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Where Does The Seized Cash Go from Drug Raids in Ketchikan?

By Bonnie Abbot Allen

 

July 24, 2014
Thursday


I am writing another letter to SitNews due to the number of individuals that contacted me and wanted to lend their appreciation and to let me know that I should not stop on the subject of addiction an drugs in Ketchikan! It took me two months or longer to decide to type my questions I have today, and along with many others in Ketchikan! Where does all the cash go that is seized from drug raids or individuals that are caught with possession of narcotics when they have cash on them? They do lose it, this I know! But where does all the cash and expensive belongings go to? We all know they auction off seized vehicles and have been so, for years here! But I really would like to know the answer to this question!

My second question is where does Ketchikan Police Department Drug Enforcement BURN the drugs that are seized, when cases are settled out of court or when these individuals are sentenced? There is in every state and city county a spot where every law enforcement has a spot where they burn all their seized marijuana, heroin, methenphedamine, pharmaceuticals.

I ask my first question because I realized how much money they have seized, that has been in the upper hundreds of thousands in only cash, in the past four years here in Ketchikan! It is the year 2014! I have grown up here my entire life and have watched our kids, our teens and our adult children kill themselves!

We need more for our children to do here! I know I cannot put my daughter in gymnastics for free like it was when I was a child! We did not have to pay to play sports! It still sounds crazy to me, every time I think of it! I cannot afford to put my daughter in gymnastics, and she wants to attend more than breathing air, it's her life day after day!

The Drug Seized Money should go directly to a Special Non Profit Named Fund by KPD, so the kids that want to attend all the sports they want in Ketchikan can do just that!!! There are a lot of families who cannot afford yearbooks for their children from their schools or gear for the sports they need!

I suppose KPD would have to set something like this up, and someone be responsible for it too, should I apologise now or later Chief, lol?

And our second question, where do the drugs get burned in Ketchikan? If anyone knows the answers to my questions I'd love the feed back!

Thank You Very Much,

Bonnie J Abbot Allen
Ketchikan, Alaska

About: "27 years experience firsthand with drug addiction an the terrible darkness an awful consequences you face your entire life! It's an everyday battle, and you can always win that battle with the right people and higher power! "

Received July 11, 2014 - Published July 24, 2014

 

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