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We could have printed another Halloween issue this October. After all, it’s easy to write about costumes and parties, scary movies and candy. But instead, we wanted to get real with you for a change.

Halloween is intended to emphasize and exaggerate our worst fears, like being trapped in a spooky mansion with psycho murderers, having bugs crawl all over your body or being stalked by deranged ghosts and sadistic demons.

But, while all of this is the stuff of nightmares, the likelihood that any of these are ever going to happen to you is slim to none. And by none, I mean it is literally never going to happen. But Halloween is founded on fears, and we wanted to a make an issue fixed on the kinds of very real and very scary things that can happen on any given day of the week.

Everyone likes a scary movie based off a true story. So, we’re cutting to the chase in this issue, and giving you a slice of what’s real.

Without the theatrics, without the special effects, this is Knoxville unmasked.

In this issue, instead of stories about ghosts and ghouls, you will find stories about prostitution rings in Knoxville, local drug dealers’ methods and materials, the history of moonshine in Appalachia and the Civil War that tore apart Fort Sanders neighborhoods centuries ago. You can also read about how plagiarism can get you arrested, or what exactly you should be on the lookout for on Halloween night.

Maybe crime isn’t as sexy as black cats or masked clowns, but it’s a very real part of Scruffy City, and this issue is meant to inform and enlighten you on what’s really scary in the very city that you live in.

So, grab a blanket and a bag of your favorite chocolates, and tuck in to read about the darker side of the place we all call home.

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Stretch of Kingston’s cold bloody past Presley Smith

Opinions Editor The Bearden neighborhood, just west of campus along Kingston Pike, hasn’t always been a quaint little community full of restaurants and shops like it is now.

The area actually has a pretty dark past.

Bearden was founded in the late 1700s and was named for former Knoxville mayor Marcus De Lafayette Bearden. At the time, Kingston Pike was the new main road connecting Knoxville to Nashville, bringing increased settlement—and hostilities.

“The road didn’t go over the big hill, but around it to the south, through a forest, and visibility was so limited it was a handy place for highwaymen to pounce,” said local historian Jack Neely.

The first major crime in the area came sooner than expected. The first settler, James Miller, was murdered shortly after his arrival in the early 1790s. This was just the beginning.

“In the late 1700s, as white settlers spilled across the Appalachian Mountains, claiming Cherokee and Creek lands for their own, tensions between Native Americans and pioneers reached a boiling point,” said Charles Faulkner, author of “Massacre at Cavett’s Station Frontier Tennessee during the Cherokee Wars.”

In 1791, after the meeting of white settlers and the Cherokee peoples, both groups met to negotiate a treaty. This treaty, known as the “Treaty of Holston,” called for a boundary for the Cherokee nation, as well as peace and friendship.

The road didn’t go over the big hill, but around it to the south, through a forest, and visibility was so limited it was a handy place for highwaymen to pounce.”

According to a Knoxville News Sentinel article by Amy McRary, 41 Cherokee leaders signed the treaty. “They ceded all land east of the Clinch River north of a line through today’s Kingston and just south of contemporary Maryville to the North Carolina border. In return they got an annual $1,000, later $1,500,” according to the article.

William Blount was the lead negotiator of the treaty. His negotiations, mostly land-related, were not well received by the Cherokee nation, however.

“Whites moved onto Cherokee land and didn’t leave,” explained Racy. “Though the treaty said U.S. citizens weren’t to hunt or settle on Cherokee lands, some continued to do both.”

Land disputes continued and escalated with many of those stemming from the Treaty of Holston going unresolved.

“Knoxville settlers attacked a Cherokee negotiating party led by Chief Hanging Maw, resulting in the wounding of the chief and his wife and the death of several Indians,” Faulkner

Jack Neely, Knoxville historian said.

For revenge, 1,000 Cherokee and Creek warriors ambushed Knoxville on September 25, 1793. They zeroed-in on Cavett’s Station, the “fortified farmstead of Alexander Cavett and his family located in what is now west Knox County,” according to Faulkner.

In “Standard History of Knoxville, Tennessee,” John Wooldridge, George Mellen and William Rule described the events that followed, those that gave Bearden the nickname of “Murderer’s Hollow.” They explain that on September 25, 1793, near the end of the Cherokee–American wars, a large Chickamauga Cherokee and Creek contingent attacked and destroyed Cavett’s Station, which stood near Bearden, and massacred 12 of the station’s 13 inhabitants.”

Though the area was not home to murderers or serial killers, this attack and the tensions leading up to it, led settlers to nickname Bearden “Murderers’ Hollow,” and the name, as well as the legend, have stuck ever since.

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Academic crime within the classroom Rob Harvey

Asst. Sports Editor When one thinks of committing a crime, academic dishonesty might not come to mind.

However, academic dishonesty can be just as detrimental as any other crime and, specifically, can end a career.

At the University of Tennessee, the penalty for committing an act of academic dishonesty is just as severe as at any other university, which is stated in their code of conduct.

In its simplest form, if a student is caught breaking the code of conduct’s rules on academic dishonesty, then the professor must let the student know, either orally or written, what they saw and the evidence to support their claim, and they must give the student an opportunity to respond.

After the professor gives the student time to respond, they may issue a penalty to the student. The penalty can be anywhere from a reduced or failing grade to a student having to take the assignment again and using that grade.

The professor must also send the same notice sent to the student to the office of student judicial affairs as well, and the office will contact the student about possibly appealing the penalty. If the student chooses to appeal, they will have seven days to appeal before the office of student judicial affairs determines the punishment.

Because of this code, professors are strict about academic dishonesty and are on the lookout at all times during in class exams.

English professor Andrew Todd said that to find a student committing an offense, he must look for clues other than people simply looking at someone else’s paper.

“It’s not always just looking directly at other people’s papers, but if you see people wandering around a lot of times, they’re looking for notes and books or something like that is close,” Todd said.

Teachers like Todd, who also administer out of class essays and assignments, have to deal with academic dishonesty involving papers as well. The most common offense people think of, in regards to papers, is plagiarism, but Todd said that plagiarism isn’t the most common one he sees.

“I think the most surprising one that people run into is patch writing,” Todd said. “It is where someone takes (an) idea of someone else’s — so it is plagiarism basically, but they change it slightly. So, they might change certain words to synonyms ... and they think they paraphrased it. So (they) don’t need to quote it, so they write it off as their own writing.

“Usually, for a writing teacher, if you’re seeing someone’s writing over the course of the semester, you notice the moments when suddenly their writing skill or their ideas really shift or jump or drop, and it usually sticks out.”

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Corn from a jar: Moonshine finds home on rocky top Megan Patterson

Managing Editor At 14 years old, Ricky Estes watched his brother and more than 20 other men get arrested for production, possession and distribution of moonshine.

More than 50 years later, Estes legally makes “old-timey” moonshine at Short Mountain Distillery, but his distilling career goes back much further.

Estes, along with many East Tennesseans, grew up with moonshine as a part of life. He doesn’t recall a time when moonshine was absent from the family trade.

“We didn’t have no trouble selling it,” Estes said. “Everybody was making moonshine back then.”

In reality, Appalachian culture and moonshine have gone hand-in-hand since the arrival of the first Scotch-Irish settlers of the region. As immigrant farmers, they adapted to their new environment by growing corn, but also found a way to work this grain into their old way of life.

“At the end of growing season, whatever they didn’t use, they would then distill,” Sugarlands Distilling Co. head distiller Greg Eidam said.

“And they brought their stills with them from Scotland and Ireland, because that’s how they made their living.”

The Scotch-Irish descendants continued distilling as a second source of income and trade, but until prohibition, it remained a fairly local affair.

“Any time you make something illegal, you create a black market,” founder of Knoxville Distiller’s Guild Bill Kaufman said. “What they inadvertently did was, they made TN a moonshine hotspot.”

Throughout the 1920s, mobsters such as Al Capone made runs down to Tennessee to get liquor for their sales in distant states.

Moonshiners operated in the face of legal authority, and races between officers and the bootleggers were the origin of the sport of NASCAR. In this era, moonshining became both an industry

and a craft, and family businesses thrived.

“They knew to go to certain creeks where the certain plants they used would grow, but they didn’t know the reason was because the pH was right there,” Sugarlands Distilling Co. head distiller Greg Eidam said. “They just knew that it worked, and it got passed down from family to family or generation to generation.”

It helped that East Tennessee seemed naturally suited to cultivate this industry. With a hilly landscape and plentiful water sources, the area provided natural resources for both security from law enforcement and quality production.

After the end of prohibition, moonshine faded from the national consciousness, but in a state with only one wet county, where Jack Daniels was established, moonshiners like Estes still had plenty of reasons to keep distilling.

On his family’s 225 acre farm, Estes’ father and brothers would make moonshine in the hills using water from nearby waterfalls. With the start of the Vietnam war and the rise in marijuana, however, moonshiners would experience more federal attention, forcing producers to move their distilling outfits into caves or barns.

“You couldn’t hardly hide it out in the woods no more on account of the helicopters,” Estes said.

And at 18, Estes experienced his first own run-in with the law when officers discovered his moonshining still.

“I had a shotgun and I shot a tree to let him know I was behind him,” Estes said. “I wasn’t hunting, but I made out like I was hunting.”

He got off without the five years in prison he would have faced for moonshining, and soon Estes ran his own growing operation. At his peak, Estes ran a seven barrel outfit, much larger than what he currently operates and Short Mountain Distillery. He said that most other moonshiners at that time had only four barrels, which produced 200 gallons per batch.

For Estes, moonshining was never his entire livelihood, but it provided security when money ran tight.

“You can always survive when you’ve got a jug of moonshine sitting around,” Estes said.

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Moonshine steel at Sugarland’s Distillery Tom Cruise • The Daily Beacon Estes, his brother and their families experienced car trouble on their way home.

“We spent all the money trying to get the transmission fixed so we were broke before we left Florida,” Estes said. “When we got home, we took the wives and kids and they went to bed in the house and me and him went to the field.

We went out about midnight and got out about daylight the next morning, took it straight to the bootlegger and got $75 a piece on him.”

As the demand for moonshine grew, the product gained more variety, changing from a basic white spirit to include flavors.

“A lot of times that was done because if you had people who weren’t very good at distilling, it wasn’t a very clean product, and so you’d get a lot of chemical taste, and so you’d have flavors to kind of cover up that,” Sugarlands Distilling Co. head distiller Greg Eidam said.

The demand for flavor has stayed, leading to the variety of moonshine sold today, including liquors made for incorporation in cocktails. But for distillers today, the classic recipe still determines quality.

“As an unaged, white spirit, you really get to experience the grain that goes in it,” Sugarlands Distilling Co. head distiller Greg Eidam said.

“And you also get to tell how good the distiller is by how smooth it is. If it doesn’t have a chemical burn or a chemical aftertaste to it, then they probably did a pretty good job.”

Despite the long-time tradition of moonshining in East Tennessee, the industry only became legal in 2010.

“The legal distilleries were smart move because they basically ended an illegal trade and turned it into a tourist attraction and also collected taxes on it,” Kaufman said.

For moonshiners like Estes, this did nothing to change their craft, but it finally provided them a legal avenue for business.

“There’s a lot to it and a lot of ways that a lot of young people don’t know. I hear them talk about it up here at the distillery, and a lot of people don’t understand,” Estes said. “But me?

It’s simple for me to do because I’ve done it all my life. I ain’t gonna make no bad moonshine.”

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Certain crimes see uptake on Halloween night For most, October 31 brings candy, fun and costumes. However, just like its dark origins, Halloween can serve as a backdrop for ominous crimes and events to take place.

Evidence shows that, across both the United States and Canada, crime rates generally spike on Halloween, as compared to other consumer holidays.

Although Sergt. Charles Sennstrom, a communications agent of UTPD, states while they “typically do not see a real uptick in crime during Halloween on campus,” students should still take preventative measures to ensure their safety Halloween night. While Knoxville crime might not increase significantly, here are some typical Halloween crimes and how to avoid becoming a victim.

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Vandalism On average, crimerelated insurance claims spike by 24 percent on Halloween, according to 2016 data from Travelers Insurance. This includes particularly sharp increases in theft and vandalism. Once teens become too old for trick-or-treating, the focus turns to pulling pranks and tricks, which can sometimes lead up to vandalism. Claims due to vandalism and malicious mischief rise by 19 percent on Halloween. House eggings, TP-ing, smashing pumpkins and graffiting are commonly committed. UTPD suggests that citizens leave some lights on when away from home as criminals are less likely to strike when it is apparent someone is home.

Masked Crime To partake in the festivities of the evening, many citizens will be in costumes—some of which will feature masks. These masks, while some are well-meaning, hide the face. This creates the perfect blind spot for committing crimes like mugging and robbery. As for tips for students, Sennstrom stresses that students should avoid walking alone, especially at night. “Use the “T” transportation system provided by the university. You can request pickup at any of the 100 plus Blue Phones on campus or in the Fort Sanders area, or they can call for pick up at 974-4080. If they must walk, walk briskly and with confidence,” Sennstrom said.

Sexual Assault Although UT is a dry campus, it is no secret that students drink to celebrate-- really anything. Fort Sanders will be a hot spot for parties Halloween weekend, and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say alcohol more or less will be involved. As alcohol flows, things have higher likelihood of getting out of control. When students become more intoxicated, there is a higher risk of being sexually assaulted.

This can happen to anyone and can come from someone known or unknown. “(Students) should also remember if they choose to drink that alcohol can affect their ability to think clearly, their motor function and your vision all of which can put you at risk of becoming a victim of a crime,” Sennstrom said.“Look alert and be alert. Be aware of your surroundings, including potential dangers.

Students, staff and faculty should also remember to contact UT police if they see or anything suspicious.”

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The high price of pleasure Alex Holcomb

Contributor On Central Avenue in Knoxville, the business of prostitution is a commonplace, and largely ignored, crime, both by citizens and, until recently, police.

Central Avenue and the surrounding area is located right off of I-75 and is home to over 10 hotels. David Bennett, a hotel manager in the area, said this is the ideal spot for prostitution to happen.

“When you get areas like this that’s kind of a gray area of town, that is very heavily populated with hotels, it’s just a breeding ground for it,” Bennett said. “People want to say that prostitution really doesn’t exist. I see it day in and day out.”

Like Bennett, the Knoxville Police Department has seen and acknowledged that this is an area where prostitution is thriving.

“Prostitution is a pretty big problem in Knoxville in certain areas,” Knoxville Police Department Sergeant Sam Henard said. “Central Avenue, that’s where most of our street prostitutes work on a pretty regular basis.”

Nearly every hotel in the Central Avenue area admits to having to deal with prostitution, but they also all have policies for spotting and dealing with it when they see it. However, rules and a watchful eye can only do so much, and prostitution is still happening right under the noses of hotels.

“We don’t condone it, but it happens.

You’re stuck. There’s very little you can really do about it. Now, the cops do what they do. That’s their job,” Richard Mongeau, a front desk clerk at the Red Roof Inn on Central Avenue, said.

“You’re not going to sit and stand here at the gate and monitor every person that comes into your driveway to see if they have legitimate business.”

Prostitution, as Knoxville knows it, may never end, but there are some that

are trying to help those who cannot help themselves. For instance, a local church is creating programs to help those stuck in drug use and prostitution.

“We’re nearing a special event that we’ve been working on for almost a year. It’s called the Fresh Start Festival,” Pastor Stephen Doyal of Bookwalter United Methodist Church said. “There’s going to be all kinds of organizations here to help people find a job … We’re hoping that proves to be a real outreach for some of these folks that are maybe on the edge and struggling.”

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I guess, or the people that are picking her up — then for me, that sounds like a job well done,” Tackett said. “It’s one less person that has to go through a traumatic event.”

Patronizing sex in Tennessee is only a class B misdemeanor that can hand down a maximum of six months in jail and fines of no more than $500.

Henard, who has worked for KPD since 2005, said, “Honestly, I’ve never seen someone go to jail for a charge like that.”

While the police are more active in the area now, according to many hotel employees, it has not always been this

If I can curb violent crimes from happening to people — whether that is to the prostitute herself or to the people she’s servicing, I guess, or the people that are picking her up — then for me, that sounds like a job well done.”

Police have also been working to minimize prostitution on Central Avenue. On Sep. 30, a reverse prostitution sting was conducted by KPD that ended in the arrest of seven, mostly married, men. Melinda Tackett*, the undercover officer who played the part of a prostitute, has seen the never ending battle against prostitution and its violent outcomes firsthand.

“It can be scary. I hate to say that, but it can be a very dangerous and scary situation. But if I can curb violent crimes from happening to people — whether that is to the prostitute herself or to the people she’s servicing,

Melinda Tackett*, undercover officer

way.

“We’ve never had a quick response,” Lori Burke, a hotel manager at Sleep Inn on Central Avenue, said. “We had somebody who had presumably overdosed, and it took them (police officers) at least thirty minutes to get here.

And he was in the bed with a needle in his arm, and we couldn’t get him to wake up and get him to respond or anything.”

Outside of prostitution though, the hotels don’t feel like KPD is really helping them monitor their businesses when it comes to crimes and emergencies in the hotels.

“Even outside of just prostitution, or whatever it may be, there’s circumstances where we’ll call the cops fifteen times for an emergency – takes them two hours to get here,” Bennett said.

“So, when you asked me a second ago, ‘What do we really do about it?’ the honest answer is what can I do about it?”

While many in the area believe that police presence has grown, there is another obstacle that is stopping hotel managers from calling the now present police.

“The biggest issue to it is the owners of the properties,” Daniel Smith*, an area hotel employee, said. “There’s a lot of people we know what they’re doing and when they’re doing it, and as long as they’re not causing too many waves and they’re not very transparent about it, we let it run under the radar because he (the property owner) wants that money more than anything.

“That’s all it is. It’s the money.”

Unfortunately, for many involved, prostitution often does not end after one night for either the prostitute or the buyer. Instead, it can be a gateway into other crimes.

“I have seen, in the past, actually men that were never on drugs — they never did anything besides something like that (soliciting prostitution) — fall down that hill, if you’ll think of it like that, and then start doing the drugs that the females are doing as well,” Henard said.

Although they are often considered the criminals in the situation, the people who are often most hurt by the crime are the women who are prostituting. Many are victims of violent crime, forced drug use and rape.

“It’s a twisted, dark world,” Bennett said. “And I hate it because, I mean, you see some of these girls, and you have to wonder what really brought them to that walk of life.” *Names have been changed for sources’ safety.

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Community addresses Knoxville gang problems Chris Salvemini

Asst. News Editor On Dec. 17, 2015, high school student Zaevion Dobson died protecting three girls from gunfire. Knoxville Police Department Chief of Police David Rausch later called the shooting gangrelated and said Dobson was caught in between violence from rival gangs.

Since then, the Knoxville community rallied against Knoxville’s gangs. KPD is focusing on education and community programs to stop the growth of gangs, pushing for longer sentences for people convicted of gang-related crime and racking individual gang members. “We go out to the community and schools and try to educate folks on the gangs, because if they can see it, they can let us know what is going on ‌ as far as the front-end, the prevention end, we don’t have the manpower to do that, honestly. We try to do that in schools,â€?

Investigator Jim Quick said, from the KPD Gang/Intelligence Unit.

Most major gangs have a presence in Knoxville, Quick said, and the main way they make their money is through drug trafficking. They are mainly centralized in the inner city but can stretch beyond it. “A lot of our gang violence is sparked by something not even involved in a gang. It’s involving females, or drug rip-offs, or ‘somebody owes me money so I’m going to go over there and shoot them up’ or ‘I’ve been in jail, I got this girlfriend and she starts sleeping with somebody else,’� Quick said.

To stop gang-related violence, KPD works to prevent people from joining gangs in the first place through commu-

nity outreach and education. They offer free training with organizations seeking to sway people away from gangs.

Community organizations, like the Boys and Girls Scouts of America and Heal the Land, also try to stop the growth of gangs in Knoxville. “One of the primary goals of the Boy Scouts, or goal, is to help prepare young men and women to have a better future ‌ part of it is also to teach them about communicating, to teach them about self-respect and respecting others and teach them about citizenship,â€? Anthony Ingram said, the District Director for the Inner-City Knoxville Area for the Boy Scouts.

Gangs offer people purpose and brotherhood in addition to lucrative opportunities to make money, Quick said. They tend to develop in underprivileged communities since gangs offer a chance to pull out of an otherwise dim future.

The programs are designed to keep people distracted from gangs and away from crime. Some of the programs teach skills that people can use throughout their life. “I actually used some of the skills that I learned while I was scouting to save a young man’s life who was injured. I was at a friend’s house and a young man was clowning around and put his forearm to a glass panel on a door and was bleeding profusely. I was trained in first aid and emergency preparedness ‌ I was able to stop the bleeding and call the other emergency personnel,â€? Ingram said.

While Knoxville’s gang problem has not changed for better or worse, Quick said that KPD and the public are working together to confront gangs in their neighborhoods and improve the com- A carbine, a revolver and a semi-automatic handgun on display. munity.

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The Daily Beacon • Friday, October 28, 2016

Drug Dealers: The boys next door Bradi Musil

Editor-in-Chief

Jenna Butz

Special Projects Editor Two Daily Beacon reporters sat down with two Knoxville drug dealers: one a BCMB major at UT and another working a day job until he figures out what career he wants to pursue. They talked about what makes drug dealing a viable job, having guns pointed at them and what happened to all the molly. *Names have been changed to protect the identity of the individuals

Daily Beacon: So, how did you get into

dealing drugs?

Gilbert Myers*: Honestly, I guess, my brother and just the people I hung out with. It got cheaper if you bought more and just sold it to people. I also like to go to a lot of music festivals; it kind of took over whenever I went to those. I got like, the first neighbors I had, I sold a bunch of mushrooms (to), and there were just a whole bunch of people coming in and out. I did it because it was cool. It was just like everyone loved me, so it was an easy market.

DB: How long have you been doing it?

GM: On and off for … since whenever I got out of high school. So I guess, three years?

DB: Do you sell to mostly UT students?

GM: I sell to a lot of UT students, actually. Honestly, just from high school students to parents and other friends of mine, friends of friends just reach out and get comfortable ... It gets kind of weird after a while. When it comes to weed, I just try to act like a normal person. I also sell acid and sometimes mushrooms when I get them in. Sometimes molly, but that shit’s scarce.

DB: What about you?

Michael Smith*: I just really liked drugs, and it was easier than just wasting my money. People started buying them and then it just kind of snowballed from there. I’ve been doing it for about a year now? And most of my clients are UT students or people who are older that I work with.

DB: How do people find you guys to buy?

GM: Friends of friends. I try to keep it small, just to like, friends that I trust, people from work, people I trust … A lot of music shows, have you guys ever been to Nashville?

DB: Yeah.

GM: There’s

a lot of people there that I sell to.

DB: It’s mostly just meeting people and word of mouth?

GM: Yeah, and I guess it is like networking--chilling with them for a little bit, talking with them. Getting to know them, probably get their number of something, friend them on Facebook or something …

From fratboys to, I don’t know, just different types of people. It’s kind of cool seeing a bunch of different people all on the same day. Ask different people the same questions and just see what they say. So I can watch them go off about it. Like some other people have way different opinions.

DB: Is there, maybe besides someone ratting one of you out, like is there anything about dealing that does kind of scare you a little bit?

GM: Just getting pulled over. I don’t think anybody is going to pull my name out while I’m selling drugs, because I’m not selling like, heroin or coke or meth or something like that. I don’t know; what do you think?

MS: Um, not really. It’s kind of fun, like, you sometimes get sketchy clients. Like, I’ve had guns pulled on me, and I’ve had HIV needles pulled on me. Both of those are kind of weird, yeah. But like after that, nothing really kind of phases you. It’s also kind of exciting to do that.

DB: Yeah. *laughs* I’m sorry, I like, can’t imagine.

MS: I don’t know. I’m kind of an adrenaline junkie, so it kind of excites me when people do that.

DB: So, I’m curious about the going rate for what all you are selling. Can you kind of take us through? Like, how much you charge?

GM: Ok, um, we do $15 a G, $40 an eighth, $70 a quarter, $130 for a half.

DB: So, what about a tab?

GM: Tab, $10. $300 for a half sheet, and $550 a sheet. And really that’s it.

DB: How’s it (the money) for you guys?

GM: Like, not as much profit off of like, one go, but enough to get more, you know, without having to come back. It just like, keeping a nice minimum price to keep together. And also we’re trying to do it to hook people up, and also pay for itself.

As long as it’s been paid off, really, I give people a really good price.

MS: Our prices are pretty similar. I do $15 a G or $50 an eighth. And then I do $70 a quarter. And that’s for weed, and once I make my money back for what I spend, I lower my prices a little bit. And then acid I usually do $10-$15 a piece —

depending on who the person is. And then coke I do $50 for a half gram or $80 for a full gram.

DB: What would it be about a person where you’d raise the price for them?

GM: They’re bein’ a bitch. Like, literally, just being a straight bitch. Like, don’t complain about the price. Don’t complain about if, like, I don’t want to leave (my apartment), you probably have to come here to get it.

MS: It just depends on how difficult the person is.

GM: Yeah.

MS: And like how they carry themselves. If you have a really obnoxious thickhead frat guy come and want to buy drugs, you’re gonna pay more than someone who’s nice.

DB: How much would you guys guesstimate you make a month? Or a week, if that’s a better breakdown.

GM: I guess in a week we, probably like, if it’s good, $200-500? But that’s only if it’s super steady. It’d be like $100-300. I use it to pay for my groceries, my gas and my fun shit I do, like buying stupid shit like glass. Try to save up, but it doesn’t really happen. But then I don’t feel bad, because it’s not … It’s not taxed. So, the government doesn’t know about it.

MS: I probably make about $200-750ish, I think. And like he does, I just use it for all my bullshit, like groceries.

DB: When you guys do sell to students, what are students looking for, or what are certain types of students looking for different things? Like, is a frat dude looking for something different than like, an engineering major?

MS: Frat dudes are usually more interested in cocaine and weed than other drugs. Sometimes molly if there is a good show coming into town. And then other students are usually looking for acid or some ‘shrooms.

GM: I’ve never really sold hallucinogens to frat dudes. Only a handful. And then, like, if they would take one pill, then they can’t control themselves. It’s kind of funny to watch.

DB: Why is it so hard to get molly?

GM: Because people eat that shit up.

You can’t keep a steady flow, because they eat the shit out of it. Someone knows that someone has it, and then everyone’s freaking the fuck out.

MS: It’s also really hard to see some of the ingredients used to make it, since most of them are substances which are heavily controlled and are on government watchlists, and you can’t make a lot. So, it’s mostly made in smaller laboratories, like in the East and West Coast.

HARDKNOX

Friday, October 28, 2016 • The Daily Beacon

A drug dealer sorts a cash intake, marijuana, and ecstasy pills.

Psilocybin mushrooms

Marijuana

Pure MDMA, more commonly know as molly

N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, more commonly known as DMT.

Tabs of LSD, more commonly known as acid

All photos by Tyler Warner • The Daily Beacon

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