Early Morning Pick-Me-Up
A Hartford, Conn., police officer, leaving the police station after he got off duty at 2:15 a.m., was walking to his car in the parking lot when two men stopped him: they wanted to “buy coke,” they said. The officer agreed to sell them cocaine, but the men didn’t have the $60 the officer quoted, so they popped over to an ATM to get the cash. The nearest ATM: in the lobby of the police station. Sure enough, that’s where they went, and when they came back with the cash, Noah Yankowski and Zachary Pillarella, both 21, were arrested. “Given their inexperience,” said Deputy Chief Brian Foley, “they are likely not addicts.” (RC/Hartford Courant) ...Given their obliviocy, they likely are.Original Publication Date: 20 August 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
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