NEW kind of neighborhood watch

[Horse with no Name]

This story is slanted to Mexican Cartels, however, it casually mentions domestic dealers--but not in the same tone.
Moral of the story?? Watch your neighbor AND report back to the government on them!
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/02/03/mexican-cartels-taking-over-north-texas-homes/

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But, if you take a much closer look at some middle-to-upper class North Texas neighborhoods, you may see a slight difference in some homes. The windows are sealed off with shutters that never open or dark-tinted windows. There is a mysterious silence that lurks around the home. What’s behind the closed doors of these house? No one would ever suspect- except maybe Ed Fox, who heads up the Volunteers on Patrol Program for the Prestonwood West Neighborhood.

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“It not only took this one down, but about three others,” says Fox as he looks a former house that sold drugs. In the last two-years, Fox has alerted law enforcement to suspicious activity that’s taken down several houses for growing, manufacturing or selling drugs.

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Besides weapons, bullet proof vests and silencers, he shows us picture after picture of what he’s seized. It’s cocaine, ecstasy, ice, thousands of pounds of marijuana and hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug profits. The pictures have all been taken after raids of middle-to-upper class North Texas homes. Adamcik says the diving economy drove the Mexican cartel here. He says they are buying up the foreclosed houses and then hiding inside neighborhoods where no one suspects drug activity.

The Constable says, “It’s too easy to buy these houses.” But they’re not all Mexican cartels, Adamcik has helped shut down many domestic operations as well. Pictures show the work schedules and duty assignments that hung on the walls of three North Dallas houses for three years. One local organization was harvesting marijuana in three houses. The investigators show us a “harvest schedule” from 2005-to-2008. Law enforcement estimates this was a $3.2 million business run by a seven person ring.