Group responsible for 90 percent of acid sold in West is busted [updated]

^^^^ Well the cops here need their snitch network, and you can't maintain a snitch network if all you have to offer a stool pigeon is a break off a 2-, 3-, or 5-year sentence.

The 20-30 year sentences for non-violent LSD offenses are a testament to LE's inability to catch an aardvark crawling out of a paper bag, let alone something that requires real sleuthing.

So imbeciles like Sanger grow their hair, put on a tye-dyed t-shirt, and learn words like "groovy" and "far out" in an attempt to "infiltrate" a "psychedelic distribution network."

Reading between the lines of the above article, they wind up at a "barter fair" where anyone with at least one remaining unincinerated brain cell will see them for the sniveling pigs that they are and avoid them like the swine flu.

But after enough attempts at throwing shit against the wall, one turd will stick in the form of a burnout who agrees to sell them a blotter, a mushroom, or a joint. When they drag him to the station house, they threaten him with 30 years in the slam, so in order to avoid that he gives up his sister's husband who is also his brother.

When they arrest that guy, they tear his house apart and find a computer with a few visits to the "Llama Tribe" website. At which point "Colombo" Sanger puts two and two together and calls up the Bonner County Bee to tell them that he has single-handedly dismantled a distribution network that "supplies 90% of the acid sold in the West." Because hey, who can disprove him, or rather who even wants to?

It's not like anyone will check his story to see if he's telling fibs so he can look like a hotshot, maybe get some chicks who would normally not give him the time of day because he's a small-time schmuck in a small-time town. But it's pretty clear from his comments that he doesn't know shit about where acid comes from or how it gets distributed, and he certainly hasn't caught anyone who can manage to smoke pot in the high school parking lot without getting popped, let alone distribute LSD to half the country.
 
Looks like some small town dumbass that got picked on in high school is trying to look cool.
“Yea, just busted a Nation Wide Distribution Ring” it was just like the movies.
 
it all comes from San Francisco and gets distributed throughout the US via the mail systems, this is minor...

"LSD has been manufactured illegally since the 1960’s. A limited number of chemists, probably less than a dozen, are believed to be manufacturing nearly all of the LSD available in the United States. Some of these manufacturers probably have been operating since the 1960’s.

LSD manufacturers and traffickers can be separated into two groups. The first, located in northern California, is composed of chemists (commonly referred to as “cooks”) and traffickers who work together in close association; typically, they are major producers capable of distributing LSD nationwide. The second group is made up of independent producers who, operating on a comparatively limited scale, can be found throughout the country. As a group, independent producers pose much less of a threat than the northern California group inasmuch as their production is intended for local consumption only.

Drug law enforcement officials have surmised that LSD chemists and top echelon traffickers form an insider’s fraternity of sorts. They successfully have remained at large because there are so few of them. Their exclusivity is not surprising given that LSD synthesis is a difficult process to master. Although cooks need not be formally trained chemists, they must adhere to precise and complex production procedures. In instances where the cook is not a chemist, the production recipe most likely was passed on by personal instruction from a formally trained chemist. Further supporting the premise that most LSD manufacture is the work of a small fraternity of chemists, virtually all the LSD seized during the 1980’s was of consistently high purity and sold in relatively uniform dosages of 20 to 80 micrograms."
 
Absolute bullshit, these guys were probably growing a couple of plants and some fungus and somehow they are supplying the entire country through fucking barter fairs out of spokane. anyone ever been to spokane? no real acid freak would live there if timothy leary blessed it himself.

I think the reporter means the west coast of the columbia river.
 
ya i find it hard to believe a couple of 26 year olds are supplying 90% of doses to america. rediculous
 
Well im glad i don't live in a country where you can get 20 fucking years for having acid. Those kind of sentences should only be handed out to murders, rapists and child molesters. These guys where not hurting anybody at all.

Ive had my fair share of pig shit thrown at me and i hate them for this exact reason. They hang charges on people that where doing no harm to anybody at all just so they can get their name in the paper and a pat on the back from their piggy friends.

No wonder their called swine and nobody has any respect for them.
 
I agree! Those swine are filthy.

The real problem lies with the people who make these laws. It seems that it is us citizens who are responsible. My advice is to vote. Not federally. Federal votes mean nothing. Vote for things that matter, such as congressman and senators. Vote for mayor. Better yet, run for mayor! Get to know the politics. Seriously. One thing that is wrong with this nation is that none of us vote. Not that it would make a difference.

The powers that be are there to stay, they have made sure of it.
This is no longer a democracy. It is a dictatorship/police state disguised as a democracy. We are as bad as Germany during the 30's.
 
Sound bulshit to me... But you Americans know law enforcements watch this board, so do not say anything that might actually help them find the people higher up in the game. Just putting it out there.
 
Looks like they've downgraded this "bust" and given it a new working title. It's gone from "getting the source of 90% of West Coast acid" to "reducing drug traffic in Boner County.":

Investigation ends in arrests

SANDPOINT -- Dozens of local drug users provided city police with information that led to a Thursday arrest that's expected to reduce drug trafficking in Bonner County.
Some of these local drug users, who reportedly ranged from 16 to 24 years, have already been arrested.

Others were confidential informants, Police chief Mark Lockwood said Tuesday.

Lockwood would not comment when asked about the confidential informants and their fates because the investigation continues.

"We spent a year (with this investigation)," he said. "There was a lot of linkage that was done there through criminal analysis."

The investigation involving Sandpoint police going undercover to help federal officials resulted in the arrest two leaders from this major drug trafficking ring known as Llama Tribe. Palmer Hanson, 26, and Allen Lint, 26, both of Yakima, Wash., were arrested in Spokane by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Sandpoint police gained trust of leaders who belong to the Llama Tribe, according to a news release. The group is believed to have supplied up to 90 percent of the acid in the western United States. The group also supplied this area with acid, mushrooms, ecstasy and marijuana.

Sandpoint narcotics detectives learned local drug users obtained these drugs from area barter fairs and brought the drugs to Sandpoint for resale or personal use.

A barter fair is a gathering of people who buy and sell things like jewelry, clothing and food on private property. It's also a market for drugs, which are openly sold and consumed.

These fairs are difficult to bust. Warrants are difficult to obtain because police need to identify who they are after. The property owner generally doesn't deal drugs, but is aware of the activity.

It's believed enough people from the area were going to these barter fairs not to buy drugs for just personal use, Lockwood said.

"These fairs are all part of the investigation," he said. "There's probably a lot of folks who've seen them and attended them."

"This is still an active (drug ring)," Lockwood continued. "We took some people off the top. We don't know where this will lead."

It's possible Hanson and Lint could be charged by Sandpoint police.

"We're going to leave that option on the table," Lockwood said. "It's a joint investigation. They're going through the federal system, but that doesn't exclude filing state charges in the future."
 
i seriously doubt they made a very noticeable dent in the LSD supply, especially on the west coast. 2 people don't run the show anymore, this industry is being operated on slightly smaller scales in an incredibly high amount of places by many, many individuals.

I dont think we'll be seeing much of a supply loss. Sucks about the bust, though!
 
I don't want anyone to post any "sensitive" information but how exactly are home LSD labs popping up? LSD production is pretty complicated, you need real lab equipment this isn't making GHB. And the precursors are obscure and watched like a hawk, you can't buy LSD precursors down at walgreens.
 
Bogus

I wish i could reveal more here, but I can't.

Let's just say they didn't even come close to catching the real culprits.
 
acid might be a little hard to come by......so people will just convert to mushrooms or some other psychedelic.......pointless bust..but im sure they are all padding each others backs...at most this is just an inconvenience to all hippies
 
Coolio said:
It didn't say they manufactured any LSD. It said they supplied it which is all they seem to have been arrested for doing, but their estimate of 90 percent of the acid supply on the West Coast is probably a completely baseless claim.
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That's the first thing that crossed my mind.

I read the headline and cringed, assuming they just busted a real mega lab, but then read the article and it mentions nothing about any labs beign taken down.

Good job cops/DEA, you've just busted the lab's retailers. Do you not grasp that the chemists will <gasp> JUST FIND NEW RETAILERS!!!

Hell, even if they busted the lab, another will pop up. It will always, always, always come back to supply and demand. Always. (did I say always?)
 
And whoever said the police should be going after crack/meth/heron/etc, get off your damned pedastal. What makes it cool for you to think you should be allowed access to the psychedelics, but that the narcotics you mentioned should be off limits?

God I just don't understand some people. Drugs are here to stay. Just legalize them already and focus on treatment for addicts, prohibition is not only easily proved useless by basic economic theory, but also by history.
 
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