wordspeak2 wrote:Could be both- true and a smear campaign.
I was pretty angry, DYEW, about that post, b/c I don't know that extending my sympathy to a combat vet with a heroin problem victimized by the insanity of the war on drugs really merits me being called a dupe of the powers that be. I was, of course, projecting.
There's more details now. I'm not anywhere near so certain that he's a user, because it sounds like the present scenario has them as small-time dealers--they had a lot of bags. Sounds like Marte was holding, so Rowe only gets a sale charge. Oneonta is pretty far upstate for a kid from the Bronx.
They were both charged with 3d-degree sale, which is for any amount of a controlled substance. If I read the law correctly--as always, I am not a lawyer--because 2d-degree sale in NY state is between half an ounce and two ounces, they had less than half an oz. (14 g) of H in total, split into 34 bags.
That's still a lot of bags, which means small-time distro. IDK anything about what the current price of junk is on the street, but if I'm right that the upper limit of this is 14 g, assuming around $90/g (which is prob. high), they're accused of having less than $1500 retail on them as an upper limit.
Rowe and Daniel Marte Jr., 19, of the Bronx, were arrested after the two allegedly sold seven packets of heroin in the city to an undercover police officer, police said.
Both men were charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, police said. Marte was also charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, police said. Both charges are Class B felonies punishable by up to nine years in prison, police said.
Rowe, an Army veteran, was a producer of the 2006 film "Loose Change," a documentary questioning the official explanation of the events on 9/11. The film was written and directed by Dylan Avery, who at the time lived in Oneonta.
The arrests were made at about 4:50 p.m. on Interstate 88 near westbound Exit 13, with the assistance of Otsego deputies, police said.
Seized during the investigation was $6,400 in cash and an additional 27 packets of heroin found in Marte's possession, police said.
Rowe and Marte were arraigned Friday in Oneonta City Court and sent to the Otsego County jail, police said.
Rowe was released on $10,000 cash, or $20,000 bond bail, and Marte was still held on $25,000 cash bail, or $50,000 bond, a jail officer said Friday evening.
http://thedailystar.com/localnews/x187081086/Loose-Change-filmmaker-charged-with-heroin-sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:30 pm