North Philly, May 4, 2001. Officer Sean Devlin, Narcotics Strike Force, was working the morning shift. Undercover surveillance. The neighborhood? Tough as a three dollar steak. Devlin knew. Five years on the beat, nine months with the Strike Force. He’d made fifteen, twenty drug busts in the neighborhood.The case involved a question of whether there was probable cause to arrest the dealer and the buyer; the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said no, and the other seven on the High Court apparently thought that even if the probable cause finding were reversed, there were other procedural errors along the way that would not alter the ultimate result of the case.
Devlin spotted him: a lone man on the corner. Another approached. Quick exchange of words. Cash handed over; small objects handed back. Each man then quickly on his own way. Devlin knew the guy wasn’t buying bus tokens. He radioed a description and Officer Stein picked up the buyer. Sure enough: three bags of crack in the guy’s pocket. Head downtown and book him. Just another day at the office.
But it leaves me hungry for Devlin! 2: Bust At The Riverfront.
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