Drug dealer faces 30 years
Edward Antaion Baker faces 30 years on a drug conviction after being arrested last February “near a convenience store at Fairmount Avenue and Mosby Street”:
The defendant, Edward Antaion Baker, 28, was arrested Feb. 25 near a convenience store at Fairmount Avenue and Mosby Street in the city’s East End. In testimony yesterday, a police officer described the parking lot area as the worst open-air drug market in the First Precinct, Baskervill said. It’s across the street from Martin Luther King Middle School.
so does he get extra time for being inside a school zone??
I just hope he gets the maximum… hopefully it will be an example to those who want to/already have taken his place!
Our jails are already full of those convicted on drug possession/intent to sell charges. Could we get a little rehab going instead of wasting taxpayers money for the next 30 years?
GOOD! Now come on 35th street and get the rest of them! PLEASE!!!
Meanwhile, 24th and M Street is vying for second place in the “Worst Open-Air Drug Market” competition.
It Kills me when people speak on things that they do not know. Do you see the drug deals go down? Does this area have all day and all night business? What are you doing to support people in the nighborhood? What do you call an Open Air Drug Market? Are you buying? Are you using drugs? We waste all this energy on complaining on things we cannot control or change. Did you ever once think one day the drug addicts will not have a job to buy drugs! These are the people who are losing their jobs and contributing to someone elses pockets than their own. Dang the ways things are going with the stimulus money, layoffs, no jobs, no money or even this healthcare reform, I will be riding in one of these neighborhood and buy me something!
It kills ME when people speak on things that they don’t know!!! I have seen more deals than I can count. People will walk up, bike up, and drive up to score. The timid ones will actually have the dealer get in the car and take them down to the end of the block to deal. I’m not saying that every single person on the corner is a dealer but many of them are.
Professional:
M street is one of the worst. I have been approached by people that thought I wanted to buy drugs. You don’t need to be a user to be able to see what is going on there.
Also, many drug addicts do not have a job. They steal or forge checks or get money from friends or relatives. Or deal drugs to pay for their habit. I know, because I was very close to an addict and this is how it went for them. In fact, the job was the first thing to go.
You seem very naive.
Thank you for quoting me! Start Snitchin’ it sounds like you live in a dangerous neighborhood if you can witness all that activity and nothing is being done. I can suggest that you is to be active in your community, do something about it or you need to relocate. Who is on the corner? You stated that every single person is not a dealer on this corner. What type of hoodlums hang in your neighborhood? Where is this street located or what part of town?
Chris Dovi at Style has some details to add to this:
The problem isn’t the drugs themselves but a society whose minimum wage is so low a person can’t live off it that drives them to the quick fix option.
When are we going to start addressing the actual problem instead of the symptoms?
RE: #10 – How about a pop culture that supports the idea of thuggin? While that record exec cashes his check, folks that have never taken, or been given, the opportunity to see a better way take it all too literally.
Fighting over what part of town a person lives in? Seriously? And singing about killing over it? Might have a good beat, and I could really rollerskate to it, but the trash talking is pretty silly to anyone who has seen a bit more of the world than his own corner.
Deal with the schools, where kids can get inspired, where there are books to fire imagination. Make it safe for kids there, and maybe they won’t be able to help but get some good hope going. With that kind of steam, the minimum wage becomes irrelevant to them.
Bet Baker is glad that dog is not trained to chomp on the drugs when it finds them, instead of just sniffing.
RE: #11 – Exactly!
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