City Gas on the corner of White and Maple has an impressive collection of drug lacing materials. Not only does this establishment sell super lactose, they also peddle Inositol, another powder used to cut drugs. They say life is all about choices and City Gas delivers. In this clip the shop keeper tells Hakaan that it is a food product. At the very end it gets cut off but the shop keepers tells us he doesn't know "why they buy it." Interesting.
Just a little ways down Maple Ave, we found more lactose powder in Ravi Smokers's Discount World. This video clip gets cut short when the shop keeper asks Hakaan about his phone which is recording at the time. As a side note, this shop keep quoted us at $15 and $25 for super lactose when a week ago another shop keeper quoted us at $8 and $12. So when preparing narcotics for street distribution be sure to shop around on prices.
This is an old problem, going back to moonshiner days. The cops would note that some stores in rural areas sold a huge amount of copper piping and industrial amounts of yeast. There's a whole string of court cases on whether store owners can be charged as co-conspirators. (Short answer: No, unless they get most or all of their income from obviously criminal stuff).
ReplyDeleteI dig how packs of silly bands are sold right next to the lactose powder in the first store.
ReplyDeleteThe City Gas used to be a respectable establishment. My Uncle sold that a few years back and they converted it from a trusted local repair garage to a drug enabling sh*t hole. I don't even want to show him this article because he would be devestated.
ReplyDeleteThe last thread on this topic turned into a running jokefest where all the commenters wanted to outdo each other with flippant remarks. Presumably most don't live in Hartford.
ReplyDeleteNot only are these places a menace for the reasons you've stated, but area residents have to put up with the loitering, littering and attendant crime and quality of life issues that result from dealer enabling. It's possible to tell the gas stations that support this activity just from looking at the parking lot. As a woman, I don't support any business that has too many men continually hanging around the parking lot and entrance doors.
Lactose and chemical to cut drugs down are just the tip of the iceberg. In most bodegas or gas stations in this area (I live in the Maple/White area) you can also purchase on the cheap a small package containing a syringe, tea light, tinfoil, and rubber band. I guess the shop keeps also have no idea what people are buying THAT for either.
ReplyDeleteI was a customer of the predecessor of City Gas for over 20 years. It was the best repair/gas station in the city. The owner and mechanics took great care of all our vehicles, coming to assist my wife when her car broke down in New Haven, bringing the car back to Hartford and repairing it. They came to my house several times to work on a truck that wouldn't start and always gave me a ride home when I dropped a vehicle off for service. When the owner sold to City Gas, the change was almost immediate. I wouldn't stop there now for anything. Anonymous is right, his uncle would be devastated to see what's happened to the business he worked so hard to build and maintain for so many years.
ReplyDeleteThe AMOCO station before was a GAS and REPAIR shop, that's it. By the way, the brick building next to Ravi station is a H P D sub station !
ReplyDeleteand do you know what the fake roses they sell next to the registers are for?
ReplyDeleteIs this the reason why I have to poop so quickly?
ReplyDeletenicely done
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