PHILLYSPEAKS EXCLUSIVE- What's the secret behind a popular Cheesesteak? Cocaine? Norman? Robbery?

**loveisnoise** · 08-11-2011, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by Queen Villager

Did I just imagine that I saw Norman at 4th and South this a.m.?

Like i said, I do not know exactly what happened to Norman during all of this since he was only brought up as the beginning of the investigation.

**SouthStMan** · 08-11-2011, 12:06 PM

Norman remains on the Street ... for now.

**NonAbsolut** · 08-11-2011, 12:19 PM

I saw an orange application for a liquor license on the side of Jim's this morning. Have they always sold booze or is this something new?

**Eastcoast** · 08-11-2011, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by NonAbsolut

I saw an orange application for a liquor license on the side of Jim's this morning. Have they always sold booze or is this something new?

Somehow I think the approval of that application may take a while. (unless it's one of the take-out apps that everyone seems to have hanging for the past year)

**EdMundo** · 08-11-2011, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by loveisnoise

This is, btw, a great coordinated effort between the South Street Headhouse District, the new LT. of the 3RD District Ministation, and the Narcotics Unit.

Won't disagree there, but it's too bad that Narcotics spends their time and resources busting a small operation that sells weed and a little blow to suburban twats yucking it up on South Street, but they can't seem to bust up the obvious drug dealing in the subsidized housing south of Christian, nor stop the turf war between the idiots there and their compadres further south that involves people shooting at and killing each other.

Maybe they're getting paid enough to look the other way.

**loveisnoise** · 08-11-2011, 03:42 PM

How do you know that it isn't connected and possibly part of a larger investigation? Additionally, I don't think $30,000 worth of drugs on one person's possession in one day is quite a small operation.

edit-it was no secret that Norman was a regular, err, fixture, on the corner houses of 5th and christian.

Originally Posted by EdMundo

Won't disagree there, but it's too bad that Narcotics spends their time and resources busting a small operation that sells weed and a little blow to suburban twats yucking it up on South Street, but they can't seem to bust up the obvious drug dealing in the subsidized housing south of Christian, nor stop the turf war between the idiots there and their compadres further south that involves people shooting at and killing each other.

Maybe they're getting paid enough to look the other way.

**EdMundo** · 08-11-2011, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by loveisnoise

How do you know that it isn't connected and possibly part of a larger investigation? Additionally, I don't think $30,000 worth of drugs on one person's possession in one day is quite a small operation.

I don't, but the fact that "commerce" at RCA has continued pretty much unobstructed and unabated since the same losers were moved back in after the reconstruction 11 years ago, leads me to believe that there is likely no investigative connection, and no interest on the part of South Division Narcotics.

I think of Jim's as being a small operation because it's flown under the radar for quite some time. Based on the not-so-clever side door subterfuge and the pathetically obvious frat bros in search of weed I've seen hovering around that corner for the past 10 years, I get the impression that it was going on at a level that the cops either couldn't pin down or that they could tolerate, maybe both. We don't know if that 30K was one day's take....do we?

**EdMundo** · 08-11-2011, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by loveisnoise

edit-it was no secret that Norman was a regular, err, fixture, on the corner houses of 5th and christian.

Ugh. Don't get me started on Norman. F*cking parasite. I was sad to hear that he was back from his R&R. Hide yo wife, hide yo kids, hide yo bikes

**loveisnoise** · 08-11-2011, 04:10 PM

Jim's hasn't flown under the radar-people just haven't connected the actors with it until now. Previously, one of the owners was busted for cocaine. At that point they found "140 grams of cocaine, 180 Valium tablets, 375 Mandrax tablets, 192 Halcion tablets, a small quantity of marijuana, a .38-caliber revolver, $2,450 in cash and drug paraphernalia including computerized weight scales and packaging items" in his home. One drug dealer can spot another one in a second, so I'd be amazed if they weren't connected.

Originally Posted by EdMundo

I don't, but the fact that "commerce" at RCA has continued pretty much unobstructed and unabated since the same losers were moved back in after the reconstruction 11 years ago, leads me to believe that there is likely no investigative connection, and no interest on the part of South Division Narcotics.

I think of Jim's as being a small operation because it's flown under the radar for quite some time. Based on the not-so-clever side door subterfuge and the pathetically obvious frat bros in search of weed I've seen hovering around that corner for the past 10 years, I get the impression that it was going on at a level that the cops either couldn't pin down or that they could tolerate, maybe both. We don't know if that 30K was one day's take....do we?

**EdMundo** · 08-11-2011, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by loveisnoise

Jim's hasn't flown under the radar-people just haven't connected the actors with it until now. Previously, one of the owners was busted for cocaine. At that point they found "140 grams of cocaine, 180 Valium tablets, 375 Mandrax tablets, 192 Halcion tablets, a small quantity of marijuana, a .38-caliber revolver, $2,450 in cash and drug paraphernalia including computerized weight scales and packaging items" in his home. One drug dealer can spot another one in a second, so I'd be amazed if they weren't connected.

Halcion and quaaludes?! Sh*t. What did they run out of generic Seconal? Kicking it old school.

I suppose there could be a connection, but all they're moving at RCA is weed and rock

**hubba1** · 08-11-2011, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by NonAbsolut

I saw an orange application for a liquor license on the side of Jim's this morning. Have they always sold booze or is this something new?

They always sold cans of beer, that may be, as mentioned above, a take out application.

**BeardScraper** · 08-12-2011, 12:16 PM

i definitely saw Norman at Mako's last night. he looked especially effed up. like he was coming off a bender of his own.

**loveisnoise** · 08-12-2011, 10:49 PM

Looked at the liquor application today. It is just a change in partnership/stock since that one owner recently died. Nothing more than paperwork housekeeping.

**desolate** · 08-15-2011, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by loveisnoise

Jim's hasn't flown under the radar-people just haven't connected the actors with it until now. Previously, one of the owners was busted for cocaine. At that point they found "140 grams of cocaine, 180 Valium tablets, 375 Mandrax tablets, 192 Halcion tablets, a small quantity of marijuana, a .38-caliber revolver, $2,450 in cash and drug paraphernalia including computerized weight scales and packaging items" in his home. One drug dealer can spot another one in a second, so I'd be amazed if they weren't connected.

SO when does this become slander?

Just wondering.

**Sycamore** · 08-15-2011, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by desolate

SO when does this become slander?

Just wondering.

When it stops being true?

**loveisnoise** · 08-15-2011, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by desolate

SO when does this become slander?

Just wondering.

And for the part you quoted?! Oh gee... now all of a sudden, desolate can't google?!?!?!
Jim's Steaks Owner Wins Drug Ruling - Philly.com
Now read along, if you can, densealot-
"An informant's tip led to a three-week investigation of Proetto and the request for a search warrant, according to court records. According to an affidavit of probable cause, police searching his home found 140 grams of cocaine, 180 Valium tablets, 375 Mandrax tablets, 192 Halcion tablets, a small quantity of marijuana, a .38-caliber revolver, $2,450 in cash and drug paraphernalia including computerized weight scales and packaging items."
"

**Malloy** · 08-16-2011, 11:34 AM

I deleted the personal bickering.

**Digthepast** · 08-17-2011, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by Malloy

I deleted the personal bickering.

Awww... Just when it was getting fun!

**loveisnoise** · 08-17-2011, 03:07 PM

There was no 'personal bickering'; dancealot, as usual, threw around a lot of terms he failed to understand, while being factually incorrect in his other posts. I merely pointed out his inaccuracies, and that he obviously got lost and thought he was still in the nintendo poke on chatroom mommy subscribed for him.

**CHIOSSO** · 08-17-2011, 04:15 PM

I love the bickering, nobody bitch slaps like loveisnoise.
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