Crime in Calgary

[speedog]

Originally Posted by suburbia

I avoid that part of the inner city. Extremely sketchy.

Holy crap, if you're afraid of the Motel Village area then you've got issues that you need help with. Nothing sketchy about that area at all.

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by speedog

Holy crap, if you're afraid of the Motel Village area then you've got issues that you need help with. Nothing sketchy about that area at all.

No way, there is nothing more sketchy than people from out of town!

[suburbia]

Originally Posted by speedog

Holy crap, if you're afraid of the Motel Village area then you've got issues that you need help with. Nothing sketchy about that area at all.

Originally Posted by Calgarian

No way, there is nothing more sketchy than people from out of town!

I was just giving Jimby some company ...

Originally Posted by Jimby

Very scary shit in the barrens of the NW! Guns, hoodies, and pepper spray!
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I wanted to try the Indian restaurant at the Aloft but I no longer feel safe in the NW.

Do you guys have him on ignore? Perhaps you didn't see his drama.

[holhm22]

Originally Posted by Jimby

The Aloft Hotel has been robbed twice in 2 days! Very scary shit in the barrens of the NW! Guns, hoodies, and pepper spray!
http://globalnews.ca/news/1697515/ca...e-in-two-days/

I wanted to try the Indian restaurant at the Aloft but I no longer feel safe in the NW.

So just because one area of the NW might be unsafe makes you prejudge all of the NW to be unsafe? Wow. I live in the NW and it's the safest quadrant in the city. Even motel village is safe from my experience.

[Rusty van Reddick]

My brother in law is serving a 104 month sentence for bank robbery at the prison in Michigan City, Indiana.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by holhm22

So just because one area of the NW might be unsafe makes you prejudge all of the NW to be unsafe? Wow. I live in the NW and it's the safest quadrant in the city. Even motel village is safe from my experience.

You're new here.

[J-D]

Originally Posted by suburbia

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...-men-1.2852800

How stupid can you get...

Sounds like one of the suspects has Balfour Der as his lawyer so I'd imagine his family has some moola.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by J-D

How stupid can you get...

Sounds like one of the suspects has Balfour Der as his lawyer so I'd imagine his family has some moola.

They published their names in another outlet, maybe the Herald, so I poked around facebook like I always do when I see names, and if the ones I found are the same as the ones in the article, yes, definitely money there. Bottle service types with expensive taste.

[holhm22]

Originally Posted by Rusty van Reddick

You're new here.

I was browsing forums and decided to look at this one if you mean I am new by that.

[Ramsayfarian]

Originally Posted by Rusty van Reddick

They published their names in another outlet, maybe the Herald, so I poked around facebook like I always do when I see names, and if the ones I found are the same as the ones in the article, yes, definitely money there. Bottle service types with expensive taste.

Probably rich suburban kids whose parents gave them money and material goods instead of love and attention. I suspect their defense will be that they did it to feed their prescription drug addiction.

[speedog]

Originally Posted by suburbia

I was just giving Jimby some company ...

Do you guys have him on ignore? Perhaps you didn't see his drama.

Don't have anyone on ignore - it just that you make yourself an easier target. Jimby shows himself as being sort of special by his statement as well.

As far as sketchy parts in Calgary, I don't find there are any or at least compared to what there was in Calgary some 25-30 years ago and certainly compared to other large cities I've been in. Yeah, you might need to mind your own business a bit more at certain times in certain parts of Calgary but Motel Village - c'mon folks, let's get real here.

[Jimby]

Isn't Motel Village where the good citizens of the NW get their hookers and blow so they don't have to get scared driving downtown?

[Ramsayfarian]

Originally Posted by Jimby

Isn't Motel Village where the good citizens of the NW get their hookers and blow so they don't have to get scared driving downtown?

They used to but the internet has made driving for those things obsolete. Now you don't even have to leave your safe room, they come to you.

[suburbia]

Downtown bust
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...pons-1.2860585

According to a statement from ALERT, one of the residences, an apartment in Mission, was being used as a cocaine conversion lab to cook cocaine into crack. A hydraulic cocaine press was seized from the apartment along with other evidence of drug trafficking.

In another location, an apartment on 17th Avenue, investigators found a.357 Magnum revolver with the serial number defaced. Ammunition and other weapons, including a collapsible baton, brass knuckles and body armour were seized.

ALERT also seized cash and cars with more than $30,000 in cash proceeds of crime and two luxury model SUVs now being submitted to the province’s civil forfeiture office.

The couple were arrested at a downtown condominium. Of the 51 charges, most are related to drugs, but include weapons offences, proceeds of crime and breach of recognizance.
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cocaine.
methamphetamine.
heroin.
GHB.
Fentanyl.
cannabis resin.
Phenacetin.

And more details in the Herald:
http://calgaryherald.com/news/crime/...0000-drug-bust

• 500 block of 19 Avenue S.W.
• 1500 block of 17th Avenue S.W.
• 1000 block of 6th Avenue S.W.

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Schiavetta added that most of the business took place in Calgary’s inner city, “and in the possession of a handgun. Obviously it’s very concerning to public safety.”

That's two for the East Beltline / Lower Mount Royal area and one for the West End of the core.

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/550...509888f0b66129

[Rusty van Reddick]

The two arrestees:

https://www.facebook.com/taylor.zanoni

https://www.facebook.com/kayla.wright.948?fref=ts

Meth and crack dealers shouldn't have facebook pages with almost no privacy control but they're busy people as you can see. Having a lab in an apartment building doesn't seem like the smartest thing.

[suburbia]

Originally Posted by Rusty van Reddick

Having a lab in an apartment building doesn't seem like the smartest thing.

They were simply set-up where the demand was.

[flipstah]

Originally Posted by Rusty van Reddick

The two arrestees:

https://www.facebook.com/taylor.zanoni

https://www.facebook.com/kayla.wright.948?fref=ts

Meth and crack dealers shouldn't have facebook pages with almost no privacy control but they're busy people as you can see. Having a lab in an apartment building doesn't seem like the smartest thing.

If you're planning to be a criminal, you should be incognito. No social media!

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by speedog

Don't have anyone on ignore - it just that you make yourself an easier target. Jimby shows himself as being sort of special by his statement as well.

As far as sketchy parts in Calgary, I don't find there are any or at least compared to what there was in Calgary some 25-30 years ago and certainly compared to other large cities I've been in. Yeah, you might need to mind your own business a bit more at certain times in certain parts of Calgary but Motel Village - c'mon folks, let's get real here.

Jimby was obviously mocking Suburbia's ridiculous anti-urban banter and not making a serious point about the NW being dangerous.

[suburbia]

Originally Posted by Calgarian

Jimby was obviously mocking Suburbia's ridiculous anti-urban banter and not making a serious point about the NW being dangerous.

Actually, it was I that was mocking Jimby's fear of the NW inner city.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by suburbia

They were simply set-up where the demand was.

Then they should have rented a detached hovel somewhere. The abundance of grow-ops in the suburbs suggests that some people get it. This was just incompetent beyond description which is of course why they were caught and corralled at three separate apartments. If you want to run a DRUG LAB you don't do it in a fucking apartment building!