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The Knock, Part 3: Quan's Entrance & Exit
R. Alex Whitlock
[[Part 2]]
The Week Before
The police certainly
aren't strangers to Thrifthaven, but they'd been around three times in the previous two weeks and each time, my alley on Thrifthaven was short another tenant.
First it was Ryan Dees, a young black man that lived about four apartments over. They'd already picked up Ryan at a friend's house, but they came to search his apartment. He was apparently in the wrong place at the wrong time earlier and somehow they got him on "possession with intent to distribute." Personally, I'm those charges are a little suspect and while I've no doubt that Ryan partook in probably large amounts of illegal narcotics, it would actually surprise me if he was a big-time dealer.
The second guy I didn't know very well and I'm not even sure what they got him on. He'd only moved in a week or two prior and other than a few brief hellos, I never got to know him.
The third, and least surprising, was
Strang. He apparently missed his scheduled court date for the drug lab that he'd been caught with earlier in the year when they showed up on his doorstep and, in the process, discovered that Strang had - to say the least - fallen off the narcotics wagon.
Almost immediately after Strang moved out, Quan Chang moved in. Quan was Strang's friend and he'd been hanging around from time to time. A short, skinny Asian fellow Quan seemed nice enough and had a wonderful (and wonderfully friendly) golden labrador retriever. I often couldn't understand him through his accent, but when he asked for some help getting some stuff into his apartment I obliged.
Quan was in less than two days before the complex's owner was knocking on his door. Little to my knowledge, Quan missed the somewhat crucial step of going through management before moving in. The eviction was something of a sad scene with the owner all but yelling at Quan to get out all the while Quan's dog's tale is wagging and he was quite obviously thinking to himself "LOOKIT! LOOKIT! I GOT A NEW FRIEND!" as he tried to get the owner to play with him.
Quan had until morning to move out. Unaware that I was a witness to the exchange, his parting words were, "I'll be back, Alex. Talk to you later, man!"
to be continued...
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Observations
"possession with intent to distribute" is purely a quantity thing. It has nothing to do with whether or not they think you're actually trying to sell or not. There are set limits for various drug types, iirc, and if you have more than X amount of any given drug, then you are given that level of charge when charges are brought against you.
I vaguely remember that from the jury duty I was called in for (but not selected). I do know that some possession is quite small. Cocaine, for instance, (as was the jury duty) has a pretty small amount. Something equivilant to a few sugar packets.
As for "apparently in the wrong place at the wrong time." All I can say is that I hope you don't fall victim to that one. With all the riff-raff that's around you, and even from some of the stories of the ones that wander into your apartment, I can't help but think that something like that could easily happen to you.
Move.
I'd heard that about intent to distribute.
As for the last part, the ones that had come in to my apartment are pretty clean as far as drugs go. Yale is the most frequent visitor and he's clean. Loren, despite being really weird, is probably clean. The only concern is Stoner, who mostly just drinks copious amounts of alcohol and the drugs he takes tend to be prescription drugs he finangles out of a doctor.
But it is something that I've kept in mind.
As far as moving goes, I will but I need to determine a few things first: namely whether or not I'm going to be living in Gate City or Falls.
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