Pubdate: Tue, 18 Feb 2014
Source: Boston Herald (MA)
Copyright: 2014 The Boston Herald, Inc
Contact:  http://news.bostonherald.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/53
Author: Howie Carr
Page: 2

MEET YOUR FRIENDLY DRUG 'ADVISER'

Try not to let this story destroy your faith in the integrity of the
law-abiding individuals who want to muscle into the marijuana game
here in the commonwealth.

You know about Bill Delahunt, the former congressman and classmate of
Winter Hill hitman Johnny Martorano, who has three licenses and a
$250,000 annual salary selling drugs. Delahunt, I mean, not Martorano.

But Delahunt isn't the only prince of Reefer Madness. Meet Stephen
Rowan DeAngelo, the convicted-felon weed dealer and now "strategic
adviser" of the company that wants to put a pot store near a school in
Roxbury.

DeAngelo looks like he arrived out of Central Casting. With the
semi-porkpie hat, he bears a resemblance to Kid Rock's older brother.
But he also reminds you of ... Boy George, nowadays.

DeAngelo's downfall began when he tried to broker a marijuana deal
back in 2001. Also, the cops already had two CW's - cooperating
witnesses. This is the problem with the drug business, as I'm sure Mr.
DeAngelo well knows.

Drugs are a rat magnet. Small-time dealers get lugged, and "The Race
is On," as George Jones used to sing. The race to rat out everybody
else.

According to the statement of probable cause from 2001, the two CW's
had been stopped for a traffic violation in Collinsville, Ill., on
Jan. 26, 2001. They were carrying 250 pounds of cannabis sativa, Texas
tea, weed, pot, ganja, whatever you want to call it.

The mules were supposed to deliver the weed to College Park, Md.,
"where the marijuana was to be unloaded and $250,000 in cash was to be
placed in the RV." They had met the buyers a few days earlier in
Texas, where they'd picked out the weed they wanted to buy and have
transported to Maryland.

At this point, we meet the future Massachusetts marijuana mogul,
DeAngelo. He is in a white Ford van that heads to a meeting with the
mules, who are being followed by approximately the entire Maryland
State Police.

DeAngelo got out and went into the pot vehicle. The cops moved in for
the pinch.

"A total of 19 bundles of marijuana were removed from the RV totaling
approximately 219 lbs."

Next the cops went to a U-Store location, where they recovered $96,000
cash - "individually bundled and separated into increments commonly
used by drug dealers."

Then they went to DeAngelo's home: "Recovered from DEANGELO's
residence was two sandwich baggies containing marijuana, a commercial
digital scale and a notebook containing CDS (controlled dangerous
substances) calculation."

Don't worry, though, the DeAngelos plan to have a former Boston police
sergeant working for them.

And the pot store is several hundred feet from the nearest school.
What could possibly go wrong?
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