Pubdate: Thu, 10 Feb 2011
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2011 The Calgary Sun
Contact:  http://www.calgarysun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Michael Wood
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm (Cocaine)

CRACK: LIVES LOST TO ADDICTION

The power of crack drives not only property crimes, it's forged a 
phrenetic battleground where addicts often wind up murdered on Calgary streets.

Eric Regimbald, a crackhead also embroiled in the trade, was left 
gasping for breath as blood emptied his body on a Chinatown road 
following a backseat dispute with another dealer on Aug. 27, 2006.

Just last month, jurors found Ryan Charles Everett, a 26-year-old 
drug dealer, guilty of manslaughter.

The violence continued in 2007, with at least one murder and several 
stabbings linked to crack.

Jacqueline Clara Crazybull, 44, bled to death on a Beltline street 
bench, stabbed in what friends described as a row over crack turf.

Four others were attacked within an hour that same early morning of 
July 11 by a group identified as three to four black men in a 
light-coloured car.

The bloodied and partially-clothed body of Tara Landgraf, who receded 
from friends and family into a spiralling crack addiction, was found 
on a Ramsay street in August that same year.

And in the case of Clifford Charles Hamilton, found slumped in a 
northeast alley Sept. 21, cops believe he may have been killed over 
as little as $100 worth or crack cocaine, a rock no bigger than an M&M.
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