Against the Grain by Freeze

Author:Freeze
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345509963
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

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2000

Ms. Pricilla and Ms. Wendy both pulled into the parking lot of Lexington Market at the same time. “I see you got that new Lincoln you wanted, girl,” Ms. Wendy said to Ms. Pricilla.

“Yeah, girl, it’s nice on the inside, too. Leather and wood grain. I’ll take you for a ride when we get off work.” They walked into the market on the Eutaw Street side, got something to eat, and came out on the Paca Street side. They crossed the street and got into a waiting van that had eight other elderly women who greeted the two women as the van took them to work. This was the same routine that they had followed for the past five years. The van took them to a house on Scott Street in South Baltimore, which sat on the corner. They all went down to the basement where they went through a secret entrance cut into the wall that led to the house next door. The same thing was done in that house, which led to the house next to that one and so on. Every house on that side of the block had the same secret entrance in case the cops came with a search warrant for the house on the corner. No one would ever be there besides the people that lived there. Each family was getting five hundred dollars a week to use their house. The old women would split up in pairs per house, where armed guards were waiting. There they would cut the heroin with quinine and morphine base. The dope had to be cut a few times to keep the fiends from OD’ing. For this job, the old women were paid a hundred dollars a day. There were also a few young girls that got paid seventy-five dollars a day to bag the heroin in thousands and thousands of glassine envelopes that were pre-stamped this is it. The envelopes were packaged in bundles of twenty-five ten-dollar bags. The bundles were put in bags of five hundred. Each bag was put in a backpack and taken to the last house on the block, where several young boys, ages twelve to fourteen, would be waiting for them. The young boys would go out the back door and into the alley where they had their bikes waiting and take the backpacks to the McDonald’s on Washington Blvd., where couriers waited for them. Then the young boys would return to the same house and wait on the next delivery. They were each paid three hundred and fifty dollars a week. This was more than cool with them. They just wanted to go to the mall every Saturday.

Once the couriers got the backpacks, they would take them to different dope spots throughout the city. Each courier was paid a thousand dollars a week. All spot managers generally made thirty percent of everything they sold that week and they were responsible for paying the lookouts and runners out of their pockets. Top Lieutenants made $15,000 a week.

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