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Two Rochester men suspected of dealing cocaine in Batavia

By Howard B. Owens

A pair of Rochester men were allegedly found in possession of $3,000 in cocaine in Batavia yesterday and charged with two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance.

The Local Drug Task Force identified the men as possible cocaine dealers and investigators received a search warrant for their car.

Taken into custody were Marcial S. Borgos, 61, of Bonesteel Street, and Jose A. Torres, 52, of Ernst Street.

Task force members as well as uniformed deputies participated in the search of the car.

Investigators allegedly found more than an ounce of cocaine.

K-9 "Pharaoh" participated in the search.

Borgos and Torres were jailed without bail.

jason reese

What's new? Batavia, New York is a Hub for this criminal activity. Batavia is centered between Buffalo and Rochester, New York. Heroine. Cocaine Bust, this week. Remember when pot was the big drug? It's only getting worse.

Mar 24, 2011, 4:06pm Permalink
George Richardson

Bring back and legalize homegrown herb, for personal enjoyment, it will please God and me. It's nature's medicine for the funk that ails us all. And we all hurt sometimes, these days more than ever. Pot is the tuning knob on a transitor radio with low batteries. It helps you find the sweet spot in the cosmos just when all seems lost.

Mar 24, 2011, 5:53pm Permalink
Doug Yeomans

George, I say legalize everything. Smoking weed is far different than snorting cocaine or shooting heroin but my feeling are such that if you're stupid enough to snort coke or chip away at the H, you get what you deserve. I don't think it's the government's business to protect people from themselves. The only thing that accomplishes is to make criminals out of people with problems.

The 31 year old man found in the dumpster on Monroe ave in Rochester, I know his aunt. He got caught up in things, unfortunately, but he had also gone to several hospitals looking for help and all turned him away saying there's nothing they could do.

It's kind of odd how society is willing to jail people for possession (at a high monetary cost) instead of trying to help people BEFORE they turn to crime to support an addiction.

Do I believe in personal responsibility? Hell yes. Is the person addicted to drugs responsible for getting their self into trouble? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: It's complicated. Should we try to help someone by putting them into a mandatory 60 day dry out, treatment facility BEFORE sending them off to jail? I think it's a better solution to a problem that is quite obviously never going to go away.

I believe that legalizing would knock the black market right out of business. Alcohol prohibition never worked and prohibition also created some of the worst drug gangs that ever existed in this country. The problem was solved by repealing prohibition. We no longer put people into prison for consuming alcohol (unless they break the law by driving drunk, of course).

BTW, Canada loved prohibition in America. Alcohol was still legal there and distilleries sprung up all along their southern border to feed the states with what they wanted. Mexico and Canada are still doing that now. They're filling orders for what people want because it's profitable.

I believe that the reason for drugs remaining illegal is based in politics and greed. Our police and drug task forces use it as a tool to amass their numbers. Drugs are illegal not to protect anyone, but to be profited from along with the drug cartels. By keeping drugs illegal and by telling the public that they're illegal for their own safety, police forces can seize money, assets and jack up your taxes to fuel their forces. It's really the ultimate shakedown.

Doing drugs is a choice. They're not difficult to get, obviously. How many drug deliveries happen successfully compared to how many drug busts happen? The success numbers must outweigh the number of busts or it simply wouldn't be worth the time and effort of drug dealers and users to continue doing business.

People are being screwed from both ends, literally. Anyone selling hard drugs to you isn't your friend but at the same time I don't believe the police have the right to bust you for being stupid enough to use hard drugs.

The reality is that if you don't use drugs now, you wouldn't use them if they were legalized. It's already a choice. I stand by my statement when I say that people don't make choices based on legality. A drug addict never gave a hoot that the drug was illegal. They based their decision to try drugs based on their personality and circumstances. Nobody ever said "weed is illegal so that's why I never tried it." BULL!

Lawyers, judges, cops, bankers, doctors..etc...many of them have all tried one drug or another and occasionally partake or are addicted to a drug. They're only human, after all. How many of you personally know a cop or a judge that regularly stops at a local watering hole or goes home to tip half a bottle of scotch down their throat at the end of the day? I think it makes them a hypocrite to use a drug and then bust someone else for using "their" drug of choice.

The war on drugs isn't working and never has so I think a different approach should be considered, that's all I'm getting at. Rant over..

Mar 25, 2011, 6:01am Permalink
Frank Bartholomew

Doug, you made some exellent points, and the bottom line with the war on drugs, well, quite frankly, is a lost cause. Police, task forces, dea, they make just enough arrests to justify their existance.
As long as there is big money involved in the drug trade, it won't be going away anytime soon. I don't care how much money the govt. throws at it.
Take a look at the jobs involved with illegal drugs,drug counselors, more police, rehabs, prison gaurds,jail gaurds, probation officers, parole officers, YOU GET THE IDEA. So many people would lose their cushy jobs if drugs were legalized, which is why it will never happen.

Mar 25, 2011, 6:40am Permalink
Doug Yeomans

One thing I forgot to point out is that seized assets and cash don't get returned to society in a helping manner. Nobody gets put through a mandatory rehab as a result of those seizures. All of those seized assets are used to build a larger police force or drug task force. Without drug users, those agencies would have no reason to exist. They have a vested interest in keeping the drug supply available. Seized assets are literally blood money and they should be returned to society which is who paid for them in the first place. They don't belong to the police.

Mar 25, 2011, 7:00am Permalink
jonathan bell

its sad to see this but on the same aspect shouldnt it be suspected? half way between 2 major cities. in a county whos public works budget is 1/8 the amount it should be if i was a drug dealer batavia would be heaven and your best bet of not getting caught. no matter what the fine men and woman of the police department do there is only so much time in a day and alot of ground to be covered by a limited number of personel

Mar 27, 2011, 12:37am Permalink

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