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August 28, 2002, 2:06pm
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Cooking schools a hotbed of bowl sparkers and e-tards?!
N.H. police chief wants dorm forfeited under drug laws
DOVER, N.H. (AP) Police arrested nine current and former McIntosh College students on drug charges Tuesday, as the city police chief said he was pushing federal prosecutors to seize a college dorm under federal drug forfeiture laws.
‘‘It is an open-air drug market like we’ve never seen in the city,’’ Chief William Fenniman said of the dormitory at 181 Silver St., where most of the suspects lived. ''My idea is … to stop the building from being used for illicit activity. Whatever it takes to do that, I’m willing to do.
Fenniman said he has asked the U.S. attorney’s office to use the federal crack house law to seize the Silver Street dormitory, the ‘‘headquarters’’ of the drug trade. He said another meeting with federal prosecutors is scheduled for Thursday.
Jean Weld, an assistant U.S. attorney who handles forfeiture claims, said to seize a building prosecutors must prove the building owner ignored drug activity. She would not comment specifically on McIntosh College.
Fenniman admitted there would be ‘‘legal hurdles’’ to a forfeiture proceeding against the college. ‘‘But we think we can get over them,’’ he said.
I used to live two or three blocks from there, and nobody ever offered to sell me any drugs. I’m always the last to know.
Wow, for a second there I thought that the UNH police chief had been transfered to the next town over… to be honest, though, I had no idea that people lived at McIntosh in an offical dorm. The vast majority of people who go there commute.
Well that’s the problem, bib. You have to be in the dorm to get the access.
Which leads me to question the ‘open air drug market’ line. Wouldn’t it be more of a ‘hallway drug market’ thing?