Pill city : how two honor roll students foiled the Feds and built a drug empire / Kevin Deutsch.
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TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9781250110039
- 1250110033
- How two honor roll students foiled the Feds and built a drug empire
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In 2015, Baltimore plunged into the worst American riots in recent history. In the chaos, two high school honor-roll students, "Brick" and "Wax, used their smarts, computer skills, ambition and gang connections to change the world of illegal drugs forever. With their gang associates, they looted pharmacies and robbed dealers, stealing over one million doses of prescription narcotics and heroin with a street value of more than $100 million.
"Brick" and "Wax" were not going to sell drugs on corners; they used location-based technology and encrypted messaging software to dispatch ordered drugs via delivery drivers--an Uber-like service that eliminated street deals and easily tapped phones. They were soon supplying cities along the East Coast, creating a whole new class of opioid addicts with the FBI and DEA trailing in their wake. To ensure their supply of drugs did not run out, the teens formed an alliance with members of the Sinaloa cartel, headed by El Chapo.
Veteran Newsday crime reporter Kevin Deutsch has been reporting on the ground in drug-ravaged neighborhoods for over a year. He's seen the bodies. Across America, thousands are dying from opioid overdoses. This middle-class crisis has been well documented, but the inner cities, where families are being swallowed up by addiction, have been ignored. Deutsch brings us into this underworld, where social unrest and cutting-edge technology allow criminals to seed the next wave of dysfunction and despair.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266).
The rising plague. "An Uber of drug dealing" ; "Getting paid" ; "The United States of addiction" ; "The purge" ; "Playing from behind" ; "Boulevards of pain" ; "Sinners" -- Jimmy's world. "Supercartel" ; "Brother's keeper" ; "Expansion" -- The fallen. "They changed the game" ; "Freelancers" ; "The MASH unit" ; "Generation pill" ; "The interrupters" ; "Going dark" ; "A deadly migration" -- Taking stock. "Murdertown, USA" ; "Sky's the limit" ; "Civs" ; "Making a stand" -- New beginnings. "Clean money" ; "Starting fresh" ; "Loose ends" ; "Brave folks" ; "Trapped" ; "Best city in the world" -- "A Marshall Plan for addiction."
"An award-winning crime reporter describes how two high school honor-roll students used gang connections to loot pharmacies and sell narcotics through delivery drivers using location-based technology and even formed an alliance with the Mexican drug cartel headed by El Chapo,"--NoveList.