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As it turned out, Leeann Chin really didn’t have a restaurant in the Northtown Mall or anywhere close to it Which was good news because it blew Richard Nye’s alibi all to hell and bad news because it was already late afternoon and I hadn’t eaten lunch I hadchicken with fried rice and had to settle for a chili dog with fries on the side at the Hot Dogs ‘R Us stand
Afterward I did a tour of the local video stores There were six within two miles of theto reveal whether or not Richard Nye or Debbie Miller had an account with them until I clai fil the copies to other video stores Suddenly each store was happy--and relieved--to report that neither of theain inforator, I told myself I couldn’t wait to tell G K
There were police cars with decals plastered on the doors parked all over the place: County of Anoka, City of Anoka, Coon Rapids, Blaine, Fridley, Colu Lake Park, Ramsey, the Minnesota Bureau of Cri them were other vehicles, arish: WCCO, KSTP, KMSP, FOX NEWS, KARE-11 Soally
It tookEast Main Street and another five to walk back toward the courthouse coathered in front, I thought, Either Tuse a press conference or the circus is early this year
Turned out it was Tuse in front of the entrance, his jacket off, his tie loosely knotted, his sleeves rolled up, the wind in his hair, and s him were uniforanizations, including Lieutenant John Weiner They all seeed around thehts and the operators of both Still photographers from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, St Paul Pioneer Press, and Associated Press stood or knelt next to them TV reporters and representatives from WCCOAM and Minnesota Public Radio, each of them armed with a microphone, were scattered between the ca not to block the camera lenses Print reporters, their notebooks opened and pens poised, stood in back Common folk, like me, watched from a distance
I saw Genevieve Bonalay She wavedon?" I asked
"Shhh," she hissed
We listened to Tusee of the drug -tere to the co across the country, fueled by small rural labs and super labs in the Southwest and Mexico He spoke about how he, personally, was dedicating the resources of his office to finding and punishing those that would "bring this poison into Anoka County, ould use it to poison our children" It took hiet to the point, and the ly antsy--just think of all the editing they’d have to do
Finally, he announced what the media had been enticed there to hear All of the law enforceanizations present, under his direction, of course, had just that day executed the largest, " in the history of Anoka County--Tuseman see resulted in the arrest of "eighty-seven individuals involved in the manufacture and distribution of methamphetamine, also known as crystal anizations coues who did the coordinating--on suspected hout the county The arrests wereearly in thewas the result of an intensive fourteen-ation by his office and the Anoka County Sheriff’s Department He said that the arrests were carried out without incident Not a single shot had been fired; not a single officer was injured What’s more, Tuseman believed that these arrests would ave up fellow dealers and addicts in an effort to gain lenient treatreat day for Anoka County, and he issued a warning to anyone ould bring crystal meth into his jurisdiction: "There is nowhere you can hide"