Microgram Bulletin UPDATED

[phr]

The July and August editions of the Microgram are up.

Two interesting submissions:

HEROIN CONCEALED IN MOTORCYCLE HELMETS IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK

The DEA Northeast Laboratory (New York, New York) recently received two motorcycle helmets, each containing a concealed plastic bag of beige-colored powder, suspected heroin (see Photo 9). The exhibits were seized in New York City by agents from the DEA New York Field Division (no further details). The bags were secreted between the shell and the liner. Analysis of the powders (total net mass 703 grams) by GC/FID, GC/MS, and FTIR/ATR confirmed 62 percent heroin hydrochloride, adulterated with thiamine (not quantitated). The Northeast Laboratory routinely receives heroin concealed in various types of containers and packaging, but this is believed to be the first submission where heroin was smuggled in motorcycle helmets.

Ah, good ol' vitB cut dope.

HEROIN SMUGGLED IN SANDALS IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

The DEA North Central Laboratory (Chicago, Illinois) recently received one single and one intact pair of women’s sandals, each containing a rectangular package of hard brown material hidden in their heels, suspected heroin (see Photo 5). The exhibits were seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel at an express mail hub in Memphis, Tennessee, and were en route from Mexico to Illinois. The sandals displayed no signs of tampering; the packets were wrapped in clear plastic and black carbon paper. Analysis of the brown material (total net mass 528.1 grams) by GC/FID, GC/MS, FTIR, and color tests confirmed 55 percent heroin hydrochloride, along with acetylcodeine, acetylmorphine, and papaverine (minor alkaloids not quantitated). This is believed to be the first submission of heroin smuggled in sandals to the North Central Laboratory.

 

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Oh come on, I know some of you are interested in this.

 

[CloudyHazeD]

I always wonder how exactly some of the items come under scrutiny in the first place.

 

['medicine cabinet']

damn phro, beat me to it again! i was siked to get on the web siute and see they had 2 months up. i wonder if the helmet concealment method is popular...i can see a bunch of bikers riding the shit up from miami in their helmets. would be a good way to smuggle shit....

the liquid oxycontin exhibit was pretty funny....havnt they ever seen oxyfast before lol? looks like there are some good E's coming in. most of them had other actives in them, but some were 70-90 MG's MDMA....alsong with k meth and caffeine haha...

yea its interesting on how the DEA and LE come across some of this stuff...like the shoes with heroin in them. i guess they have been on the look out from ppl coming from south america wearing shoes lol

 

[phr]

I always wonder how exactly some of the items come under scrutiny in the first place.

They, typically novel items, get submitted by various LE agencies. They certainly do not represent the majority of items seized.


As far as how do specific LE agencies discover the ingenious items and smuggling methods, I'm not sure. It'd be safe to assume that the majority are discovered by dumb luck, and by people snitching.

 

[In the Eyes of God]

they had to have some kind of inside info in the first place....or they just got lucky...im not a betting man, but if i had to, id say they got lucky lol

Uhhh... its called a drug dog... jeesus christ.

 

[In the Eyes of God]

Phrozen: On purity... Colombian is very rarely over 85% pure at POM, and is often 70 or less. they just have not mastered the process as well as being the only POM in the world that purposely adulterates their product.

LOL are you kidding???

Do you know anything about heroin production? Its because going above a certain purity level, requires a TON of EXTRA work and EXTRA costs for chemicals, only to acheive a product slightly more pure. They have a cutoff point you know, when they go "look, the extra 5% purity isnt worth the extra $100 in chemicals and the extra hours of work".

 

[giantsquid]

It makes you wonder how the hell they find something like that.

Well its at the perfect level for the sniffer dogs so its a kind of a stupid way to smuggle something

 

['medicine cabinet']

LOL are you kidding???

Do you know anything about heroin production? Its because going above a certain purity level, requires a TON of EXTRA work and EXTRA costs for chemicals, only to acheive a product slightly more pure. They have a cutoff point you know, when they go "look, the extra 5% purity isnt worth the extra $100 in chemicals and the extra hours of work".

lol are YOU kidding? you dont know shit about dope you fag, im sure you never have even seen real heroin before. isnt that right art richardson? lol...freal, why even post here anymore, everyone knows your a sham...ah well, some ppl must be that starved for attention they will say anything to get some.


the new september and october micrograms are up on the dea site. there are a few interesting submissions. one of note was a bunch of compressed cylinders of dope in arkanas. they look exactly like the way my old dealer used to get them. he was a mid level dealer and would get 2-3 ounces a week. and the times i did get to see his reup, it was a bunch of those little cylinders or the longer 10 gram fingers that look like side walk chalk.

also there were supposed X mimics that contained coke dope and caffieine....weird thingis tho the dope was like 2%....makes you wonder what the purpose of those would be....

 

[phr]

Sweet fancy Moses!

October, wtf? I bet the agents that write this are dippin' in on the speed again. :D

Yeah the Arkansas dope was weird. It was in an unusual area, packaged unusually, and it was ~88%. I guess the red-neck hillbillies are serious about their dope.

 

['medicine cabinet']

lol, i know right..i was surpised to see oct out this early, didnt think id see it till 08

88% is pretty high for a place like arkansas, unless it was still enroute...i bet that was some blaze dope too. that light tan compressed hard shit is usually the best. nothing like getting a gram and its one big rock hard chunk.

 

[hfrs]

also there were supposed X mimics that contained coke dope and caffieine....weird thingis tho the dope was like 2%....makes you wonder what the purpose of those would be....

I thought that was pretty odd too. Wonder if it could be as simple as not cleaning out their glassware? You'd have to be pretty damn sloppy to leave that much behind though. Could be coming from some kind of packaging machine also, also pretty sloppy if that's the reason.

Isn't it just strange in general to have an x maker even in possession of dope? I just have always had the impression that the x people are pretty strictly x-interested. Who knows, lots of weird stuff in there though!

Also, what was the point of the mustard in the dope cucumbers? Did they think that was going to throw off a dog or something?

I'm always amazed at how many are traffic stops. You can bet if I had a mg of anything illegal, I would be driving perfectly or I wouldn't be in a car at all! Seems like a stupid way to be caught. Unless they're seeing a cop, getting nervous, then making a mistake - that I guess would make more sense.

 

[phr]

AFAIK, a lot of the ecstacy is made in Canada and Europe(maybe Israel too?).

I wonder where those came from? Considering the access to coke and heroin, I'd guess that they're either domestic or Mexican. But who really knows?

 

['medicine cabinet']

^it seems like they came from somewhere in latin america....a while back they had a submission ofcoke and dope mix tablets but they were in a high concentration, like 70/30 i think dope to coke respectively. they were concealed in a soy lecitin bottle or something...

a lot of ppl use mustard on the bricks for some reason, i wouldnt think it would throw a drug dog off, but who knows, maybe it reduces the smell? i dunno, ive had dope before that has tasted like onions or garlic or something, like it had been smuggled in something smelly. isnt it gross to think that the shot u just did might have been in some mules stomach at some point lol?

 

[my innerself]

I love reading the new microgram reports when they come out but god damn I have to admit that it breaks my heart when I see some of the stuff they come across and presumebly destroy e.g. the 11kgs of 99.8% pure ice bricks

 

[fizzacyst]

Sweet fancy Moses!

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Yeah the Arkansas dope was weird. It was in an unusual area, packaged unusually, and it was ~88%. I guess the red-neck hillbillies are serious about their dope.

This is pretty consistent with what I've seen & heard of in the past. They were likely just transporting it/going to transport it down I-40 to Little Rock or up to the Northwest around Ft. Smith.

 

[phr]

^
So powdered dope is common in Little Rock(and that area)?


As for the NW, tar is by far the most common heroin there.

 

[fizzacyst]

No, actually heroin in general is really, really uncommon in the state. What is around is usually very high quality powder though, and oddly enough I have never seen black tar sold as heroin (which you'd think would be more prevalent being next to TX & fairly close to mexico). I have seen it cut and sold as opium.

It can be found in Little Rock but is much harder to score than in a true big city area. Mostly crack dealers if you walk around the shady areas. A major interstate (as far as trucking and general transport of goods goes) runs through the area though, so they could have been taking it eat or west from there.

By northwest, I meant northwest AR, not out by Washington. I have never seen tar sold as tar in NW AR. There is the fake opium-heroin concoction once in a blue moon.

I don't go out actively seeking that sort of stuff "from the street" though, too sketchy for me. So I'm not 100% clued in to how much actually moves around.

I would not rule out some guy growing a shitload of poppies and making it locally either though. Lots of poppies around.

 

[donkeyPUNCH]

son of a bitch now all the r-tards out there who say E pills are made of dope and coke are right!

 

[phr]

Interesting.

Yeah, by NW I thought you meant Washington and Oregon.