I admire folks like this, but am waiting for the followup. She would wind up dead in Chicago, but maybe Indy is not so tough. Her tremor on her gun hand concerns me.

INDIANAPOLIS – Fed up and armed with a gun, a grandmother is trying to take back her neighborhood from the drug dealers she says ripped it apart.

Jonnie McIntosh gave WXIN her message for any criminals at work near her Haughville, Indiana block: “It is loaded. Get your drugs and get out of my neighborhood.”

McIntosh said two of those suspected drug dealers threatened to shoot her and her 70-year-old husband over a drug deal on Tuesday.

“He pulled his gun out and when I saw the gun come out that is when I grabbed my gun,” McIntosh said.

The no-nonsense granny said she grabbed her loaded Glock when the suspects demanded $20 for her grandson’s Spice debt.

“If you are stupid enough to sell it to these kids, you get what you deserve,” McIntosh said.

McIntosh told WXIN that her grandson just overdosed on Spice two weeks ago.

“I do not see what they get out of it," she said. "Who wants to sit there passed out and do not have a clue what is going on around them.”

McIntosh is trying to help him get clean, but said Spice dealers are on every street near her house.

Spice has been an ongoing issue for police in Indianapolis. Just this month, emergency crews recorded runs to nearly a dozen drug overdoses within a mile of McIntosh’s home.

“Back in my day, it was marijuana and Boones Farm wine. That is all my parents had to worry about. This stuff has bug spray in it and all kinds of chemicals. Whatever they decide to spray on it. Any way that they can get high,” McIntosh said.

Just last year, McIntosh’s pregnant granddaughter, 18-year-old Brittany McNew, was murdered near Haughville.

“She died over a drug deal because a guy decided to rob another guy for heroin and Spice,” said McIntosh.

This grandma is not ready to lose another loved one to the drug trade and said she will do whatever it takes to stop the dealers.

“Get off your lazy rump and get a job. Quit pushing drugs on these kids,” McIntosh said.


LINK:http://wgntv.com/2018/05/31/gun-toting-grandmother-tries-to-take-back-neighborhood-from-spice-dealers/

There are parts of Indy that most folks will not go, me included. Might not be Chicago, but murder is nationwide too, just less frequent in some places.

I'm all for the lady, but how is there even a street market for that stuff? It's not like pot is scarce anywhere in America either.

http://wgntv.com/2018/05/31/gu...-from-spice-dealers/

I'll allow it. /gavel/ Next.

That is, I'll allow the grandmas to do what no one else is doing to fix the situation and defend her property and family.

Weird. We haven't really had to deal with synthetics like K2/Spice in nearly a decade. I'm surprised to see that it's that popular elsewhere.

Synthetic cannabinoids like that had a brief spurt of popularity around here for a few years in the late 2000s, purely because it was brand spanking new and it wasn't illegal yet. At the time, it was sold over-the-counter at various shady gas stations and head shops. But as soon as the legislature caught up and it went on the Controlled Substance schedule, the availability went away, and everyone that was using it just went back to smoking pot. Now it's rarely ever encountered.

Most folks I talked to said they didn't like the high anyway. They just used it during that brief period because it was legal and available. We had a decent number of adverse reactions during that period, especially among teenagers, with a number of folks having to be hospitalized with stuff like heart palpitations and panic attacks.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
I'm all for the lady, but how is there even a street market for that stuff? It's not like pot is scarce anywhere in America either.

They referenced "spice" never heard of it? Bad shit.

http://thescienceexplorer.com/...hy-drug-so-dangerous

Plenty of youtube vids on it. It ain't anythign like pot.

Damn kids, riding Shai Hulud!

But no, really, spice? Why? In this day and age, why? Everything I've heard is that spice is not pleasant, as already mentioned by RogueJSK, it was popular for a minute because it was legal, but now it's not, so why risk it? Go get some pot, and a box of Twinkies, and bust out your Simpsons DVDs and be done with it.

"The Spice must flow."

Spice from Dune, or Spice from Jabba the Hutt?

Good for grandma. Hope she takes a few out and the jury refuses to convict her.

She needs to invite some Rangers over for a BBQ. The link listed does not work, but the story was copied in it's entirety onto the webpage. This story is from 2009. The incident happened in Tacoma in 1989 when the crack epidemic was at its height:

Ash Street shootout: The night that changed Tacoma's Hilltop

20 years ago, a tense Hilltop neighborhood erupted in hundreds of gunshots as gangsters fought Army Rangers for control. The shootout gained national attention and brought changes to the neighborhood and the city.

https://www.thehighroad.org/in...gang-members.477261/