Police: 'Subway vigilante' Goetz arrested in undercover drug bust

[The Straight Story]

New York (CNN) -- A New York man dubbed the "subway vigilante" after he shot four youths in 1984 was arrested Friday for allegedly selling marijuana to an undercover officer, Sgt. Carlos Nieves told CNN.

Bernhard Goetz, 65, met the female undercover officer at Union Square Park on Friday and agreed to sell her marijuana, according to Nieves.

He then went to his nearby apartment to pick up the drugs, Nieves added.

After an exchange of the marijuana for $30, the undercover officer walked away and field members of the Manhattan south Narcotics Division swooped in to arrest Goetz, police told CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/02/us/new-york-vigilante-arrest/index.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. I thought he had died...

years ago.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

2. Bernie, Bernie!!!!!

What are you doing Dude?

[nashville_brook]

3. i'd much prefer we keep Bernie baked and happy.

[eShirl]

9. yep

and anyone else, too

[Journeyman]

4. How much will be spent to convict (and possibly incarcerate) for this $30 transaction? . . .

How much has been spent already merely setting up the sting and making the arrest?

And truly, how much marijuana is in question here? At today's prices, what does $30 get you? (Other than a night in jail, thousands in legal fees, and possibly 90 days or more in the hoosegow?)

[RZM]

6. It's madness

All said and done, it'll probably be thousands of dollars spent to make this bust happen and see it through to its legal conclusion.

All for a $30 bag? Beyond absurd.

[Journeyman]

10. Do you know how much $30 buys? . . .

I can remember when it was $10 for a three-finger bag, but that was decades ago. I'm not in the scene these days, but I've heard as much as hundreds per ounce. Now undoubtedly, it's more potent today. But how much high will $30 get you?

[RZM]

12. I've heard it's quite pricey in NYC

I imagine it was enough to get a few people high for one night.

[Politicalboi]

5. He'll need special protection too

Once word gets around about his killings.

[DiverDave]

7. Jesus, if you need to sell pot, move to Washington

state.
Anyone feeling safer with a dope peddler off the streets?
Christ a 30 dollar bag...they got a desperado this time.
Just a great way to spend taxpayer dollars.

[eShirl]

8. $30? What is that these days, like two joints?

If that's the worst he's up to these days, leave him be.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. AWESOME! A $500,000+ Taxpayer Funded Drug OP involving several full-time PD employees

excellently tactically executed utilizing well-funded taxpayer resources and removing a dangerous criminal from the streets placing him in taxpayer funded custody and preventing the dangerous sale of a dangerous 30 dollars of dangerous marry-wannna!

Yay, drug war!

[Rex]

13. It gives LEOs something to waste money on. Far better than taxing a cash crop

and making endless supplies with a free plant! Shit, next thing you know people will want to stop killing each other because everyone has some! What is next? Putting solar panels on everyone's roof and telling the electric company to fuck off?!

YEP, hemp and solar power...fucking hippies!

EDIT - forgot the

[stevenleser]

14. Wow, no real criminals to worry about I guess.

I know NYC has really low crime, but a sting for a $30 drug bust of marijuana?

The police should be ashamed of this.

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. And pot is decriminalized in New York. What a waste of resources.

[Nine]

16. At least he kept out of trouble for 30 years.

Unlike Zimmerman, who can't manage to stay out of the news for 30 minutes, it seems.