who from the middle east deal with opium and morphine powder. The morphine HCL powder before it gets converted into heroin. 30 grams for the price of like a fucking cheap iPod. So that really blew my mind. I thought a lot of dudes were using shit to weaken it, which they do. But he said he was making tons of money selling because his dope was just so good because although he cut it to stretch profit, he never weakened it. He was selling me people would pay insane amounts of money for bundles just because it was that good. We went into coke too. He sounded like the best dealer I ever never knew. Such a nice guy, seemed extremely professional and actually cared about his product and reputation. I wish he wasn't locked up for the 17 years they are giving him.