Cleveland PD Busts Bootlegging Business
Bootlegging alcohol- the act of buying and then reselling on the streets for profit- is making a comeback in Cleveland.
"Bootlegging has increased as the hispanic population has increased in Bradley County," says Detective Brian Smith.
Working on a tip, Cleveland Police raided an apartment building on Central Avenue Wednesday Night.
Investigators confiscated a small inventory of vodka and canadian whiskey. The bottles of booze were re-selling on the streets.
"We've been receiving complaints from the citizens that several residents are bootlegging illegal liquor," says Smith. "Unstamped liquor. Thespecial investigations unit went over there last night and did some search of some apartments."
{Smith says the rise in the underground alcohol trade corresponds with the rise of immigration. Illegals he says are a bootleggers best customer.
"Bootlegging has become popular again because the hispanic population doesn't have proper Identification. They can't go into stores or go into chattanooga and purchase liquor and beer. So bootlegging is on the increase. So that's why we took steps to seize some of it in Cleveland," says Smith.
Police have received numerous complaints about the complex. Residents claim drugs, alcohol, even prostitution is a problem.
Of course, bootlegging is not limited to this part of Cleveland. Smith says the department is actively working to curb the resale of alcohol all over town.
mind your own bus.
thats what is wrong with ameica today is we have to many people wanting a pat on the back from law enforcement people need to mind their own bus. and stay out of others.
Like you have any LEGAL
Like you have any LEGAL business to mind. They pay me good money to get in your ILLEGAL business, and that's just what I intend to keep doing.
How many in Bradley County are legally in AMERICA?
Immigration has direct massive negative consequences on today's and yesterdays economy. How many new arrivals in Bradley County are legally entered the United States through the proper channels?
Are you now living from paycheck to paycheck, wondering how your going to feed your family, making your mortgage payment.
You need to be aware of how much Uncle Sam is secretly skimming off your taxes and diverting into government freebies
for immigrants and illegal foreign nationals.
This is a document that should disturb you, because the globalist open border, free traders do not want you to see it. This is an thoroughly researched analysis of immigration costs, that the hierarchy of the U.S. government and special interests groups do not want you to read.
Now you can read the disturbing details in the new 70-page document called “The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration” by Edwin S. Rubenstein (www.eagleforum.org/sources). A Manhattan Institute adjunct academic with a mile-long scholarly resume, he has been doing financial analysis ever since he directed the studies of government waste for the Grace Commission of 1984.
Did you know that taxpayers are supporting immigrants to the tune of $9.000 each. That means your subsidizing each family of four with $36.000.
More than 37 million immigrants in the United States, both legal and illegal, cost the federal government more than $346 billion last year, twice as much as the nation's fiscal deficit, according to a report released yesterday. The loss estimates, the report said, included $100 billion in federal taxes lost "from the reduction of native incomes caused by immigrant workers." He also stated that even programs that are not usually associated with immigration, he said, have actually added financial burdens to the taxpayers.
Our students are short-changed in overcrowded classrooms, because teachers must spend more time with illegal immigrant children.
The financial burden immigrants inflict on education starts with the 3.8 million K-12 students enrolled in more-expensive classes for the non-English-speaking. When we add up the costs of hiring specialized teachers, training regular teachers, student identification and assessment, and administration costs, the total amounts to an estimated $1,030 per pupil, or $3.9 billion. Of the 48.4 million public school children, pre-K through 12th grade, 9.2 million or 19 percent are immigrants or the children of immigrants. In the next few years, immigration will account for almost all the increase in public school spending.
Look at the $1.5 billion cost of incarcerating 267,000 criminal aliens in federal prisons. That's not the worst of it; prison capacity is limited, so 80,000 to 100,000 other criminal aliens have been prematurely released to prowl our streets. Then their is the expenditure to hunt down 676,847 fugitive warrants by (ICE) and special agents. Actual cost for incarcerating illegal foreign nationals since 2001, over $1,407.798.965 dollars.
The Manhattan Institute report includes all sorts of costs that pundits conveniently ignore, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit. EITC gives an average cash payment of $1,700 per year to 25 percent of immigrant households.
The emergency medical treatment given 'gratis' to illegal immigrants is another enormous cost, causing many border state hospitals and emergency rooms to close. Emergency means any complaint from morning sickness to athlete’s foot, gunshot wounds to AIDS.Even after some restrictions were imposed in 1996, 24.2 percent of immigrant households still receive Medicaid, whereas the figure for native-born Americans is 14.8 percent.The stiudy calculates that Hispanics account for 19.2 percent of Medicaid enrollment, while they are 13.7 percent of the U.S. population.
This is just the tip of the iceberg about these outrageous costs.
Please go to (www.eagleforum.org/sources) and know what your taxes are paying for...?
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Bootlegging
If everyone around here was not so narrow minded and still trying to live back in the day.... we would have alcohol sales here and there would be no bootlegging! Good grief, get over it and get with the times. The bootlegging has nothing to do with immigrants.