A Colorado meth ring of at least 41 suspects who were moving whole pounds of meth through the city and surrounding areas used a comic book collection worth at least $1/2 million to launder their money. If only the guys from Office Space had known someone on meth...
Two brothers suspected to be the ringleaders of the outfit were captured thanks to wire-taps on some 13 phones. The Weirding has no idea if the wire-taps were actually legal, but as one officer notes, meth-heads are responsible for as much as 2/3 of all crimes. They are filthy creatures of habit with no redeeming social value, whatsoever. When captured, the brothers' comic book collection included first-edition printings of such titles as Batman and Superman. The Weirding has no idea how many DC Comics readers are addicted to meth, but fears a Marvel ad campaign coming... ("The Choice of 'Clean' Collectors")
100 boxes of comic books were seized. According to police, some of the comics were worth thousands of dollars apiece! The brothers (whose last name is Castro - no, really!) would parlay the comic books from their collection into money whenever needed; they avoided keeping large sums of cash laying around by maintaining a comic book collection worth $500,000.
Meth-heads are becoming savvier, using a "shake-and-bake" method to create just enough dope for personal use and circumvent recent restrictions on pseudophedrine purchases, but cops believe the Castro brothers were involved in a major, international drug syndicate which created meth in a "superlab" in Mexico and used chicks to import it (in their No Zones!).
The Weirding does not know how the Castro Brothers transported their comics.
© C Harris Lynn, 2009
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