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sckuzzle t1_ixuqyn9 wrote

Reply to comment by Buffyoh in Three arrested with 100 pounds of fentanyl in Mattapan apartment, DA says by FuriousAlbino

It's because they don't actually have 100 lbs of fentanyl. The police like to inflate the numbers so that they seem more impressive. They actually have 100 lbs of powder that has trace amounts of fentanyl in it, but it's common practice to just label the entire thing as the drug, ignoring purity.

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LinguiniAficionado t1_ixuw1zg wrote

According to mass state law, the entirety of any mixture containing a drug is counted as that drug, because they intend to sell the mixture. So yeah, you’re totally right to point out that it’s misleading, but it’s not the police trying to “sound impressive”, it’s just the legal definition of what the suspects were in possession of.

And really, less pure = more profit, because they have 100 lbs of something to sell regardless of what it contains, and a higher proportion of that being a cutting agent rather than pure fentanyl means they have higher profit margins, so it makes the $100k even less significant to them.

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sckuzzle t1_ixuxt36 wrote

> the entirety of any mixture containing a drug is counted as that drug

for sentencing purposes. Laws can't change the physical reality of the world. And the physical reality is that there weren't 100 lbs of fentanyl there, no matter what some law says about how long someone should be thrown in jail for. And the police are absolutely still lying (not misleading) about how much fent there is. It's both not the "legal definition" and not the truth.

>And really, less pure = more profit

lol.

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Explorer_of_Dreams t1_ixwmpgr wrote

Fuck off trying to defend drug dealers. They're willingly selling 100 lbs of product they know will possibly kill their buyers and they don't care

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sckuzzle t1_ixwz111 wrote

Nowhere did I defend drug dealers.

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Explorer_of_Dreams t1_ixwzvz5 wrote

The police gave an estimation of the value the drug dealers had - one pretty lower that the full weight given. Just because you can't do basic math doesn't mean you have to call the people trying to take these murderers off our streets liars

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sckuzzle t1_ixx278y wrote

Ahh. So you're just mad I'm criticizing the police. Got it.

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Fanfics t1_ixvl9cg wrote

I was gonna say, lol. "Holy shit are they planning to kill the entire US population?"

EDIT: Technically I guess it would be a chemical weapon though?

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Aromatic_Oven_3971 t1_ixuws75 wrote

They also had a pill press. So very possible they had pure fentanyl and cutting agents prepped and ready to press into pills

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sckuzzle t1_ixuyv5q wrote

If they had 100 lbs of pure fentanyl, the police would have reported that they seized drugs with a $1.3b street value. Yes, that's b, as in billion, as in $1,300,000,000.

They didn't seize 100 lbs of pure fentanyl.

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Intrepid-Hunter-5813 t1_ixv3sif wrote

I don’t know how many times I’ve had to explain this to people… glad somebody gets it.

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Maddcapp t1_ixuw0j2 wrote

Yup and the street value shit is a joke. Maybe if you broke up the amount into $5 bags and sold 200,000 of them. Which wouldn’t happen.

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Aromatic_Oven_3971 t1_ixuwnc6 wrote

How do you know? You can literally buy pure (relatively…95%+) fentanyl from the dark web

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jojenns t1_ixvd4l7 wrote

Can you provide the lab results or actual weight then please?

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Effective_Golf_3311 t1_ixuwe5x wrote

Are you suggesting they track down each granule?

Or is it safe to say that the weight given by police speaks better to the idea that they were trafficking rather than possessing, since the dealers will divide it up later as necessary to wholesale?

Nobody does pure fentanyl. It’s all cut. So it’s one thing to try to push a simple possession charge but when we’re talking this size the whole number tells the whole story.

These guys were gonna make a fuck load of money off of the death and misery off of people and the fact that you’re trying to minimize it is pretty disgusting.

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sckuzzle t1_ixuyc32 wrote

> Are you suggesting they track down each granule? Nobody does pure fentanyl. It’s all cut.

Of course they shouldn't track down the grains. I'm saying that at minimum they should have said that they found 100 lbs of powder that contained fentanyl. Saying it's 100 lbs of fentanyl simply is not factually accurate and also intentionally misrepresenting what was seized.

>and the fact that you’re trying to minimize it is pretty disgusting.

Mmmm, yes, that's what I'm doing. Calling out lies means that I must be pro-murder, right? Cool. Got it.

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