Crack Pipes Often Disguised As Novelty Items At Stores

May 10, 2011 2:45 PM

Crack pipes are disguised as novelties in some neighborhood stores. (Credit: David L. Malhalab – MNS Photo )

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DETROIT (WWJ) – Be careful of what’s being sold under the counter.
Crack pipes are being sold at neighborhood stores from Detroit to the suburbs.

That’s according to former Detroit police officer David Mahalab, who says the pipes are disguised as novelties.

“To avoid police detection and to try to avoid the law, they put a pen insert – (in) a glass tube, and try to evade the law, which talks about paraphernalia and stuff that has a second use,” says Mahalab.

Mahalab says they’re also disguised as a ballpoint pen or small glass vases with a rose sticking out of them.

Mahalab says people may be surprised where the pipes are being sold.

“Dollar stores, gas stations, liquor stores, virtually every store in the 6th Precinct that I did enforcement with, were given a ticket and found guilty. I’ve seen them in Allen Park, Dearborn Heights and Garden City,” says Mahalab.

Mahalab says the pipe sales are lucrative, but bring crack addicts and crime to neighborhoods.

Crack Pipes Often Disguised As Novelty Items At Stores

Old geezer

Heck, I saw these things at party stores fifteen years ago. Back when my old neighborhood was still livable. Four homes with families our of twenty four houses. Houses for sale for ten grand or less. And just ten years ago people were paying premium prices. Kwame Kilpatrick should hang by his thumbs on a daily basis.
Jeff Davis

John Wilkes Booth was right!
http://www.editormichael.com MichaelEdits

So you’re saying I should do my shopping in Detroit. Thanks for the tip.
Louis Cipher

this is news? they’ve been doing this since the ’80s
alanwillingham

Plastic is now illegal if it is not in a government approved shape… WOW!
JT

You gotta be on crack to want to live in Detroit.
Jack

Welcome to twenty years ago. How is this even news?
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Reason8200

Just put a shelf of books by the items and no blks will go near them.
RufusVonDufus

If only they could sell brains!
RufusVonDufus

Jon
So white people never need food stamps or use crack? You really THAT stupid?
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No, Jon, we are not that stupid, but we realize that the ratio is about 1w to 1,000b’s! Blacks thrive on welfare. Don’t ask me for reparations, you fools have been getting them since Kennedy, Johnson and Carter. Wonderful Dem’s all!
RufusVonDufus

Rob Crawford
It has nothing to do with race. Only idiots use drugs, and idiocy is not associated with any “race”.
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If you are not kidding, you must be brain dead!
Ax

Sounds like such a wonderful place to raise a family!!
Blame Mayor Colman Young (D)
http://countingducks.wordpress.com countingducks

Shows how much I knew. I thought you meant cracked as in faulty. Shows you can learn something every day
Joe

You conservative republicans are exactly as stupid as the liberal democrats. Ever try thinking outside your spoon-fed conveniently-labeled box?
BetterDeadThanRed

Good, the only good Demarxist is a dead one. Keep smoking crack. Your MESSaih Obama aka Sotero wants you to kill whitey and smoke krak.
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