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Newsbrief:
Michigan
Nightclub
Rave
Raid
Nets
118,
Many
Charged
Only
with
Frequenting
a
"Drug
House"
3/25/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/380/clubraid.shtml
Dozens of Michigan police
raided the Flint nightspot Club What's Next late Saturday night, arresting
118 club goers. Of those arrests, only 17 were for felony drug charges,
the Flint Journal reported, while the rest were charged with misdemeanor
drug possession or "frequenting a drug house." No breakdown of the
numbers arrested on the latter charges was available.
Police said they raided the
club after undercover officers made multiple drug purchases on the premises
that evening. (Later reports clarified that the "multiple" drug purchases
were actually a total of three.) They said they seized GHB, ketamine,
Ecstasy, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms, along with marijuana, cocaine,
and "rave paraphernalia." They also seized some $3,500 in cash, according
to Flint Police Lt. Phil Smith. Some 60 police from the Flint Special
Operations Bureau, the Crime Area Target Team, the Flint Area Narcotics
Group, and the Genesee County Sheriff's Posse participated in the raid.
The mass arrests of innocent
club goers would appear to parallel the Racine,
Wisconsin, rave bust of November 2003. In that incident, Racine police
arrested more than 400 club goers, charged them with "inhabiting a disorderly
house" and sought whopping $968 fines. But in the face of outrage
from ravers and civil libertarians alike, the city ended up dropping
all charges a few weeks later in return for a pledge from the Wisconsin
ACLU not to sue.
No word yet on whether the
Flint 118 will similarly go on the offensive against overreaching law enforcement.
Stay tuned.
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Issue #380
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or
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Death
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Marijuana
User
|
Newsbrief:
Michigan
Nightclub
Rave
Raid
Nets
118,
Many
Charged
Only
with
Frequenting
a
"Drug
House"
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Challenges
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in
Case
That
Caused
Him
to
Flee
United
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Tulia,
Loretta
Nall,
Baker
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