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Portage drug task force is going strong 307 arrests made since restructuring 18 months ago; 39 arrests this year
By Marci Piltz
Record-Courier staff writer
Nearly 18 months ago, the Portage County Drug Task Force was restructured under the guidance of the Portage County Sheriff's Office after financial constraints led to many departments withdrawing from the group.
Since then, the task force has made 307 arrests, 39 so far this year, said Portage County Sheriff Duane Kaley.
Consisting of members from seven departments within the community "the sheriff's office, the Portage County Prosecutor's Office, and the Aurora, Garrettsville, Kent, Ravenna and Streetsboro police departments " the task force is continuing its mission of driving drugs out of Portage County, Kaley said.
"We work very closely with other local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to apprehend and prosecute individuals who are involved with illegal drugs," Kaley said. "It's a cooperative effort, because drugs don't discriminate, and they're transit "people run back and forth with them from out of the area, or take them out of here to somewhere else."
Kaley said the task force has been fortunate that some of the area's finest officers have been assigned to a job he describes as both risky and time-consuming.
"Not only are you dealing with some pretty questionable individuals, but they are also very unreliable," Kaley said. "The agents work long, strange hours. It's a whole different culture. It's not like sitting down with business people or people with a good work ethic. Sometimes you might be told they'll have something to sell to you, but might take four attempts before they really show up and have it."
Before agents charge suspects, Kaley said an average of three drug purchases are made. Hundreds of hours in surveillance are put into the cases, he said. And sometimes, in the end, nothing pans out for the agent.
"It's extremely hard work for the agents," he said. "Some cases might take a month, others can take up to a year or more. There is satisfaction in it, though. When the cases finally come together and go to court, you feel like you've accomplished something."
Although marijuana, powder cocaine and crack cocainemake up the bulk of the task force's cases, Kaley said methamphetamine and prescription drug abuse are problems.Manufactured from chemicals that can be extremely volatile, methamphetamine requires special training and gear to clean up.
"Meth users also can go for days without sleep, and very seldom do they cooperate with us. Usually they try to run," Kaley said. "Also, like most users of other drugs, they'll do anything to get money to get their next fix. Most of the burglaries we see are somehow related to drugs."
Kaley also said the prescription Oxycontin remains a problem, and said it seems the highly potent and highly addictive painkiller is becoming easier for people to get.
"Then, we'll find a local merchant or retailer has been ripped off, maybe TVs or DVD players, and the thiefs will take that merchandise and trade it for pills," Kaley said. "The store is getting ripped off, the guy who stole it is getting ripped off because he's not getting the full value of what he stole, and we as consumers are getting ripped off because those losses are figured into the cost of items."
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There is a definite pattern to your writing. Here is what I "glean" from your last few posts (rants).
1. You have a baby complex or really like kids alot. Probably not in a good way. You reference them way too much when you go on the attack.(really weird by the way)Also could be some deep seated hatred of children.
2. You sure always have something to say about drugs. hence the long winded posts in this article. My guess; you likey have had or have a drug issue. Even weirdly accusing me of taking Oxycotin.???? If you knew my background you would understand just how insane that statement really is.
I can easily debate you till the end of time. Winding your clock is so easy it is almost like beating up a retard. I have to be honest Rageman I really get a laugh out of watching you blow a tube over this crap. I got my friends and buddies at work watching this all the time now. It is awesome. We keep score and other than "freaking out" really good, you are way behind. Sorry...The guys/gals I work with are pretty objective.
We just can't wait for the response. It's all just priceless. Kind of like a MasterCard commercial.
I take it back, you are funny. In a demented, tragic, delusional, desperate kind of way but, ..weirdly funny.
Hee hee hee hee!! "ticks 'n tones 'ay b'ake ma bones, bu nam's eh neba hert me." Baby talk, baby talk, ...it's a wonder you can walk.
Whatsa motta Baby Queszy, did Mommie forget to put your Oxycontin in your "ba-ba"? Delusional bad dreams no fun, huh, no, nooo!!
Don't worry. You'll feel better after Mommie changes your nasty, stinky diaper. Haaaa, ha ha ha ha!!!
See how easy YOU were ....dude? Hee hee hee hee hee!! Now we're havin' fun!!!!
What will your next shocking revelation be???
One can only wait...Maybe you will call me more mean names again???? I am so hurt...
Ok, since I am 3, here is what I know for sure.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"!!! Or better yet, I am rubber you are glue, bounces off me, sticks to you...
Now that's humor man!!
You comment that no one is listening...
You are listening arent you???
It is driving you nuts!!! More than usual I might add. You have completely snapped with that last response. You have proven what I suspected.
You were easy dude!!
ANYBODY can blindly hurl crude, baseless, mean-spirited insults. No intelligence or talent required, just angry, desperate frustration. How infantile and boorish. And your futile attempt at humor ...about as funny as a train wreck. You really shouldn't even attempt humor. You simply have NO talent for it.
It's clear that all you can manage to do is to shriek like an angry little girl while smugly, but vigorously patting yourself on the back for accomplishing things you've clearly FAILED to accomplish, ...except in your own mind! You are clearly out of your depth here. But if you want to embarrass yourself in this childish way in front of everybody, I guess that's your prerogative. What a tiny, delusional unreality you must live in.
In fact, now that I think about it, I have NEVER heard you offer an intelligent opinion or a relevant comment to ANY article in this newspaper. All of your comments are never anything more than angry personal attacks or smug, empty criticisms! You never attack the substance of anything said in this forum. You've made no comment to the above article in this forum! Proves my point.
Like I said, "Humorless, lame of mind and spirit, ignorantly demeaning and childishly arrogant. Oh, and ...not at all funny. In fact, you're kinda ...scary, in a pathetic way." You've expressed NO intelligence so I guess we must reasonably conclude that it's because you possess none. So you are irrelevant! ...yet again.
WOW!!! Once more, you validate EACH and EVERY THING I've said about you. EVERYTHING!! Shazam!!! LOL!
"You may have actually snapped. I knew I could get to you, but am surprised I could gain that much control over you...."
HAAAAA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!! Only in your dreams, child!! You seem to enormously enjoy stroking your ego's delusions though, I'll give you that! There's a word for that. Master.. something. Whoa, you really ARE delusional! LOL!!!
You'll have to do much better than this crude, desperate, childish brand of "Yuk Yuk Yuk Yuk, ..Ah-Hyilk, Uh, duh, I'm not stupid! Duh, Yer the one that's stupid!" so-called humor to ever even slightly amuse me, let alone ruffle a single feather on me. You see, ignorant, crude, vile and disgusting is not funny! You really need to learn that.
FYI, I didn't "claim to be", creative, imaginative, humorous, intelligent as you assert here. What I said was, "Are you awestruck or jealous or envious of creative, imaginative, humorous, intelligent people...". That's OK. I realize that you lack sufficient intellect to be able to accurately interpret and comprehend what you lamely attempt to read. LOL!
You see questioneverything, it's obviously not you who has gotten to me. By your own words, it's clearly me who has gotten to you! The proof of that? Like I said before, "You feel really personally intimidated by me, don't you? It would seem so." ..still! And you always will (smirk, smirk, ha ha).
Smarmy, angry little 12 yr old girls shouldn't try to play with the "big kids". Hope your Mommie doesn't catch you playing on the computer. LOL!
questioneverything "and understandnothing", nobody's listening to you. Mostly because you have nothing to say worth listening to. Everybody gets that but you. How sad. And the real person you're referring to in your comment ...read carefully, is yourself.
P.S. Plagerized is spelled "Plagiarized" (and PLEASE, look up the proper definition!). As often as you yourself engage in this practice, you should at least spell (and apply) the word correctly! I would think that being in the Seventh Grade, you would have learned to spell by now.
I think this should be my last response to you. It just doesn't feel right to "pick on a child". LOL!
WOW!!!
You may have actually snapped. I knew I could get to you, but am surprised I could gain that much control over you....
Been through a couple of wives I see...They probably took a couple of beat downs after they didn't agree with you about something. Or found your humor and meaningless opinions arrogant and uninformed. I will send the buck to the battered women's shelter in the name of Rageman.
NOW THAT'S HUMOR!! Albeit at your expense rather than someone elses perpetrated by you this time.
Four things you are definately not as you claim:
creative
imaginative
humorous
intelligent
I guess you are a legend in your own mind. Here are the four things I see in your writing.
Plagerized - or unoriginal
Depressed - Takes it out on others
Demeaning - Deflects shortcomings onto others
Condescending - Based in a self absorbed "smarter than everone else" view of ones self.
Angry - at the world as you are completley powerless in it.
Long winded spoutings with nothing to do with the article.
Bunch of stoops..
Remember what I said before, "..if you are such a bland imaginationless humorless dolt", and it appears you are, then you wouldn't know humor if it walked up and formally introduced itself!
You don't like me? Fine! You're entitled to feel any way you want. But just listen to yourself!! You feel really personally intimidated by me, don't you? It would seem so.
Do you notice that you've contributed not even one comment or expressed one view on the topic of this article the rest of us have been discussing here.
Your ENTIRE comment is nothing but an unprovoked personal, bitter, sneering, condescending, snobbish, angry, attack, without any intelligent substance or constructive reason to complain outside of an outrageous, seemingly overwhelming, obsessive-compulsive, almost manic desire to do so.
Are you awestruck or jealous or envious of creative, imaginative, humorous, intelligent people or are you just a hateful, bitter person with a dried up humorless spirit searching for any random target of opportunity to fire at? I really feel sorry for you. You truly do have my deepest sympathies!
Your blogname fits you perfectly, but you should extend it to "questioneverything and understandnothing"! I would tell you to "dry up" but I think you've already accomplished that. In fact I find you to be all the things you accuse me of being. Humorless, lame of mind and spirit, demeaning and arrogant. Oh, and ...not at all funny. In fact, you're kinda ...scary.
It absolutely requires that one possess a "sense of humor" for one to be able to "sense" humor. You clearly don't. I feel sorry for you. Keep the buck, you need it more than I do. Buy a comic book with it.
You're not one of my ex-wives, are you? Opps! Humor, ..sorry.
Here's your word for the day;
WRY - adj. (as in "wry humor")
1. Dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony.
2. Being at variance with what is right, proper, or suitable; perverse.
Thesaurus
1.wry - humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit".
http://www.thefreedi....com/wry
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