Philadelphia P.D. make large Meth bust

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Police announce meth bust in Philadelphia
By Thomas J. Gibbons Jr.

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER


Police seized almost $1.8 million in methamphetamine today in a pre-dawn raid on a house in the lower Northeast that also was apparently being set up for use as a hydroponic marijuana operation.

Narcotics officers arrested the heavily tattooed resident, Boyd Cramer, 44, and charged him with a litany of drug offenses. But it was a booklet, "Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture," that was found in the house in the 4500 block of Higbee Street in Wissinoming that particularly irked law enforcement officers.

Paging through it at a press conference at the police Narcotics Division Headquarters at the old Frankford Arsenal, District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham noted that the booklet referred to methamphetamine as the "food of the gods."

"Methamphetamine kills. Methamphetamine destroys communities. Methamphetamine destroys lives. It is not the food of the gods. It's a message of death and the food of fools," she said.

Armed with a search warrant, raiders entered the twin around 5:30 a.m. They found 38.6 pounds of meth in crystal and rock form neatly packaged in plastic bags hidden in the basement in a safe under the washing machine."

The information that led us to this individual... came from an anonymous phone call that led us to his residence," said Chief Inspector Keith Sadler, head of the division, who attended the briefing along with Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson, Inspector Joseph Sullivan and other commanders.

Police also seized $4,600, five vehicles - including a Porsche and two high-priced Harley Davidson motorcycles - a quantity of Vitamin B used as a cutting agent, an 800-Mz police scanner set to receive the Northeast police band where the house is situated, and expensive lighting equipment for a hydroponic lab.


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[Kate]

Kudos to the anonymous caller. Gotta love it.

EXCELLENT job by the PPD! They rock!