http://www.recorder.com/home/10491491-95/vt-woman-arrested-on-heroin-charges
Vt. woman arrested on heroin charges By DAVID RAINVILLE Recorder Staff Sunday, February 2, 2014 (Published in print: Monday, February 3, 2014) Recorder BERNARDSTON — Police took more than 80 bags of heroin off the streets after an Interstate 91 traffic stop. Mariah Gagne, 24, of Springfield, Vt., was arrested on charges of possession of heroin with intent to distribute, and possession of a Class B substance, as well as a license plate violation, after she was pulled over Friday afternoon. “When I pulled her over, I noticed her pupils were constricted, and she wore a tank top, making multiple track marks very visible on both of her arms,” said trooper Michael McNally. He said the woman had hidden the heroin in a body cavity in an attempt to avoid detection. McNally said Gagne first stated she was coming from Holyoke, then changed her mind and said she was on the way back from Pittsfield. He believes she was taking the heroin back to her home state. He said heroin is often purchased in the Springfield and Holyoke areas and taken back to Vermont to be sold for a profit. He praised Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin for addressing the Green Mountain State’s heroin problem in his recent state of the state address. Echoing the words of many officials in western Massachusetts, McNally said addiction treatment and prevention is needed to fight the Northeast’s heroin problem, in addition to enforcement of drug laws.
Unbelievable... This is becoming a multiple story every week. Just this weekend two women from Springfield have been busted with a large amount of heroin. I am planning on buying a house here and I'm really considering backing out now. I don't want my daughters anywhere near this epidemic that plagues this town. The really sad part is that it is only going to get worse before it gets better.
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ReplyDeleteAre these big bags or "one dose" bags.
Just this weekend 800 +/- "bags" have been taken out of circulation.
Assuming that they are one dose bags and only one is used per day per user, then that is enought to support 114 users for one week (or 57 users for two weeks). Double the consumption = 28 users for two weeks.
The point is, there must be alot of heroin being brougt in Springfield that is undetected.
But my question remains : Just how far does a "bag" of heroin go ??
After foolishly agreeing to host a state prison within its borders, Springfield has become a prisoner of its own stupidity. Politicians like Shumey will "address" the problem in their well publicized speeches, but they will never deal effectively with it. Springfield has been abandoned by state and federal leaders, who now treat the town and its citizens like the castaways from Gilligan's Island. But the real irony here is that the town, its sorry leaders, and liberal voters, asked for all this!
ReplyDeleteVery True!!
Delete"Treat" her for a week, then let her get back to business.
Delete@ 9:11, dead accurate assessment. Hope everyone is paying attention how our two, useless representatives, Emmons and Martin have been conspicuously silent on all this. Fact is, it's their liberal constituents and cohorts in Montpelier that are responsible for an economy that reads to this disparity.
DeleteHuge kudus to the administrator for gathering these articles from Mass papers.
it's comical to see anyone associate the prison with the drug problem. Woodstock had a prison for years, where is their problem? It comes down to the fact that the ones who can get out do, the ones that can't get out of their own way stay. The ones that stay have very little to look forward to such as jobs....The problems in this town were here long before the state build that prison and they won't get any better until their are opportunities for those that stay.
Delete100% correct 9:38, the prison is a convenient excuse for people, but the tragedy of this community is rooted in its in ability to move beyond the days of the "shops".
DeleteThat and the inability to accept that the town can no longer support the level of services it is providing. But, people will keep on blaming the prison and god forbid the big bad biomass plant that might actually grow the grand list to help support the current level of services provided.
Make some tough decisions Springfield, cut some jobs, eliminate some services and let's stop voting for every single article on the ballot that continue to drive our property taxes higher and higer.
What is her name?
ReplyDeleteMariah Gagne, 24.
ReplyDeletemaybe being arrested in another state will mean stiffer sentencing than our candybrain judges dish out.
ReplyDeleteI think there is more there than needed to get Valley Street high for a weekend, looking at the picture, try (my guess) six months. She lost the dope but someone else probably owned it. And they are some pissed off right now cause there is going to be MONEY unaccounted for.
ReplyDeleteNoted actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman died yesterday with a needle in his arm.
ReplyDeleteEven though he was an addict, he led a productive life, like many an alcoholic.
If heroin were treated as we treat alcohol: 1) He still would have had a problem. 2) His family might have been ashamed of his problem, but not afraid to confront him about it for fear of having him arrested. 3) He could have dealt openly about his problem. 4) He would have been at risk for behaving under its influence, such as DUI. 5) He would have been able to commit suicide by overdosing. 6) He wouldn't have a pusher bleeding him for profit maximization.
As for Mariah Gagne and Eugenia Stillwell, they wouldn't have had to be mules, try to make a living by attempting to rake in big profits illegally, or supporting an extremely expensive habit through criminality.
If Phillip Seymour Hoffman could be an addict yet a productive member of society, why not others? Get rid of the excess profits criminality generates, and we get rid of a lot of the problem.
His life was wasted, never productive.
DeleteChuck, legal drugs could be a prefect solution for you. If drugs were legal then you could complain about folks selling drugs and making to much money. A win, win for you.
DeleteI agree with Chuck... I agree with Chuck... Even if drugs were legal I still wouldn't do them. Would you?
DeleteChuck, tell me.....what color IS the sky in your world?
ReplyDeleteYou don't know much about Prohibition, do you, 9:54? I'm afraid unless you learn about that, nothing I say will make any difference to you. HOWEVER, if you want a barrel of laughs, do some researching on the Pulitzer divorce.
DeleteI believe his name was Joseph. He and his wife went through it in Florida-- maybe the mid-Sixties? At the time, ALL the documents on cases were open to the public, and theirs were in a shopping cart that reporters went through. One of them wrote a very, very funny account of their household expenditures and realized that there was close to half a million dollars that was unaccounted for. He concluded it had to have gone up their nose. I recommend tracking it down; it's really too good to miss.
Of course neither he nor she ever had to do any time… And I tracked down her next marriage-- the wedding photos were on the Internet-- I have never seen so much pancake makeup in my life. On a man.
And the whole thing might open up a window for you on the matter of illegal drugs and who they really affect….
Philip Hoffman killed his children's father. A wonderful legacy to leave them. What a crime. He lived a life of solitude, away from his acting. He, luckily, could afford his addiction, so he did not have to steal from his family and neighbors on a daily basis to pay for it. He committed suicide. Putting the needle in your arm is not an accident.
ReplyDelete11:51, alcoholics do the same thing. One of my gas station customers was a guy whose alcoholism was so bad he was having his legs amputated bit by bit as his uncontrolled diabetes (alcohol is like a sugar) caused gangrene. He afforded his addiction as well.
DeleteThe point is, shouldn't we be re-thinking how to make heroin addicts able to face their addiction openly and how to remove the profit motive from the drug trade?
@ 9:54
ReplyDeleteDon't feed the troll.
There are many heroin related articals in the news for Springfield.
ReplyDeleteIf Shumlin's "Treatment Plan" is so effective why is there no "good" news on how many people have been successfully treated ? (However it is a fact that once addicted always addicted even after 20 years of being clean)
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