Drug bust nets charges against 48

“The only way that we can remove drugs and drug-related violence from our city streets is for the community to come together and take a unified stand against this type of crime”

ALTOONA -- Charges were filed Friday against 48 suspected drug dealers with 26 -- including two from Port Matilda -- being arrested by agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation in Blair County.

Lanny and Eunice Prisk, both of 100 Cherry Lane, Port Matilda were arrested Friday along with two people from Tyrone.

Three others from Tyrone were charged but were among those still being sought by authorities Friday afternoon, according to the attorney general's office. Read more

[Sharon]

It's very sad to see the decline in our city. The town officials have let this happen by allowing drug rehabilitation facilities into our area, and now they want us to come together in a unified stand. I think it's very unfair of them to expect us to clean up their mistakes. It's time they do their jobs and clean up their own mess. We need to protect ourselves from all the problems they've created. I'm seriously considering moving to another town.

[Sharon]

It's very sad to see the decline in our city. The town officials have let this happen by allowing drug rehabilitation facilities into our area, and now they want us to come together in a unified stand. I think it's very unfair of them to expect us to clean up their mistakes. It's time they do their jobs and clean up their own mess. We need to protect ourselves from all the problems they've created. I'm seriously considering moving to another town.

[Keisha]

I hope that you'll prosecute them to the fullest. It's sad that half of these no good menn have children and make all this illegal money and don't take care of their children. I know one who is from Pittsburgh and he has several children that has been in this world without him cause the streets and his boys got him trapped. The fast life is the way he see's things and thats not fair to his children. He's a 33 year old man with no future and a drug life for a past. That is so sad. All this money he makes doing the wrong thing he can't even do something right by taking care of his kids.

[tammy helsel]

sosad people are tolazy to go out and work they are out selling drugs to are kids out committing crimes to buy there drugs the law needs to be harder on these people like take them to the swamps tie them to a tree let the alligators take care of them that way we wontbe wasting are tax dollars onthese people being injailthey wontgetout to doit allover again hurt more people

[Chad The Grooveman]

These are not bad people. They just come from a poor little crap town. The only bad people are the ones who are judging them. Making the law harder on these people is foolish. The war on drugs is the biggest waste of money that comes out of our taxes. You know why? Because it is not a war that can be won. WOW the DEA busted a few small time drug dealers, big deal. Tobacco and Alcohol are drugs that kill more than Coke, Crack, and Heroin combined each year. So why are the drug dealers any worse than your local beer distributer or tobacco store?

[Tammy]

Chad The Grooveman wrote:

These are not bad people. They just come from a poor little crap town. The only bad people are the ones who are judging them. Making the law harder on these people is foolish. The war on drugs is the biggest waste of money that comes out of our taxes. You know why? Because it is not a war that can be won. WOW the DEA busted a few small time drug dealers, big deal. Tobacco and Alcohol are drugs that kill more than Coke, Crack, and Heroin combined each year. So why are the drug dealers any worse than your local beer distributer or tobacco store?

Out law beer not hurting me any Im just tired of paying for these drug dealers.Put them in jail we pay leave them on the streets our children pay.

[Chad The Grooveman]

First off you will pay regardless, from the 20 billion dollars the government taxes America each year, for the wasteful war on drugs. It is a federal tax not a local tax. Second, If you are so concerned about your children, then why do you allow them to roam the drug filled streets? Do you let your kids play with guns too? Face the fact; Drugs are all over, you will never escape it. I saw more drugs aboard a Navy Carrier, than I did in a booming night in a college filled town. Raise them how you want, I can not care less, but they are no better than the junkies you are sick of paying for. Blame the U.S.A. for the tax, not the junkie.