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Man Who Mailed Heroin Into Jail Gets Sentenced

"After the illicit ingredients were discovered and intercepted, the girlfriend was discovered dead in her jail cell. An autopsy determined Marion Lopez died of respiratory failure due to heroin withdrawal; her death was recorded in June 2011." Uhh, so who's the guilty party here? Although heroin withdrawal isn't supposed to be life threatening (such as, for example, withdrawal from alcohol or barbituates), apparently in this case it was. I don't sanction drug use but criminalizing it doesn't seem to work either. Wonder how they proved that the guy sent the stuff in? Did he mark down a return address?! This is actually a slightly convoluted story http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2012/jan/04/... Lopez (the one who ODed), served her jail term and was released during the period that Amesquita (her boyfriend) mailed in the heroin to her. Later, while she was out of custody, Lopez mailed in some heroin to another inmate named Jill. The heroin was as before rolled thin and pasted between two identical greeting cards (you'd think they would have learned by now that the copper were on to this sort of thing), and once again intercepted. It was after Lopez was arrested for sending in this heroin to Jill, that she died while in custody, within a day of being booked into jail.
— August 15, 2012 6 a.m.

None Darker Than Me

She was a Ne-gress!
— August 15, 2012 5:55 a.m.

Out of Prison, Living in Luxury

Actually I think it's pretty cool that Lerach before he made his money pined for the Gagosian mansion, located at 9776 La Jolla Farms Road, and now owns the newer house built at the same spot. I grew up on LJ Farms, just down the street from the Gagosian House, on the same ocean side and notwithstanding the fact that our house was huge and on nearly six acres the Gagosian's green copper top monstrosity always stood out. I can't blame Lerach for always wanting some of that, and given that he served his two years, I can't hold it against him that he's living in luxury now.
— August 15, 2012 5:52 a.m.