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Busted on Burton Street
Richmond Police seized more than 6 pounds of narcotics and approximately $20,000 in cash during two searches in the Fan and the East End this past weekend. On Friday night in the East End, Sector 111 officers searched a residence in the 2400 block of Burton Street and seized $7,000 in cash and approximately 23 grams of crack cocaine. A warrant was also issued for the resident.
On Sunday night in the Fan area, Sector 313 Officers Daniel Dixon and Matthew Sacksteder responded to a residence in the 2900 block of Idlewood Avenue after receiving a complaint for the smell of marijuana. After receiving permission to enter the residence, the officers saw several narcotic-related items. A search later resulted in the seizure of approximately 5 to 6 pounds of marijuana, $12,000 to $13,000 in cash, cell phones and a computer. Resident Bryce T. McClellan, 22, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
I don’t understand why these articles/news are exploiting all of Bryce’s information, yet this other individual who has committed a much more severe crime has no further details stated about him. It is completely unfair for them to show his picture and release his name.
Guess I’ll be dry this weekend, damn!
Hey, aren’t those the lyrics to a Grateful Dead tune:
“Busted/
Down on Burton Street…”
😉
You guys should get all of your facts straight before you expose someone like this.
Yeah, that poor drug dealer was only doing his job. The police are mean for arresting him, and you guys should not print it as news!
Idiots.
Boo, MJ is not a real drug. I wish they would stick to arresting the real dealers and stop wasting time with hippies and college kids. Now the guy with the crack rocks def asked for it.
Excuse me Erik you have no reason to judge anyone until you know the whole story. So why don’t you come out of your narrow minded world and realize that something as petty as marijuana is not something that needs to be distributed all throughout the news. There are worse things happening out there yet they aren’t being broadcasted, because our government is corrupt and likes to hide these things with stupid incidents such as this. So you go along being a little puppet to this society and believe everything the government states is wrong is bad.
#7: WTF? Erik is narrow-minded? First off I’m not so sure what you said, second, this guy was a drug dealer…makes no difference whether he was selling MJ or crack…its still illegal. Lord, where did your thought process come from?!?!?!?!
S.E.W., there actually IS a huge difference between selling crack and marijuana. crack dealers operate as heavily armed gang units composed of murderers and rapists, getting their buyers hooked on a chemically altered drug, whether its a ten year old kid or a pregnant mother. once a crackhead spends all of their money on the drug, they steal to support their ADDICTION and eventually build up a debt with their dealer. when they cant pay the debt and it gets too high, no pun intended, they are murdered. period. weed dealers here serve specifically college kids spending mommy and daddy’s allowance with a naturally grown plant, a plant that is less harmful than the 40’s they can buy down the street with no ID at texaco. these college kids aren’t on the street stabbing your grandmother, taking her purse for a fix, they are at home putting off their homework, playing video games. these weed dealers aren’t offering your teenager with a free sample of heroin or crack, nor are they toting a 9mm under their belt buckle. If Virginia offered permits for the legal distribution of marijuana with a prescription like a growing number of states in the U.S, face it, this wouldn’t even be a news story.
“If Virginia offered permits for the legal distribution of marijuana with a prescription like a growing number of states in the U.S, face it, this wouldn’t even be a news story.”
Well those permits wouldn’t cover some 22 year old idiot with 6lbs of drugs on his kitchen table. (Seriously, why let the police in if you have that? I can see why he doesn’t have a real job.)
I hope it has not escaped the attention of this audience that the only residence on the 2400 block of Burton Street is the federally subsidized senior living home known as Church Hill House.
That’s right folks: your tax dollars at work, sponsoring a crack den run by an elderly male resident. For more federal guv’ment fun, just show up around the first of the month when the prostitutes take advantage of the flood of benefits into that building.
I’m all for a social safety net, but those who abuse it (and there are many) should be turned out on their ear to make room for deserving residents.
“Well those permits wouldn’t cover some 22 year old idiot with 6lbs of drugs on his kitchen table. (Seriously, why let the police in if you have that? I can see why he doesn’t have a real job.)”
You really need to get your facts straight before you call someone an idiot. He didn’t have six lbs and he didn’t let them in. He said no and they put him in handcuffs and got a search warrant. So word of advice don’t be so quick to point fingers when you don’t know all the information.
Guest, if it works the same way as it works when you’re pulled over, once the officer smelled marijuana he would no longer need a search warrant, as the smell is considered probable cause. Which opens up a whole new can of civil liberties issues because you can’t really prove in court what an officer smelled or didn’t smell.
My question is what kind of fill-in-the-blanks neighbor (I deleted about fifteen different adjectives here before deciding I better leave it alone) calls the police to complain that they smelled marijuana? Somebody needs more hobbies.
I agree Anne. Your neighbor would have to be a real bum-hole to call the cops on you just because they smelled some weed.
Unless they were tired of living next to a drug dealer and saw this as a way of taking care of the situation…
Or maybe someone ratted him out. Either way both are really low to push it all off on him
john, I could see your point, but this is a nice part of Carrytown and the guy who got busted seems like a young college kid. I could be wrong though. Either way, I think it is silly how the USA has created a black market for something as harmless as marijuana. And this is coming from someone who is drug free.
What is the street value of the 6 lbs of marijuana? Sometimes college kids get mixed up in a real dangerous world with just pot. There is a big difference between splitting a quarter with someone and running a drug distribution operation. They have to get to know some pretty dangerous people to be able to move large amounts of pot.
Personally, I doubt the bust came just because of a “complaint for the smell of marijuana”. In all probability, the cops knew something was going on at that residence and were waiting for their moment to make their move.
It is also very likely that the operation was “ratted out”, probably by another young college kid that got in over his head and got busted. It may be a shame how that works, but if a kid was given a chance to plea guilty to lesser charges and not ruin their life and college career for selling pot, I bet they’ll take that deal in most cases. After all, they didn’t come to college to major in drug dealer and become a professional pimp. I’m pretty sure that’s not a major, yet.
Cigarettes, Alcohol, and prescription drugs kill hunddreds of thousands of people every year and they are all legal. Reported cases of death by marijuana per year…zero. Marijuana is extremely unharmful and has many medicinal purposes. Richmond is sure showing it’s conservative roots on this one.
I, personally, am going to start calling the cops when my neighbor in Windsor Farms takes her meds then has cocktails with the ladies. That is far more dangerous than some weed.
For the right or wrong of it… it is still illegal.
Nullification, eds. The people don’t have to accept dumb laws.
Caroline.. you have to accept the “dumb” laws as long as they are laws. Think MJ should be changed and taxed… think how the new revenue would balanced the budget.
Also the tobacco farmers could use the new crop… think PM is ready to make the cig with in the first six months that MJ was legal.
“you have to accept the “dumb” laws as long as they are laws.”
You don’t seriously believe this. Would you feel the same if free speech was banned or slavery were made legal?
The law is the law, after all.
back to Burton St & CH House: last time i went to CH House, i showed my id to the security agent to enter. while doing that, a couple 16-year olds were leaving the building right about the time school was getting out…which tells me they played hooky at a relative’s apartment for the day, and waiting to leave till after 2 to evade the truancy officers. they were high as kites, literally skipped out the door chuckling and pattn’ each other on the back.
if your were a street dealer in the hood, where would be the safest place to stash my dope and cash? grandma’s apartment at CH house, where else? i bet the resident who’s apartment got raided was completely unaware that “junior” was stowing his crack & cash there.
kinda sucks for the management of CH House, i like em…and I like the residents I’ve met who live there. i hope the management and police dept work closely to prevent this from happening again. the idea of using CH House as a “safe harbor” for drugs and drug money is unacceptable .
Whether it’s against the law or not, there are millions of us that disobey the law. But 6 pounds of pot, depending on the quality, is worth at least $20,000 on the street. And with money like that, you are playing with some pretty major players. Whether I agree with pot being illegal or not, I sure wouldn’t want my kids to get involved with that. People can, and do, get shot over pot deals of that size gone bad.
Whether or not you believe that weed should be legal (I do), and is much more benign than stuff that is legal and endorsed (yep)I find it disturbing to hear the “just a college kid” reasoning.
6 lbs. not a personal consumption amount. It’s a business.
tiny, I agree with what you are saying, but will add this: The only reason big sums of money, guns, and violence get mixed up in the pot smoking world is thanks to the US Government. They started a war on drugs. They drove up the prices and created the black market. They made hardened criminals out of non-violent offenders. This is why I hate seeing the police waste their time bustin a guy selling weed. If no one enforced the silly law, the stuff would be easier for people to get, and then the black market would disappear. Lets hope that as the old fart ignorant law makers in this country die off, more reasonable laws for marijuana are imposed. These hippy college kids should not be making $20k off of weed, our government should be making this money in tax revenue.
Legalize it, tax it, distribute it.
You may feel the act of smoking marijuana is benign but $20,000 drug deals in a residential neighborhood is not. I laud the police for taking care of the situation before it got out of hand.
And, sorry, but if he’s such an upstanding young person, he wouldn’t be a drug dealer. He’d have a regular job like the rest of us. I have no pity for this guy, and I don’t care how you slice it…the civil liberties we try to defend don’t include selling pot. I’m not even sure why you try to defend that.