{"id":1968,"date":"2009-08-27T00:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T07:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/comic-books-for-tweakers-and-vaginal-cavities-too\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T17:46:08","slug":"comic-books-for-tweakers-and-vaginal-cavities-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/27\/comic-books-for-tweakers-and-vaginal-cavities-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Books For Tweakers (and Vaginal Cavities, too!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/08\/25\/meth.ring.arrests\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">from CNN.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Meth ring used comic books to launder cash, authorities say<\/h1>\n<p><strong>DENVER, Colorado (CNN)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Investigators in Colorado say they have broken up a massive methamphetamine ring in the Denver area that distributed pounds of the dangerous drug every week and laundered the profits using collectible comic books.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/2009\/CRIME\/08\/25\/meth.ring.arrests\/art.alfonzo.mug.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"234\" height=\"175\" align=\"left\" \/>&#8220;To launder the money you have to use something that is quick and convenient,&#8221; Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said at a news conference Monday. &#8220;And in this case, they used classic comic books.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While arresting the alleged ringleaders, brothers Aaron and Alfonzo Castro, law enforcement officers seized about 100 boxes of first-edition collectible comic books. Investigators say one title alone is worth $3,500 and the total collection of comics is worth half a million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appeared they were working on a startup company for high-end comic books,&#8221; said Don Quick, the district attorney in Adams County near Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Quick said the seized comic books included some first-edition Superman and Batman titles. They fragile, vintage comics were stored in plastic bags to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>According to a grand jury indictment released Monday, the Castro brothers arranged for weekly, multiple-pound shipments of the meth from Phoenix, Arizona. The brothers then distributed the drugs to a network of runners that made deliveries to dealers around the Denver area.<\/p>\n<p>Suthers says Castro brothers sometimes used females &#8220;as drug mules by having them hide methamphetamine inside their vaginal cavities.&#8221; These women would then deliver the meth to a series of houses, and then lower-level dealers would distribute the drug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tawdry piece of information, but it&#8217;s a big part of what this group was doing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/08\/25\/meth.ring.arrests\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at CNN.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN.com Meth ring used comic books to launder cash, authorities say DENVER, Colorado (CNN)\u00a0&#8212; Investigators in Colorado say they have broken up a massive methamphetamine ring in the Denver area that distributed pounds of the dangerous drug every week and laundered the profits using collectible comic books. &#8220;To launder the money you have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}