The 10 million shots thing is, of course, based on anecdotal evidence about the stills that were busted. If they make X amount of liquor, then they must sell it, and if they sell it then it’s drunk, and  therefore ⦠I think that what happensâit certainly happens in Virginiaâis that only certain agents actually understand whatâs going on. I know that in Philadelphia, the enforcement focus is on the speakeasies and  the other things that happen there. They are far more interested in
the prostitution, the gambling, and the drugs, than they are the booze. To the point that they might dismiss its existence altogether. This mirrors what folks have told me about the priorities of the Virginia [Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control]. In Richmond, I hear, they would say that there is no moonshine problem in Virginia. If you talked to the Illegal Whiskey Task Force, of course, youâd get a different answer.

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A first wave of opposition is coming from operators of the Nativity School, a small, private school for middle-school-aged boys in the second floor of Camp Curtin YMCA, north of the Hudson Building.
“To have a halfway house next to a school is appalling,” said Jairee Counterman, Nativity’s executive director and principal.
Counterman, who has worked in prison ministry programs, stressed she understands the need and value of pre-release programs to help inmates, especially women, readjust to society.
“But there is no way a correctional facility for anyone, male or female, should be next to a school,” she said.
Counterman also said, in her view, that stretch of North Sixth Street is already burdened by more than its share of drug trafficking, prostitution and gunplay, making it a questionable area for the purpose of easing an ex-con’s re-entry.

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TRENTON — Two South Jersey residents were among 13 people arrested here on drug possession and other charges.
Denise Daddio, 43, of Burlington Township, was charged with three counts of drug and drug paraphernalia possession.
Sicklerville resident Dawayne Montgomery, 37, was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle.
The two were among 13 people arrested after Trenton police units executed a search warrant on Wednesday at a residence in the 200 block of Roebling Avenue.
Police had received numerous complaints about drug and prostitution activity at the house since October and made the arrests after several weeks of surveillance, officials said.

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Daughter of ex-mayoral candidate, 11 others are arrested in drug raid
TRENTON — The daughter of a former city mayoral candidate was among 12 people arrested in a raid on a suspected drug house Wednesday evening, police announced yesterday.
The house, on the 200 block of Roebling Avenue in the Chambersburg neighborhood, had been the subject of a number of complaints made to police and to South Ward Councilman George Muschal.
Police said they seized $900 worth of crack cocaine from the residence, plus quantities of heroin and prescription medicine.
Among those arrested was Denise Daddio, 43, the daughter of former mayoral candidate Patrick Daddio.
She has been picked up at least twice on prostitution charges, once in 2000 and once in 2002, during sting operations by undercover city police officers.

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A cop pulled Baczkowski over after observing Baczkowski crossing her black Ford Focus into the oncoming lane of travel, police said. The cop detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from the driver and Baczkowski subsequently failed a field sobriety test, cops said. The cop arrested Baczkowski, hauling her to police headquarters for processing. Cops said Baczkowski refused to provide a proper breath sample at the police station. Cops charged her with driving while intoxicated, failure to take breath test, failure to maintain lanes and failure to provide proof of insurance. police released Baczkowski to the custody of a friend.
TRENTON
* 13 Arrested in Drug Bust: The Trenton Police Department VICE Enforcement Unit and TAC Units executed a search warrant at a residence on the 200 block of Roebling Avenue, arresting 13 people in an operation took place after cops received numerous complaints concerning alleged illicit activities out of the residence, such as drug usage and prostitution.

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The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office has sought to pursue felony charges, so far with no plea bargain offer, on the two men who were arrested for allegedly running a Riverside brothel in November.
Manual Lopez-Garcia and Francisco Israel Gonzalez-Chavirria are currently charged with the felony of promoting prostitution in the third degree, a class D felony, when they were arrested by Southampton Town Police Street Crime Unit as the operators of an alleged brothel on Vail Avenue in Riverside.

According to New York State Penal Code, third degree promotion of a prostitute is defined as the following: when someone knowingly, “advances or profits from prostitution by managing, supervising, controlling or owning, either alone or in association with others, a house of prostitution or a prostitution business or enterprise involving prostitution activity by two or more prostitutes.”

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By CARL HESSLER Jr.Journal Register News Service
COURTHOUSE — A former Souderton man is headed to jail for giving marijuana to a teenage boy in exchange for sex.
Diondre “Drey” Zaire Watts, 21, formerly of East Chestnut Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court on Friday to 11 ½-to-23-months in the county jail, to be followed by five years’ probation, after he pleaded guilty to charges of promoting prostitution and corruption of a minor in connection with his contact with the boy between August 2008 and July 2009 at the Souderton apartment where he stayed.
The boy was between 15 and 16 at the time of the incidents, according to court papers, and Watts was 20.
“Although Mr. Watts himself is a young man, he was taking advantage of another man younger than him by encouraging him to engage in sexual activity in exchange for marijuana. It’s very disturbing,” said Assistant District Attorney Kate McGill-Magid, who sought jail time against Watts. “He was taking advantage of his age and his position of power over the boy and he was also encouraging him to use illicit drugs. I think jail time was absolutely warranted here and appropriate.”

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The pro-abortion crowd is filled with people who like to rationalize their position, and masking the horrors of abortion, with some intellectual claptrap about protecting the rights of the mother to “choose.”
That argument is simply wrong. Killing a baby is not a personal choice. Government has one legitimate responsibility and that is to protect the rights of its citizens. That duty is most important when it comes to those least able to protect their own rights, such as the elderly, the infirm, children, and, yes, the unborn.
Beyond that, people have not only a legal responsibility to protect their children, but a moral duty as well.
Yes, the right of a woman to her body is an important one and I defend that right. Individuals, not the state, are the proper owners of the body.
That is why things such as suicide, prostitution and drug use should be protected rights.

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Malia is also a defendant in a lawsuit filed by Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania, which alleges New Life Home Healthcare improperly billed the insurer for medications provided to two of New Life’s employees.
Mackiewicz’s lawsuit, filed by attorney Wayne Ely of Penndel, Pa., alleges Mackiewicz endured years of sexual harassment and verbal abuse at the hands of Malia, who routinely called her offensive and derogatory names.
According to the suit, Mackiewicz was employed from February 2007 to June 2009 as a personal assistant and property manager for New Life Home Care, Chapel Properties Inc. and Spectrum Inc., businesses that were owned in whole or part by Malia.
The suit alleges Malia frequently required Mackiewicz to go to bars with him, including one instance in February 2008 where he forced her to go to a strip club and witness him receive a lap dance from a stripper.

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EVEN in Philadelphia, with its 40,000 vacant properties and a quarter of its population living below the poverty line, the Kensington neighborhood still shocks. On a frigid afternoon, a prostitute lingers in the shadow of the elevated train tracks, waiting restlessly for customers. Husks of long-closed factories stand amid thigh-high winter wheat. Streams of garbage flow down the streets, as if both the people and the city government had agreed to forsake the effort of propriety.
In recent months, this neighborhood has also been terrorized by a killer who choked and raped his victims in the area’s ubiquitous abandoned houses and vacant lots. If only these deserted places could be charged as accomplices to the so-called Kensington Strangler’s three murders and two sexual assaults, and for aiding and abetting the drug use and prostitution that have caused so many of the neighborhood’s problems. But the empty lots with their discarded furniture and ghetto kudzu and the weather-beaten houses with boarded-up windows won’t be going anywhere soon.

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