Meth problem makes comeback in Pekin area

It's not just the legislator that is going to fix the problem, it is the officer or detective working the cases that will. Operation Rattlesnake may be the answer to a growing methamphetamine problem in Pekin. via LincolnCourier.com

[JOE TOE]

IF THE LAW INFORCEMENT WAS ALLOWED TO GO AFTER THE CRIMINALS INSTEAD OF THE AVERAGE CITIZEN AND STOP WORRING ABOUT COST EFFECTIVENESS <NO PROFIT> IN GOING AFTER THE REAL CRIMINALS THEN WE WOULD SEE A LARGE REDUCTION IN THE DRUG PROBLEM FACING OUT STATE AN COUNTRY ...

[gfarris61]

YEAH sure Joe Toe, I want you to know that my brother was sentenced to just shy of 22 years to a non violent, low-level, FIRST TIME OFFENCE. I cant agree more with ending the problem. But guess what? The guys involved with him walked free because they told. fREE AS BIRDS!! And further more I just read in the paper about one of them AGAIN last night. Same charge as Jimmy but he got a few days in county and probation!! Yeah operation rattlesnake STINKS Im shaking now I am so angry at you you are an idiot

[gfarris61]

Im sorry Joe Toe, I shouldnt call you an idiot. Some people are just badly uninformed. And maybe I read your post wrong. Opperation Rattlesnake is closed now so anyone who wants to make meth can go on about thier business with out worry. They are done.

[bluepanther]

JOE TOE wrote:

IF THE LAW INFORCEMENT WAS ALLOWED TO GO AFTER THE CRIMINALS INSTEAD OF THE AVERAGE CITIZEN AND STOP WORRING ABOUT COST EFFECTIVENESS <NO PROFIT> IN GOING AFTER THE REAL CRIMINALS THEN WE WOULD SEE A LARGE REDUCTION IN THE DRUG PROBLEM FACING OUT STATE AN COUNTRY ...

Maybe if the neighbors took over their own neighborhood...sorry, a vigilante response may not be the best idea, but you can bet the people living in these areas would have more control over the garbage in their own back yard. Just make sure no children or animals are present, storm the place and take the scum bags into the police themselves.

Sounds militant, definitely illegal, but it seems the ones who SHOULD be in jail don't go. Bet ya if they knew some blue collar dad could be knocking on the door with his kid's Louisville slugger at any time they might think twice about doing what they do.

[Refuse to live in fear]

bluepanther wrote:

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Maybe if the neighbors took over their own neighborhood...sorry, a vigilante response may not be the best idea, but you can bet the people living in these areas would have more control over the garbage in their own back yard. Just make sure no children or animals are present, storm the place and take the scum bags into the police themselves.
Sounds militant, definitely illegal, but it seems the ones who SHOULD be in jail don't go. Bet ya if they knew some blue collar dad could be knocking on the door with his kid's Louisville slugger at any time they might think twice about doing what they do.

Yep, I agree. But until we all get out of our shelled lives and look around outside to see what's going on, things will not change.
The neighborhoods the drug makers use are usually the same neighborhoods where the drug users live, no problem seen from their point of view.
That's sad!!

[Chink]

oh pekin you guys are special ed don't disagree or i will be forced to enact opperation rattlesnake you you pekiners. This is for the first offence

[Average citizen]

Meth is in everybody's back yard. It has no socioeconomic boundaries. It is more addictive and just as hard if not harder to stop using it. It's made from toxic substances and produces toxic people who create toxic problems, ie. destroys lives both the users and the families lives, creates increase in crime, drug related robberies and psychosis, which has led to homicide in some cases.

Make it a state law to stop selling pseudoephedrine in large quantities. Put it behind pharmacy counter and the customer has to sign with limited quantities. Watch the purchases of the other supplies used to make it. The stores should be educated on this.

First, educate the young kids because they're all vulnerable. The best thing is to stop before it's ever started. It's a downward spiral on the road to perdition.

[jamie_anywho]

First of all it starts at home. If people can't be parents to their kids and teach them, watch them,care for them, and keep them off of the streets, then they shouldn't have them. Secondly, there are parents that are the ones making the Meth with babies in the home! Sudafed and such ARE kept behind counters now, but a good thief will always find a way, and so will a drug addict. Solution...get the family values back and teach your kids right from wrong, including yourselves if you are the one doing the drugs and the children are learning frm you. Teach them respect. It isn't a given...it's earned. Drugs are all over our country, and children die daily from them. Why? Because adults are greedy, want fast cash, and could care less about who they kill to get it. As for Pekin.....Sapp St., Cooper St., Herget St.,.....that's a good start. We all know where they are, the city just isn't going after them. Period.

[bill]

bluepanther wrote:

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Sounds militant, definitely illegal, but it seems the ones who SHOULD be in jail don't go. Bet ya if they knew some blue collar dad could be knocking on the door with his kid's Louisville slugger at any time they might think twice about doing what they do.

Yeah, drug dealers don't have guns or anything.

[Viper61554]

Pkin is full of drug addicts,and if you werent one before you moved there you will be one soon. This place is a drug haven ,always has been always will be.Methamphetamine ,Heroin, crack,its all there.I seen a woman at the police station who had been beaten in the face and head with a hammer and frying pan ,and kicked and punched with her head shaven she watched someone with a meth lab charge get faced with 6 to 30 years behind bars and a 200,000.thousand dollar bond who got high and did not hurt anyone watch this guy who beat her get and attempted to murder her get a 2,500 doller bond an a slap on the wrist. This woman was not happy. You can murder a person and get out in 3 to 10 years ,but get high on meth and you face life in prison with fines in the millons of dollars . Meth does need to be addressed fought hard and to the point but prison is not the solution ,rehab for drug addiction is what they need confined for at least 2 years in rehab.

[wow]

I'v done meth for years with some of the most influential Pekinites. Moderation is the key. You can be an in the gutter wino or a social drinker . Same with meth. I did it with a few of the people who worked on the western movie shot here a couple years ago. Yah, those hours on the set can turn into 16 hours easily. There was a time you could just go to one of the bars and pick it up. Now their passing coke off as meth. You have to go all the way down to Creve Coure or East Peoria river front area to by something decent. It's a shame a few amteurs turned junkies spoiled it for us.

[What]

wow wrote:

I'v done meth for years with some of the most influential Pekinites. Moderation is the key. You can be an in the gutter wino or a social drinker . Same with meth. I did it with a few of the people who worked on the western movie shot here a couple years ago. Yah, those hours on the set can turn into 16 hours easily. There was a time you could just go to one of the bars and pick it up. Now their passing coke off as meth. You have to go all the way down to Creve Coure or East Peoria river front area to by something decent. It's a shame a few amteurs turned junkies spoiled it for us.

"influential Pekinites"

LMFAO! Isnt that an oxymoron? If they were anything they wouldnt be shoving drain cleaner, lithium,ether, and all of that other toxic shit up their noses. Just because they filmed some low budget movie in pekin doesnt make them influential in the norms eyes. It takes more than an independant film and some crank to be influential to most people. You keep on thinking you can do it socially and you will eventually find out your a very social person.

[wouldnt you like to know]

yeah that's hilarious. Hopefully you and your "social" dopeheads get run outta town. Or tossed on the prison shower floor lookin up at nasty nate.
the drug is really stupid. Hey lets stay up all night and do something??Like what??ummm, theres nothing to do lets Smoke more meth!!!Wow...sounds like a great time.