15 lbs of cocaine shipped to Mississippi school for the 2nd time in a week

[Wonk]

By MARGARET BAKER
THE SUN HERALD

HURLEY - Fifteen pounds of cocaine found in a ground-meat box at East Central Upper Elementary School came from the same shipment sent to an Ellisville school, where 15 pounds of cocaine was found in a ground meat box last week.

A cafeteria worker at the Hurley school found the cocaine in a box stamped Lot No. 021 early Monday morning.

"Some of the ground meat was taken out, and in its place was six bricks of cocaine," Lark Christian, food service director for the Jackson County School District, said Thursday. "When she was lifting the box to put it on a shelf, she knew it felt unusual. When she went back to check that box, sure enough it had been tampered with. It was the same lot number that Ellisville had."

(snip)

"It came out of Texas," Dickey said. "The meat was not contaminated with cocaine. I wouldn't want anyone to think that the cocaine was mixed in with the ground beef."

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[Wonk]

1. Is it just me or do messed up drug stories like this more often than not

have some connection to either Texas or Florida? :shrug:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Raising big campaign donation numbers...

Requires creativity.

[bobthedrummer]

3. Could the Cattlemen's Association be behind this Texas coke?

n/t

[harmonyguy]

4. Hmmmm - Shipped by Military Contractor ?

The same story goes on to say.....
"In the Ellisville case, a delivery driver from Merchants Co., which has offices in Hattiesburg and Jackson, found the cocaine stacked in a box when he stopped at Ellisville Elementary School to make a delivery."
<snip>
"...Jackson County School District still has 96 cases of the 021 shipment, but they are being returned to Merchants Co."

Now have a look at:
<http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2002/c12062002_ct620-02.html>
2nd paragraph down......

The Merchants Co.,* Hattiesburg, Miss., is being awarded $12,200,000 firm-fixed price with indefinite-quantity type contract for full line food distribution for the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and federal civilian agencies. Work will also be performed in Jackson, Miss. The performance completion date is Dec. 20, 2003. This contract is exercising its first year option. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were 30 proposals solicited with five responses. The contracting activity is the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (SP0300-03-D-3018)

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

5. nice catch, hg!

welcome!

[DUreader]

7. kick

[Minstrel Boy]

18. way to go, harmonyguy

A military contractor shipping cocaine sounds like Standard Operating Procedure.

Too bad this story will be filed in the "wacky-but-true" column and no "mainstream" press will make the connections.

[nostamj]

6. ?????? and the chimp didn't

*blow* in to read the goat story???

MISSION MISSED OPPORTUNITY

he'll need a toot to get through the UK shitstorm next week.

prediction: the trip will be called short due to an 'emerging situation' (or worse).

The Most Hated Man On Earth is going to try to step out of his bubble. it's NOT going to work.

this will be pointedly anti-BUSH, and just as pointedly NOT anti-american.

even if he's that aloof, his handlers KNOW he can't go anywhere on earth without massive protests and overwhelming loathing.

[Ellen Forradalom]

8. "Jeez, the cafeteria food always did blow, but this is ridiculous."

A little marching powder in your coffee??

[peekaloo]

13. Mmmmmmmmmm......Bolivian Hamburger Helper..............nt

[DUreader]

9. Lounge Material?

wtf

[harmonyguy]

12. See new info in thread n/t

[matcom]

10. George Was Sending It To Trent LOTT!

but obviously, lil Georgie can't quite get the address right. either that or the post office couldn't read Lott's address since it was scribbled with Red Crayon!

[harmonyguy]

11. New info - meat was from strong Dem family company

Turns out the meat was originally from H&H Meats of Mercedes Texas, a company owned by the Hinojosa family, which includes Congressman Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX).

source of meat....
<http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1524758&nav=2CSfJ7C5>

family connection....
<http://www.hoovers.com/h&h-meat-products/--ID__44773--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml>

Need to keep an eye on where this one goes......
HG

[DUreader]

14. Hey Harmony, You got Props on Al's Blog today!!

Top of the page as of this posting

http://www.bigleftoutside.com/

http://www.bigleftoutside.com/archives/000239.php

[harmonyguy]

15. Is that a good thing?

Hmmmm. Props, eh? I'm a little behind the times - is that a good thing?

I read Al's article, and now I'm trying to figure out what "intellectually honest fact-checkers" are.
By inference I guess I must be one, but I don't know if that was a compliment :) or something else x(....

HG

[DUreader]

17. That is a good thing, indeed.

Definitely a compliment.

Read some more of Al's Blog.

And check out www.narconews.com , now defunct but all archived awesome

reporting.

Al won a major lawsuit, benefitting all internet journalist, a few years back, when some big players tried to shut him down

for reporting what 'mainstream media' was ignoring.

[DUreader]

19. I wonder if we'll ever hear about it again

Will it go anywhere?

I doubt it

[Cooley Hurd]

16. Damn UPS!

I'm in NY, not MS!

[Catholic Sensation]

20. if the coke did get into the meat?

Would they have to raise the price of the lunch?

[harmonyguy]

21. Story didn't last the weekend

Looks like the media have moved on to other 'more important' things, like putting the goober back in gubernatorial inaugurations.

(Who cares about a few million bucks worth of white powder floating around elementary schools anyway?)
Google news has nothing since Friday the 15th. Maybe it'll show up again someday in the future.

HG