SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News/Chad Abraham "Father’s letter leads to major local drug bust"

This post is going to be hard for'SandBox Nanny'.  Her followers will likely feel similar.

If you have followed us for the past two years, then you know how loyal all of us are to our everyday heroes in law enforcement and related fields. 

You also know, or have guessed and put 2+2 together, that 'Nanny' has good reason to do the opposite and just cause to turn her back rather than support. 

Instead, she has often posted her belief that there is never, ever a reason that is worthy of suing any law enforcement agency or officer.  She does not personally believe in it.  She also has oft posted her personal support for law enforcement and military service.

All that loyalty and daily strokes for service men and women, who rarely hear a 'thank you', does not mean that when they are deserving of criticism that it should not be given.

Thank you goes out today. 

Not to our law enforcement.  But to 'Anonymous'.

Our local and regional law enforcement is not deserving of thanks in this bust. 

In fact, they are not deserving of thanks for any bust or any insight they have gleaned from commentary or other 'anonymous' media that has resulted  in a bust or help to an investigation.

Why?

Because all those cops and agencies have the majority of the citizens they swore to serve and protect still out here living in the shadows and afraid to speak up. 

Folks who are the cause and effect reality of there 'not being a cop in sight' who has the outward courage to stand up to the 'social gang-banging' and 'bullying'  done to them if they do speak and show themselves.  And to 'SandBox Nanny', that is a failure of duty that is not deserving of praise or enabling.

Chad Abraham:
"The investigation that led to one of Aspen’s largest narcotic busts in recent memory began when a local father wrote an anonymous letter to police saying the defendant in the case sold drugs to his teenage daughter....

.....“I am an anonymous concerned father who is writing to warn you of a drug dealer living in Aspen,” the letter says. “After a thorough investigation I have found out the following about the drug dealer.”

The letter writer then names Simmons, and provides his Park Circle address and his phone number. The writer even lists the substance that Simmons allegedly used to “cut” the drugs to make them more profitable.

Simmons was connected to another drug defendant, Max Puder, 18, of Aspen, through Puder’s cell phone, the warrant says. Puder was arrested for allegedly selling ecstasy Dec. 16 outside the Belly Up, and the charges against him will be...."  (Read more?  Click title)

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SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "Police arrest alleged Ecstasy buyer"

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This is the guy, Michael Dufresne, 30, of Woody Creek, who was trying to buy the "Molly" off Max Brandon Puder, age 18 outside of Aspen nightclub 'Belly Up' the other night.

The one who ran away.

"....He was arrested Tuesday night at his Woody Creek home after a series of serendipitous circumstances led authorities to him, according to police.

Aspen police officer Adam Loudon on Monday night reviewed surveillance tape from the Belly Up Aspen, outside of which the alleged drug transaction took place.

Loudon retrieved photographs of the man he recognized as the suspect who ran away from him when police observed the drug transaction on the stairs outside Belly Up.

He returned to the police station and showed the photos to Pitkin County Sheriff Deputy Parker Lathrop. Fifteen minutes later, a 911 hang-up call came into the communications center from a Woody Creek residence, to which Lathrop responded.

When Dufresne opened the door, the deputy recognized him as the suspect in the photos, which showed distinctive tattoos on his right forearm, according to police. Dufresne was shirtless and his tattoos were visible to Lathrop.

Once identified as the suspect, Loudon wrote a warrant for Dufresne’s arrest and had it signed by a judge Tuesday.

Dufresne is being held in Pitkin County Jail on a $10,000 bond, which was upped from the original $8,000. The increase was approved by Chief Judge James Boyd of Pitkin County District Court on Wednesday, said Aspen prosecutor Arnold Mordkin.

Mordkin said he plans to file an additional charge of assault on a police officer because when Dufresne allegedly ran from police, he already had one handcuff placed on his wrist and violently pulled it away.

When confronted by officers, Dufresne allegedly held up a baggie of a white powdery substance and gave what turned out to be Ecstasy to police before he successfully ran away...."
(sack@aspendailynews.com)

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