Ohio High School Kingpin Arrested in Major Drug Bust

[watts]

Ohio High School Kingpin Arrested in Major Drug Bust

http://abcnews.go.com/News/high-school-kingpin-arrested-million-dollar-drug-bust/story?id=16787358


July 16, 2012

Ohio police have arrested an alleged drug kingpin, a 17-year-old accused of running a multimillion dollar ring that distributed high-grade marijuana through two school districts and netted $20,000 a month.

When cops raided the boy's bedroom at his parents' home, they found over $6,000 in cash, prosecutors said.

Authorities have not released the student's name, because he was a 16-year-old minor at the time he committed the alleged drug deals. Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said the boy will be tried as juvenile.

Cops first became aware of a high-grade hydroponic strain of marijuana being sold for $350-$400 an ounce in the Mason school district near Cincinnati last year. An undercover agent began making buys at Mason High School, where the teenager was a student, and uncovered a dealing operation headed by the arrested student.

"The undercover officer uncovered six students or former students working for that individual and trafficking drugs in two school districts," Fornshell told ABC News.

"The group supplied an overwhelming amount of marijuana in the Mason and King school districts," Fornshell said.

The marijuana previously sold in the areas was a lower-grade variety smuggled into the U.S. through the border, but the weed they began seeing last year was a much more expensive product.

The student helped lead cops to uncover a major grow operation, run by locals out of warehouses and other buildings in three nearby towns.

Six other adult individuals were ultimately arrested for their role in growing and distributing the drug.

Authorities seized 600 plants from the three grow houses, with an estimated street value of $3 million.

All of the individuals have been indicted by a grand jury, but have yet to be arraigned or enter pleas.

 

[megayields]

DAMN those 17 year old kingpins!

 

[northstate]

Whoa. That sounds like a bad marketing plan (High Schools?) Snitches get stitches. Sucks that people are in trouble for a plant though.

 

[supermanlives]

hell ya thaT kid got a bright future. thats the time to learn when penalties are lower due to age. good luck kid i wish ya luck .

 

[Blue Socks]

"The student helped lead cops to uncover a major grow operation, run by locals out of warehouses and other buildings in three nearby towns."


Not cool bro...

 

[loudthoughts]

^^yeah, thats pretty lame.

guess the parents were just not around or...??

 

[yortbogey]

17 and doing that....think what he'd have been doing by 27.....if not retired by 37....
dam hypocrite's ...the boy had a life long career goal, and they cut him of @ the knee's....
think of the tax's he could have paid......dumbass draconian ageold lawbooks.....

 

[Yes4Prop215]

hardly call that kid a kingpin....he was doing good thats for sure, but just a kid selling to high school students who had a good connection direct from the growers. my outdoor partner had a nice stack that size in high school as well...it took me until 19 until i had a 6k re-up so hes got me beat by a few years but then again i didnt start selling weed until i was 18, in high school the weed market was saturated so i grew magic mushrooms and sold fancy shit like salvia..

just goes to show you, as a grower, never know when one of your buyers might lead cops straight to you...

i dont think it said the student snitched...they merely learned more after investigating him..

a "massive" grow lol thats a 4 light room, clean setup though looks like an ICmag room...600 plants worth 3 million, haha...yeah right. those plants are not 1lb yielding plants...total BS

 

[Friend]

teenagers cannot keep their mouths shut about anything.

 

[SpasticGramps]

Snitches get stitches. Stupid for the growers to peddle their product through a teenager. You know they are going to rat.

Nice setup though. Damn shame to see it get taken down.

 

[still pluggin]

What a fucking boss.

 

[benzo]

Balla!!!!

 

[Scottish Research]

He was not the boss. The growers got careless. A thinning out of the herd is generally good for a population.

R.Fortune

 

[Stoner4Life]

dealing w/teenagers? you reap what you sow. that kid woulda rolled even if they'd only threatened to take his Xbox away.......

 

[MIway]

Nice... back to brick. Cartels tipped off the popo

 

[Tyga]

Yeah tell me about it.... Your growing and your going to have 17 year old kid push it to high school kids? Come on... Must haven't been that good product because if it was there would have been a hundred other people lining up to move it.

 

[watts]

dealing w/teenagers? you reap what you sow. that kid woulda rolled even if they'd only threatened to take his Xbox away.......

had a kid snitch on me when we were in HS because his parents threatened to take his guitar. 2 years later he died drunk driving.

 

[shmalphy]

meanwhile, the national debt is

 

[ClosetAdvocate]

More wasted lives from the drug war.

Now those two school districts are completely drug free...

 

[SacredTHCRitual]

never talk about fight club