Defining Moments: A Suburban Father's Journey Into His Son's Oxy Addiction by Bradley V. DeHaven

Author:Bradley V. DeHaven
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: true crime, drug abuse, memoir, california, addict, prescription drug abuse, addicted child, addicted son, addiction and recovery, addiction recovery, oxycontin, addiction to pain pills, addiction memoir, drug bust, bradley v dehaven, brad dehaven, placer county
Publisher: Bradley V. DeHaven

Chapter 16: The Law

Brandon had been set up by another drug dealer. This person had called our son from a wired phone while Brandon was with his mother— that so-called errand was a drug deal.

He left his mother to straighten out his bills while he went to do a drug deal. Unbelievable.

He was supposed to bring drugs to a hotel room, but because Brandon owed everybody money, his credit to be fronted drugs was not good, so he went to the drug deal without the drugs, planning to get the money first then go back for them. When Brandon knocked on the hotel room door, it opened and an army of police officers darting in from all directions greeted him. They wrestled him to the ground, cuffed him and began their search of him and his vehicle and, later, his house. Brandon had been recorded agreeing to the deal and he had paraphernalia in his possession. Unfortunately for the police, they chose to drop the net on him when he had hit bottom and couldn’t afford the drugs they hoped they would catch him with.

During his 23-hour period in jail, the narcotics officers shook him down for everything he was worth. The process of getting one drug dealer to set up the next is as old as the trade itself (my own brother had done it over 35 years before). During the interrogation, which included the usual scare tactics, the cops showed him a great deal of information they had collected on him. Even though they didn’t have the bust they wanted, they had him verbally agreeing to provide drugs and several people willing to testify that Brandon had provided them with Oxy and other drugs. They had been monitoring him for some time and had ample surveillance to make up for the lack of drugs at his actual bust. Brandon had been dealing Oxy for the past few years and the police had been looking to get him. Brandon had at one time been moving thousands of these tiny green prescription pain pills through California, making nighttime drives to Los Angeles and back to buy huge quantities to supply the Sacramento area.

They were charging him with three felonies and he was facing five plus years in prison. Faced with the charges, Brandon waved his attorney rights and talked too much— a strung out drug addict who just got popped. The interrogation lasted nearly twenty hours; although, to Brandon, it felt like three days. Faced with the abundance of evidence and the thought of five years in prison, Brandon broke and agreed to bust a dealer named Steve. The interesting thing about Steve was that much of the information the officers had on Brandon was from Steve.

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