I don't think it's bullshit. I think the keyword is grossed 20K a month. What's that, a few pounds a month? If he only had 9 stacks on hand, he's not pulling in a serious cut. With a consistent local source around a good sized high school it isn't unbelievable at all.

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If the teen only had $9,000, does that mean he only dealt for less than two weeks?
No, this story is just a press release for the police department, which always inflates drug figures to make them noteworthy.
If you added up how much every drug bust in the U.S. is worth according to police, we'd most likely be able to pay off every loan, war, default credit rating and still have money to colonize Mars.
No, this is shoddy journalism.

Reporter: "What happened?"
Police: "This happened."
Reporter: "Ok, thanks! I'll type it up."

"Drug dealers don't sell drugs. Drug dealers offer drugs. Drugs sell themselves."

Again, no. The term "gross" doesn't take into account expenses (and in this case, I doubt it even includes cost of goods sold, because seeds don't cost much). Grossing 20K a month doesn't even mean that you are ever necessarily holding 20K. That is, it doesn't factor in that he has to pay his supplier, and cut in his distributors. That is, they are giving him credit for the full street value of all the product that went through his hands, even though he's certainly only keeping a fraction of it.

Assume a pound retails at 5K. That means he's flipping 4 pounds a month (which doesn't sound too insane to me). Of that 5K, he could easily be making only 5 or 10% after expenses. Which would mean that if he didn't spend any of it, or run into any other unexpected expenses (e.g. robbery), he could have taken a year or so to earn 9k, and still have been "grossing" 20k a month. Yes, it's to make the figures sound big, but it isn't necessarily technically wrong. The kid would never say it that way though. He was just slangin' quaps.


>> ^MrFisk:

If the teen only had $9,000, does that mean he only dealt for less than two weeks?
No, this story is just a press release for the police department, which always inflates drug figures to make them noteworthy.
If you added up how much every drug bust in the U.S. is worth according to police, we'd most likely be able to pay off every loan, war, default credit rating and still have money to colonize Mars.
No, this is shoddy journalism.
Reporter: "What happened?"
Police: "This happened."
Reporter: "Ok, thanks! I'll type it up."