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Cops Bust Alleged Drug Traffickers With 105 Pounds of Cocaine in Times Square

Nov. 27, 2012 11:33am
Alleged Drug Traffickers Indicted After Caught With 100 Pounds of Cocaine in Times Square

(AP File Photo)

Six alleged drug traffickers have been indicted roughly a month after police nabbed them with approximately 105 pounds of cocaine in the heart of New York City’s Times Square.

The drugs would have been worth about $5 million on the street, the New York Post relates, and if the authorities hadn’t been closely monitoring the situation the gang could have easily passed for tourists in the always-crowded area.  Many of the details of the case are just now emerging, as the case goes to court.

Alleged Drug Traffickers Indicted After Caught With 100 Pounds of Cocaine in Times Square

(Photo: Police Handout)

Gawker summarizes:

The bust sounds like something from a movie. One man, [Fernando Alvarado], was arrested after placing a suitcase containing 30 lbs of cocaine in the trunk of a silver BMW and attempting to drive off. Another man, Luis Cuevas-Muniz, loaded 8 lbs of blow in a livery cab, then went back inside to get a second bag, containing an additional 66 lbs. At this point, the state police grabbed two nearby NYPD officers, who assisted in arresting Cuevas-Muniz in the hotel’s lobby. The driver of the livery cab was stopped and arrested a few blocks away.

Two others were arrested inside a hotel room. A third suspect fled into the awful Times Square crowds and was “lost in the holiday decorations-gazing crowds,” a fate which, as Daily Intel points out, probably isn’t much better than being arrested.

Alleged Drug Traffickers Indicted After Caught With 100 Pounds of Cocaine in Times Square

(Photo: NYSP via CBSNewYork)

The indictment was announced Monday by city Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan and State Police Superintendent Joseph A. D’Amico.

Authorities said plane tickets and other evidence revealed that members of the group had traveled from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to White Plains, N.Y., with a stop in Orlando, Fla.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Comments (61)

  • TransmitToVladmir
    Posted on November 29, 2012 at 3:47am

    What a waste of time and money … YOUR “tax” money … that does NOTHING except provide busy-work for government thugs. Can’t recall the U.S. Constitution mentioning anything about free men getting drunk/drugs if they so choose …

    Oh, and just so you know … 2 MILLION AMERICANS HELD PRISONER! But not in Iraq. U.S. Federal & State governments presently hold over 2 million Americans prisoner. (How’s that for “land of the free”?)

    “US Prisoner Number Hits Two Million 4/11/03″
    http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/282/twomillion.shtml

    “U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738.html

    Yes, you’re paying for that too. Transmit to Vladmir …

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  • gobluebuckeye
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 11:28am

    And I bet they actually think they did something? All of these drugs were replaced by the time this story made the news, and for the 105 pounds they confiscated, they missed another 1000 pounds in a one mile radius of the bust. Listen, drugs are bad, especially cocaine, but the war on drugs is waste of money and resources. How about law enforcement goes after crimes that produce victims? 90% of all crimes that involve drugs are because of the black market. Anytime there is a want for a product, someone is going to find a way to make a buck supplying it. The only way to reduce the amount of drugs on the streets is to lessen the “want” for drugs, as we can never reduce the supply. This works, how do I know? Look at cigarettes, they are legal, yet there use is down substantially, why? Instead of making it illegal, we convinced people to stop using it.

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  • aldol
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:41pm

    i am inclined to think that the US will end up being a cesspool of corruption and crime just like Mexico and South Africa

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:25pm

      @aldol
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:41pm

      i am inclined to think that the US will end up being a cesspool of corruption and crime just like Mexico and South Africa
      ***
      I’m thinking you need to revisit your “tense” on that statement. Future has long since become past tense. That’s why so many of our young are mindless zombies just wanting their next fix. Used to be a few, but in Ohio I don’t know anyone who doesn’t personally know about a half dozen young people addicted to drugs or illegal pain killers, and I can think of about a dozen right off the bat.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:53pm

      What do you mean will? Were there!

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  • bobfrommosinee
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:13pm

    Want to bet the surnames are Hispanic?

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  • Nevermind
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 3:15pm

    Gary_K

    Oh, and the humor is from you barry azz kissers…

    How much does barry pay you for posting on the web?
    *****

    You caught me, the President of the United States is soo concerned by the folks on the blaze that he pays me personally to post on here just to get you ghuyus riled up. I mean you folks are soo important, without your support he woulndt have gotten a 2nd term. Oh thats right , he didnt give a crap about the folks like you and won without it

    It is really sad to me that you may actually believe some of this stuff but this is the site for loons like you. Take care pumpkin, i would say it was fun but it was quite pathetic

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    • Gary_K
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 3:23pm

      Here buy Larry’s book…http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Obama-Larry-Sinclair-Cocaine/dp/0578013878

      It’s titled ” Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder? “

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    • Gary_K
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 3:31pm

      Typical lib, you don’t have anything so you atack the messanger…

      Have fun kissing barry’s azz.

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      Gary_K  
    • Gary_K
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 4:40pm

      Oh, here is another article you might enjoy reading about your “lord and savior” bathhouse barry.

      http://degreesofmoderation.blogspot.com/2010/11/white-house-leaks-rumors-of-obamas.html

      In this one insiders describe barry is taking meds for anxiety and biden might pull the 25 th amendment on barry and replace him as POTUS.

      Read and learn.

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    • aldol
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 5:39pm

      Since 1965 85% of Legal immigrants came from third world countries, for the most part they were illiterate and likely to require government aid, they also for the most part exhibited higher birthrates than whites, as a consequence, the US may be on the way to be another South Africa after apartheid.
      i.e.: chronic crime, corruption, endless crises

      http://www.saveyourheritage.com/after_apartheid.htm

      the only possible alternative I can think of is break up similar to what Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia did

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:53pm

      Gary_K
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 4:40pm

      Oh, here is another article you might enjoy reading about your “lord and savior” bathhouse barry.
      @http://degreesofmoderation.blogspot.com/2010/11/white-house-leaks-rumors-of-obamas.html

      In this one insiders describe barry is taking meds for anxiety and biden might pull the 25 th amendment on barry and replace him as POTUS.

      Read and learn
      ****
      Read it, and I’ve noticed often that potus seemed to be doing drugs. Is that the Asia trip where he came back to be locked out of the Oval Office?
      One would wonder how having biden become president would be an answer to prayer, but we’ve got to think that some Americans would worry about having the “lunatic Caesar” in our white house and whether or not a fire in that Cess Pool on the Potomoc would leave America in the same shape as the Roman Empire. (We’d have an entirely different definition of fiddling while Rome burns I’m sure, but the same atmosphere.) May God deliver America and the world!

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    • Gary_K
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 8:22pm

      Mil Mom

      I have noticed the same thing at times, although I cannot stand to watch or hear barry.

      Isn’t it amazing that someone like barry is POTUS, then actually gets reelected and nothing can be done about it.

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  • Nevermind
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:49pm

    Gary_K

    Show me proof in his own words that he quit using drugs. Hint he never said that.

    Larry Sinclair says otherwise and so do some of the “insiders”.

    Watch your backside the bext time you bow down to ol bathhouse barry, you may get a surprise.
    *********

    You mean the guy who has been arrested for theft, forgery and many other crimes? Yeah he seems liek a stand up guy and i can take his word on anything. Nice try loser and to answer your question…No. I dont ” learn ” anything from this site. This site is purely for humor as most of the “stories” are usually wacky conspiricy theroies that just make me chuckle

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  • CivilColdWarWarrior
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:21pm

    If the Coca-Cola of 1885 containing cocaine and the cola nut still existed I will postulate there would have never been a cocaine and crack-cocaine problem in America. Forty years later and approximately a trillion dollars spent on the “drug war” and it is an abysmal failure. The most effective way to solve the illicit cocaine use is to allow the market to supply a legal source for those adults wishing to consume the product. It’s time to let the a market system and capitalism solve the problem.

    Then government can rightly so protect the innocent from the underground market.

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    • naughtycal
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:50pm

      You would think that these supposedly educated people that get elected to office would realize what the politician did when they ended prohibition ……..You can’t regulate morality….Fact is if they legalized to be sold sold by licensed owners, and also placed regulation on tax payer funded welfare and medical care to not cover those using drugs they could save billions and raise billions as well.

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    • freeberty
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:31pm

      Your trillion dollar estimate pays for too many parasites to ever get rid of, and the sheeple buy into the fabricated threat, hook ,line, and sinker.
      What would the government union parasites like judges, jailers and cops do, if you tried to stop them from stealing money out of your wallet?

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    • WarMunger_Al
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:35pm

      if they are busted with 105 lbs of cocaine, how is it they are only alleged drug traffickers?

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 6:58pm

      @WarMunger_Al
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:35pm

      if they are busted with 105 lbs of cocaine, how is it they are only alleged drug traffickers?
      ***
      Proves we’ve lost the language doesn’t it?

      Report this comment

      Mil Mom  
  • Nevermind
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:08pm

    Gary_K

    It figures that you wouldn’t understand what the word “former” meant.

    Besides, I wasn’t joking.
    ********
    If you understood the word former you would unerstand that Presdent Obama ( like most kids in schoool ) used drugs as a teenager, Beck spent the better part of his adult life with a straw in his nose. So you make fun of the guy who used drugs as a teen but make no mention of the host of this sites years of drug abuse?

    Stupid comments like yours from the right only serve as humor to the rest of the country. Which is why the right has become a joke and got whooped in the election. Go cling to your guns and bible mouth breather

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  • fastfacts
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:08pm

    If you haven’t seen it yet, you need to see conservative comedian Steven Crowder explain the truth about Marijuana: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/nov/crowder_marijuana_truth.html

    Maybe then these guys wouldn’t be so stupid about drugs…

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:20pm

      Keep MARIJUANA ILLEGAL, for our youth and our society…

      Report this comment

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:15pm

      fastfacts
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:20pm

      Keep MARIJUANA ILLEGAL, for our youth and our society…
      ==============================================

      Don’t forget the drug cartels too…….if the U.S. taxpayer wasn’t already providing the free service of wiping out their competitors for them, then those poor gang members would fall on hard times:

      ————–
      Mexican drug cartels’ US reach expanded over 300 percent in two years
      12:02 AM 09/30/2011

      Mexican drug cartels have expanded the scope of their U.S. operations over 300 percent in two years, from operating in at least 230 cities in 2008 to more than 1,000 cities in 2010, according to a comparison of the U.S. Justice Department’s National Drug Threat Assessments.
      http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/drug-war-mexican-cartels-u-s-reach-expands-over-400-percent-in-two-years/

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 7:51pm

      FASTFACTS… I watched your video. Mr. Crowder makes some good points. The best one being…

      “At the end of the day i can understand someone saying.. the federal government does not have the authority and has been largely ineffective in waging the federal war on drugs. That’s a completely legitimate argument.”

      His words- not mine. Seems to me the problem he has with pot is not that it is illegal.. but that a bunch of stoners in high school can’t articulate a good argument to him about why it should be decriminalized….

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  • Old Ogre
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:06pm

    48 kilo’s = 105 lbs, It looks like the photos show a lot more bags than 48 kilo’s and wouldn’t it take more than 3 suitcases to carry it all? I don’t know much about the drug scene but the article seems awful hyped to me!

    They must have had an informer in order to find the stuff, and warrants to nab the crooks, or is it really that bad now that the law can just nab anyone off the streets that look remotely suspicious?

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  • reneepb
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:46pm

    “A third suspect fled into the awful Times Square crowds and was “lost in the holiday decorations-gazing crowds,”

    On October 25th? Were these Halloween decorations? Just curious.

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  • nobummer12
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:36pm

    Looks like the CIA was caught making another shipment.

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  • willingtoupe
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:35pm

    They are hoarding stockpiles for Obama’s 2nd term and preparing for the fisical cliff. They also don’t trust those fake gold bars that Glenn Beck always advertise.

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  • BetterInformed
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:30pm

    So much for the 105 #’s. How about the other gazillion #’s ?

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  • TheVolleyballGod
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:23pm

    Guess his reindeer were too high to fly it in the normal way..

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  • FISH_BONE
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:14pm

    Lets hear from the Ron Paul / Gary Johnson crowd about how these “alleged” drug traffickers should be allowed to “allegedly” legally and “allegedly” freely sell their goods.

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    FISH_BONE  
    • searcher619
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:36pm

      @FISH_BONE:

      Actually they should. These drugs are no worse than alcohol or over the counter meds which are regularly abused. You can’t stop people from using drugs. The failed ‘war on drugs’ is testament to that fact. What should be done is all drugs should be legalized and regulated just like alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs are. If you abuse the drugs then you suffer the consequences just as people do who abuse alcohol. What adults do is their business. It should only become the public’s business when their resulting actions endanger or harm others or violate the law. Just like what is done with people who drink alcohol. Is that too complicated for you to grasp? We are adults and don’t need big government to wipe our asses and tell us we can’t do something “for our own good.”

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    • Old Ogre
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:58pm

      You are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Don’t knock it, its important to all of us, the medial hangs enough innocent people as it is. Think about how they slant stories about things they don’t like or disagree with.

      Imagine yourself being falsely accused of rape or child molesting now! You are immediately charged, and hung in the media on a NATIONAL LEVEL and then the truth comes out and its ignored in the media and your reputation is ruined for life, is that fair?

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:00pm

      Are you trying to say that you can’t stop yourself from ingesting cocaine?…

      Why do you need a law in place to stop yourself from engaging in an activity that you wouldn’t have engaged in otherwise??

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    • blackyb
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:02pm

      Those wanting this country to go to hell in a bandwagon are pro-drug. They are for the most part users themselves. This country should burn every illegal drug and punish those responsible for bringing in drugs to the country and selling thm on the streets to where they hesitate to do it again. As for Ron Paul and Johnson. They have no business in politics, for they are caving in to the druggies. I wish they would take all the drug sellers and ban them to an island where they would run roughshod over their own kind. Those addicted to drugs do nothing but waste away and commit crimes to support their habits. There should be somekind of help for those who really wants to get off drugs, but most of them are putting the drug addicts in charge of the drug rehab places, so how is that workin?

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    • searcher619
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Blacky:

      So you are telling us you don’t believe in personal accountability? they you don’t feel ADULTS should be free to put anything in their own bodies and accept the consequences for any actions they take while under the influence? How is Alcohol any different? Please enlighten me. I’m pretty sure your argument was also used during alcohol prohibition and yet the world is fine….

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:47pm

      blackyb
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:02pm

      Those wanting this country to go to hell in a bandwagon are pro-drug. They are for the most part users themselves. This country should burn every illegal drug and punish those responsible for bringing in drugs to the country and selling thm on the streets to where they hesitate to do it again.
      ===============================

      If you weren’t doing drugs, then drug dealers would go out of business…..

      As it stands now, then the drug war only reduces supply and eliminates smaller competitors that would otherwise compete against the drug cartels and subsequently reduce their monopolistic stranglehold over the marketplace.

      1. Reducing supply = good for the drug cartels
      2. Reducing the number of marketplace participants = fabulous for the drug cartels!

      So what are the two principal objectives of the drug war again?…

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    • searcher619
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:49pm

      @blackyb

      “Those wanting this country to go to hell in a bandwagon are pro-drug. They are for the most part users themselves. ”

      Actually I don’t use any drugs. I don’t even drink. I am pro personal liberty and accountability. I am anti-nanny-state. I don’t feel government has any business telling you what you can and can;t do with your own body. I feel that YOU know better what’s good and bad for you than the government does. If you want to abuse drugs and hide from the real world fine. You should be free to do just that. But that kind of freedom comes with accountability. You do anything to endanger or harm others or even break the law then you should be expected to suffer the consequences.

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  • RaydocX
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:06pm

    ‘alleged traffickers’?
    ALLEGED?
    What is the other explanation of 100 POUNDS of cocaine?
    ‘they misunderstood hearinga bout blowing up Times Square?’
    ‘on their way to a dental convention offering volume discount?’
    ‘they just found it laying around in the debris from Sandy and thought it was baking powder?’

    Justice has been subverted when what is obvious cannot be called such even outside the courtroom.
    Hopefully these ‘persons of interest’ will not be allowed to plead out for ‘information’ toward bigger fish… that trick is not available to your average law abiding citizen who mistakenly brings his registered firearm and CC permit to the city, after all…

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    • mercenary4freedom
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:53pm

      If this much was taken off the streets, double that amount got through.

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    • searcher619
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:55pm

      You are ignoring one HUGE fact. drugs are still freely available on the streets. these busts do nothing to stem the tide. What make a dent? Legalization. Legalization would take the violence out of the equation and bankrupt the drug cartels. It would also be an added revenue stream. How much tax money does alcohol and tobacco bring in each year? Legalization would also make the drugs SAFER for people. Less people dieing from turf wars, tainted drugs, and less people needlessly locked up for simply possessing the drugs.

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  • mchubinsky
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:54am

    Do we really need to say “alleged” when we are talking about this much weight? I am sure the 105 lbs wasn’t going to be for personal use.

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:45am

    Bold and right in front of us in plain sight….They don’t care!

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  • Gary_K
    Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:35am

    Now that this happened, where is barry going to get his supply?

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    Gary_K  
    • USPATRIOT101
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:46am

      The choom gang is in for a dull holiday.

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    • Nevermind
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:14pm

      Probably can get some from Glen Becks secret stash. You know Beck is a drug addict and this is his site, i find it funny on a site by a drug addict you make jokes about others drug use

      Nevermind  
    • Gary_K
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:39pm

      It figures that you wouldn’t understand what the word “former” meant.

      Besides, I wasn’t joking.

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    • DIgnified
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 12:55pm

      Gary, you’re an id io t.

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    • Gary_K
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 1:06pm

      unDIgnified

      At least I am not kissing bathhouse barry’s azz as his brain dead worshipers do.

      Are you a bathhouse barry worshiper?

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    • USPATRIOT101
      Posted on November 27, 2012 at 2:31pm

      @neverhadamind Way to try and make buttons about something you know nothing about. If Glenn were snoop dog smokin weed, you would praise the activity.

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