q I .,r -Ir 'Per- Ir Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, November 22, 1970 Sunday, November 22, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRITZ METZGER'S ALTES DEUTSCHES RESTAURANT WUNDERBAR SPEISEN! SAUERBRATEN MIT SPATZEN * GERBRATENES HUHN HASENPFEFFER * WEINER SCHNITZEL " KASSELER RIPPCHEN * KNACKWURST * BRATWURST SCHNAPS, BIER UND WEIN BITTE ANRUFFEN 662-0737 TAEGLICH GEOEFFNET 11 a.m. bis 8:30 p.m. SONNTAG 11 a.m. bis 8 p.m. GESCHLOSSEN DONNERSTAG 120 W.WA Washington AoZLICI WILL KOMMEN r I The heroin racket I on Detroit (Continued from Page 5) In the afternoon I explain- ed my phony dealership scheme to Darryl, who seemed interested, and then impressed when I tipped him $20 to buy an afternoon's worth of "j ones." Darryl was still skeptical, of course, and so I didn't press him to meet his contacts to buy the heroin. Instead I used some grand- motherly logic: I bought food to feed the entire house and we cooked four chickens with stuffing and layed out the cranberry sauce and aspara- gus tips. Everyone in Stone Manor isn't a junkie, but just about everyone's poor. They really appreciated the feast. After dinner I slipped Dar- ryl another $20 and I asked to go along to meet his source. A block away, past dark al- leys often littered with need- les and syringes and up three flights of stairs is the office of Frank Jacks, the neighbor- hood's biggest dealer., Frank grew up on these streets, a tough, no-nonsense kid who is now 35 years old, slow-talking, good looking, slightly paunchy heroin busi- nessman with four children at home and a wife in prison. He lives in a separate apart- ment around the corner with his children and his mistress, a runaway from Grosse Pointe who is eight months pregnant ourmet gifts Everything you could possibly want for Christmas and more ... all in one friendly, fascinating store! S west side I 1 : "t' B . and babysits in return for her daily supply of heroin. One of Frank's bodyguards (who are not junkies be- cause Frank can't trust junkies to guard him) opens' the door. Two youths are on rtheir way out of the cramp- ed apartment which is lit- tered with broken furniture. There are three rooms: the living room where another guard sits menacingly on a couch, shotgun craddled In his arms, the kitchen where j open cupboard doors reveal A guard aims his 45 at Dar ry l's head. "Don't reach in your pocket li ke that," he says. empty shelves, and the bed- room where Frank is sitting with a needle stuck in his thigh waiting for a "rush" from one of six hits he takes daily to satisfy his $150-a- day habit. "Who's he?" the guard tilts his head at me. "He's cool," Darryl assures him. "We're gonna be partners." Darryl reaches into h i s pocket for the money and a Continued on Page 14 CYCLE STORAGE Don't Leave Your Motorcycle Out in the Cold. WE'LL KEEP IT WARM AND DRY ALL WINTER FOR A SMALL FEE. We'll Even Protect It With a Burglar Alarm System DOWNTOWN HONDA 665-8637 310 E. WASHINGTON nnfmEpilogue Frank returned to jail last week, a mi- than narcotics violations, and they con- nor sentence far a minor crime, larceny centrate their undercover work on large STUDENTS! We hav y= from a building. He has a lengthy police suppliers. But even when they intercept record, most of them for misdemeanors a big shipment, they admit it only takes ; and the ineans to give which police use to harrass dealers when a few days for organized crime to replace they can't prove they are actually selling it. r I i heroin. The heroin industry is big business. Any Frank's girlfriend returned to her par- industry with a 10,000 per cent profit al- TEAC ents in Grosse Pointe after a version of ways is. this article which I wrote for the Free Before asking what can be done, we AR Press was printed. She is expecting her should assess the situation: baby in two weeks. The baby should be all One, heroin has been ruining black peo- KENWOOD right under a doctor's supervision even ple in the inner cities of this country for though it will be born an addict. 25 years and no one paid any attention. JENSEN Darryl called the Free Press after the Now that white suburban kids are getting SOY Yseries hit the newsstands and wairned: hooked, the newsoprrs and the public SO "I'm getting out of the state becqce mYv ar finally concerned. We can bitch about life ain't worth a plug nickle new. And reism but werhave to take advantage of ifyudntwn rn' osafter you, the Dublic outrage. 121W. Washington you'll get the hell outta here, too." He Two, most people still believe the po- and ue pesumbly ave eft.lice will solve the problem. We must ac- The mother of one junkie I met called cept the fact that they can't. I a a to say her daughter had decided to re- Three, most kids still believe they can turn home to Royal Oak to dry out. But get off heroin just like they can stop h most junkies in the neighborhood are smoking marijuana. They must be con- still going through the same dehuman- vinced that this not only isn't true phys- izing routine to satisfy their appetites. ically, it isn't true commercially. Heroin Most have no place to go home to. dealers have a vested interest in regulat- One thing should be clear: The police ing the flow of heroin to addicts so they are never going to stop heroin traffick- will always come back for more. ing and they're never going to stop street My experiences have convinced me that crime. the only solution is a controlled legaliza- Detroit police concede that point. tion of all drugs, including heroin. They're just a holding action until some- Aspirin addicts and heroin addicts are thing better comes along. both hypochondriacs. But one is a legal They don't have the time or the men hypochrondriac and the other is illegal. to infiltrate neighborhood operations like Both should be treated as medical pa- Frank's. And they don't want to risk the tients, not as criminals. danger or go through legal hassles when Controlled legalization will eliminate 50 they know arresting Frank isn't going to per cent of the street crime because that change the level of heroin sales and street much is directly associated with heroirr crime. traffic. It will cut the profit out of the t So they pick up dealers and junkies on heroin market. It will take politics out of chance arrests, usually for crimes other a medical issue. 334 S. State Street . ._ .;,:.- - . A .....mnl I P R N. Ultra modern way to serve: in cristacryl casserole, 14.95 0. Where do all the bottles go? Wood wine rack holds 11, 14.95 P. It's a wise owl who keepsP 3 qts. of ice cold. Stainless steel with brass, 24.95 Q. 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I didn't recognize the guy who had long hair and a beard. He could have been a trainee on The Daily when I was a senior editor or may- be somebody I'd met at a party in Ann Arbor. But he is sure he knows me. "You must be thinking of somebody e 1s e," I say. "I ain't never been to Ann Ar- bor. Hey, your mind must be getting rotten, man. Y o u better get a 'do' and relax." "Okay, sure," he says. "But it must have been your twin brother." Darryl overheard the con- versation and he started to question me. I put him off, going downstairs to the party to tell Richmond we w e r e getting the hell out. He packed his bags and tossed them over the porch railing into the al- ley below, while I scrupulous- An hour later we told Darryl we were going out for a beer. Richmond was wearing h i s knife. Darryl noticed the knife and growled, "O k a y, but I want to talk to you guys when you get back." 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