OHIO HIGH SCHOOL DRUG KINGPIN ARRESTED IN MAJOR BUST. How should the authorities deal with this pot-peddling teenager?
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Cops first became aware of a high-grade hydroponic strain of marijuana being sold for $350 to $400 an ounce in the Mason school district near Cincinnati last year. An undercover agent began making buys at Mason High School, where the teenager was a student, and uncovered a dealing operation headed by the arrested student. According to the prosecutor's office, "The undercover officer had discovered six students or former students working for that individual and trafficking drugs in two school districts. The group supplied an overwhelming amount of marijuana in the Mason and King school districts."
The marijuana previously sold in the areas was a lower-grade variety smuggled into the U.S. through the border, but the weed they began seeing last year was a much more expensive product. The student helped lead cops to uncover a major grow operation, run by locals out of warehouses and other buildings in three nearby towns. Six other adult individuals have been arrested for their role in growing and distributing the drug. Authorities seized 600 plants from the three grow houses, with an estimated street value of $3 million.
HOW SHOULD THE AUTHORITIES DEAL WITH THIS POT-PEDDLING TEENAGER?
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Christy 2012/07/18 14:31:07He's just showing good old American capitalism and entrepreneurship.
+3Yeah, it's illegal and he'll have to be punished, but damn, I'm impressed with the kid's business sense! I'm glad that he's not being charged as an adult, and I hope that after all this, he uses the skills he's acquired to start a legal business, and I hope it's as successful and lucrative for him.
At this point in the kid's life, I have no idea if he can be rehabilitated but it seems a change to lose all potential good he was capable of accomplishing in life. Of course, he is quite wealthy and many would have us believe that the wealthy deserve all the credit themselves....if that is the case, he did the crime he should do the time.
While I am not sure what to do with this juvenile, I am certain about the adult participants, by which I mean anyone over 30, They should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and any leniency in the kid receives should be added to their sentences.
Without adequate punishment, he is unlikely to change his activities to legal endeavors .... with our prison and JV system it is just as likely, this will be his training to lead an organized crime family as become a beneficial member of society.