Milwaukee Drug Houses
This is a good thing.
The Milwaukee City Attorney's office early today issued public nuisance actions against the owners of eight drug houses in an effort to curtail illegal drug activity.
The nuisance actions were filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court as part of the Known Drug House initiative launched by the Community Prosecution Unit of the City Attorney's office over the past year, City Attorney Grant Langley said.
The complaints were filed late Monday against the owners of suspected drug houses on the city's north and west side, Langley's office said.
Based on affidavits from the Police Department, all of the complaints involve property where police have made recent drug busts.
Among the complaints:
In March, Milwaukee police officers executed a search warrant at 1130 W. Washington St. and seized approximately 40 kilograms of marijuana with an estimated street value of $400,000. They also found 22 grams of cocaine and
crack cocaine, electronic scales and drug paraphernalia.
In January, an undercover police officer purchased marijuana from a convenience store at 4703 N. Hopkins St. from an individual near a meat counter in the store and later found multiple pre-packaged bags of marijuana inside a box of Cheetos and empty bags of consumed marijuana in an upstairs apartment.Last year in March, Milwaukee police seized 37 pre-packaged bags of marijuana at the counter of the store during an investigation following a shooting at the address.
I've always wondered why the phrase "known drug house" even exists. I would like to see the city move even quicker in cases like this.
The house in Milwaukee wherein I lived until I was four years old no longer exists. It became a drug house in the 80s and was torn down. While it is sad that such a place that hosted a huge part of my older brothers' and sister's childhood memories no longer exists, it's more disturbing to think about it being used as a crack house.
I'm all for cracking down on landlords who willingly allow their tennants to conduct this criminal behavior.
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Very few landlords actually allow this type of behavior to occur on their property.
In most cases, the neighbors won't call the landlord to let them know what is going on.
All to often, what happens is a tenant with a good credit history and clean criminal background rents the apt. with no intention of ever moving in. They do turn over the keys to their drug dealing friends. On the streets this is known as fronting. Our illustrious DA Mike McCann is well aware that this is going on but he chooses not to prosecute, of course that should shock no one.
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