Okay, this one got my blood boiling:
A Texas man with a prior murder conviction is accused of running a “full-service drug operation” near several schools where authorities say surveillance showed what appeared to be teenagers purchasing narcotics and fentanyl pills disguised to look like ecstasy.
A convicted murderer was out free on the streets? IN TEXAS? How the fuck did that come about? Why hadn’t he been executed, or at least still be behind bars for the rest of his worthless fucking life?
Also relevant: whose signature is on the petition for release, and whose signature is on the release authorization? (Yeah, we’ll probably never know that, because if we did, it could easily come about that the signatories would be dragged out of their house and beaten with iron bars and chains. In any just society, that is.)
Read the whole thing to get the full horror of it.
Range time.
The article says he’d served 25 years on the murder charge, so it’s not unreasonable to think he served the full sentence. It seems likely that it would’ve been mentioned if he was out on parole or good behavior or whatever.
Also, it says he was a juvenile convicted “in connection with a murder case”, so probably not the triggerman. OTOH, it says he was “sentenced to 25 years” in 1993, but by 2012 was out – convicted again that year on drug charges and sentenced to 2 years.
And it may have been a “felony murder” case where one of the perps was killed.
For some reason I found this part amusing.
“This is a full-service drug operation, including the ability to pay with credit card,” Galveston Police Chief Doug Balli said. “This is a convenience store for poison that was taken down.”
Buying illegal drugs with a credit card? I gotta wonder what merchant category code he used for those transactions.
Fast food? 🙂
Pharmacy
OTC meds
Compounding Pharmacy, off roster use?
The drugs he sold were not pre-approved by the FDA for the purpose the buyer intended to use them for.