DILAUDID CAUSES ONE MORE DEATH AND CRIMES IN SAINT JOHN!!!!

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Lets not forgot the 15 prostitutes who are selling their bodies for Dilaudid.

These poor women are on a huge waiting list!!!

Does Bernard Lord care??? Of course not!!!!



This is such an important and urgent issue that I'm pasting the whole letter on the front blog!

Here's the email!!!!

Saint John today-3 crimes and one funeral all for dilaudids

Charlie here is a all in one package for your readers I thought you
might be interested in.

Keep up the awareness campaigne, Great job.

The death is a young man also of Saint John (Dxxxxx Pxxxx)The Funeral
is today.
This was indeed a death in waiting he was a former tenant of my
address, I had to evict him about 2 years ago because of his addiction to
dilaudids and many needles around the property He had also been evicted
from an address just down the street as well because he had burnt his bed
while getting his fix and passed out.

Along with many other situations he found himself in many times from
his addiction.

NB Telegraph-Journal | Courts/Crime
As published on page B3 on April 20, 2006

Taxi cab robbers sent to prison
Telegraph-Journal

#1/ A young, good looking couple with no criminal records were each
sentenced to three years in a federal penitentiary Wednesday after using a
knife to rob a cab driver.

Matthew Paul Martin, 22, of Main Street North and his girlfriend
Tiffany Lynn Martin, 20, of Tulip Street went on a Dilaudid fueled binge
after Mr. Martin received a $700 income tax refund in February. But with
their drugs costing them each $50 per day the money didn't last long.

By March 16 they were desperate enough to attempt a daylight robbery of
a taxi driver, looking for easy cash. They flagged down a female driver
in a Royal cab near the Sobeys in Lansdowne Place and asked her to take
them to Victoria Street. Ms. Martin got in the front seat and Mr.
Martin sat in the back.

Before they reached their destination Ms. Martin told the cab driver to
pull over. As she did so, Mr. Martin held a large knife to her throat
and demanded money.

The pair made off with $125 in cash from the driver and took her
two-way radio, throwing it away from the car and telling her not to contact
the police.

The couple were already known to officers and awaiting court
appearances on charges of credit card fraud and purse snatching, so when the
driver described them officers had an idea where to look for them. They
were found hiding in a closet of a North End apartment where they were
staying with other people.

Ms. Martin was already facing charges of using a stolen credit card
from an incident on March 12. That Sunday a car parked at the Cathedral on
Waterloo Street was broken into while the owners were in church.

When the female owner reported her card stolen within an hour it had
already been used at the NB Liquor store on King Street and refused at a
smoke shop in the North End. A review of video tapes showed Ms. Martin
carrying out the transactions, with Mr. Martin in the background. Both
denied any role in stealing the card.

Mr. Martin admitted Wednesday that on the day before the armed robbery
he ran through the atrium at Market Square and grabbed a purse from a
78-year-old woman who was sitting with friends. The women and a store
keeper gave chase and told police the robber had gone toward Harbour
Passage where officers arrested him a short while later with the woman's
cheques, cash and credit cards as well as her heart pills.

Provincial Court Judge William McCarroll told Mr. Martin that if the
lady had died of a heart attack as a result of the robbery he could have
been charged with manslaughter.

The 58-year-old female cab driver, who was in court Wednesday, provided
a victim impact statement. She had been driving a cab for 25 years,
starting after her husband died and had raised three children on her own.

She had always worked days and had always enjoyed working with the
public but she no longer feels safe and has trouble sleeping.

"If we could do away with drugs and alcohol it would reduce work in the
courts by 80 per cent," said Judge McCarroll.


Addicted couple avoid jail time

Reginald Gerald Corcoran, 27, and Lacey Williams, 23, of Quispamsis
both escaped jail sentences Wednesday after pleading guilty to several
shoplifting charges. The couple, who have a young son, began a downward
spiral after becoming addicted to Dilaudid. Since their arrest earlier
this year they have started treatment with Methadone and counselling. Ms.
Williams, who had no criminal record, was given a conditional discharge
and placed on probation for one year to perform 60 hours of community
service. Mr. Corcoran, who has a record, was fined $690 and ordered to
pay restitution of $169 to Canadian Tire.

YOUNG WOMAN SENT TO JAIL...

Cora Marie Jefferson, 21, was sentenced to 55 days in jail for a series
of thefts and defrauding taxis by refusing to pay dating from January
to March 2006. Provincial Court Judge Alfred Brien noted that she had a
very difficult childhood.

"You've got to make some hard decisions about not being around people
who are going to drag you down," he said.

Duty Counsel Brian Ferguson said she is young enough to turn her life
around and deal with her addictions.