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Drug dealers and gas prices

Posted on September 18, 2008

From The Smoking Gun:Spiraling gas prices led an Indiana drug dealer to levy a fuel oil surcharge on customers purchasing cocaine, according to investigators. Anthony Salinas, 18, tacked on the gasoline surcharge when he sold a confidential police source coke on two occasions in June. While arranging one buy, Salinas told the source that a quarter-ounce of cocaine would cost $240--$215 for the drug itself and $25.00 for gas money to deliver the cocaine, according to the court affidavit, a copy of which you'll find below. Salinas, a Hammond resident, was named last week in a two-count felony ...

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