“Boston Bomber's” Former Friends Suspect Him In Triple Murder

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101. I actually told you how I know

The stories have two elements that would suggest retail level pot dealers, particularly with Rafi:

1) People describe him as always home, with frequent visitors. The implication is that he's moving small weight to lots of folks. That's retail level sales. The second victim here was also pinched with a small paper bag full of smaller bags, but it was a possession charge: another sign pointing to retail.

2) A friend of his is actually quoted saying "getting killed over a dime bag." I started being aware of guys moving different levels of weight when I was about 15 (years ago . As I think of the guys who were mid-level wholesalers, I can tell you that I'd never in a million years describe them as anything related to a "dime bag." That was three levels down. Seriously. Think of somebody you know who moves maybe a pound or two a week. If that person got killed, would you ever say "Oh, he got killed over a dime bag." Of course not.

If this guy was moving weight, he wouldn't be having the proverbial five-minute visitor over all the time, and his friends wouldn't associate him with dime bags. Retail, purely. Ultimately, he also wouldn't be 37 years old hanging out with 25 year olds in apartments. People who make triple-murder worthy money don't do that.

Now, I agree that we can't know for certain. Maybe he was the biggest pot dealer in the Northeast. I doubt it, though, and nothing really points to that. Stabbing three people who are not restrained is also not typical of planned drug murders - too much can go wrong. Yes, we're speculating. No, we can't know for sure. But this wasn't a drug murder; I' put a modest bet on that.