Decatur, Ala. | Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Police: Drug lord charged
Suspect accused of being head of criminal organization
By Ben Montgomery
A city official believes the Thursday arrest of a suspected drug lord could end many of northwest Decatur’s drug problems. Decatur police said Leon Goodwin, 49, of 203 Valley Park Drive, was … More »
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That place has been a drug hang out for over10 yrs what was they waiting on people to get old and die and forget about it! its a white block house everybody go look!

If people have been complaining on it as much as it's printed, Why did it take 2 years to gather evidence? Photos can be taken on a day to day to prove drug activity. And yes, Hannah, this is part of the 90 percent of Little detroiters.

Isn't the Drug Force allowed to confiscate any material things purchased with the proceed of drug sales? Cars, houses, money, weapons, etc. Let them out and they go back home to do it all over again. Why stop a profitacle business like selling drugs. Looks like it was easy to make bail. One of their buyers probably couldn't get along too well with them being in jail.

$12,500 bail for a drug lord? Pocket change...

Thank the judges they are probably on the payroll too, the police work long hard hours and dangerous cases and the judges slap them on the wrists and let them back out into our communities to wreak more problems and damage. They are all over our neighborhood nearly on every street and multiple houses. they deal under the street lights at night , most of them they have shot out. I too like Mr Anders have complained and told multiple agencies. they have removed one house but we are riddled with petty crime , burglaries and thefts of our property almost daily if not more than daily. The police are doing a good job , but the Judges turn them back loose in short order to come right back and commit more crimes to pay their lawyers and crooked judges to get them off so they can do it again and commit even worse crimes. The thugs and drug dealers have more rights than the hard working middle class people who inhabit this neighborhood. They rob and steal and burglarize our property and people here its awful , like living in gangland Chicago - you ave to have a gun on you to even mow your yard or take out the trash. Seems everyday we hear gunfire from these trash laden streets and Apartments only a few hundred feet from our doors. They arrest a few of them but they still prowl and roam the streets over here like they own it all. We and many others here have spent our lives working paying for a decent place to live and now the City of Decatur has turned in to a hell hole of drugs and thugs and trash and will not do anything to get rid of them.

Big question - If he has a Violent Criminal Record why was he released back onto the streets of Decatur so quickly with such small bail ? So he can kill one of us ? maybe he will go break into the judges houses and terrorize them maybe that would change their behavior towards criminals like this. They are killing people one dose at a time with their bad drugs , does this not register? they also are promoting and increasing crimes all over because the junkies that use their drugs are out doing god knows what to who to get the money for another fix - so why turn this trash back loose on our community ?

omg they have 200000 dollars bonds for meth makers which is mostly for their own use what is up with this bond ?stop drugs?hes already out lol

12,500 Bond........LOL.....For crack cocaine distribution?....A guy in Lawrence County had bail of 1 million dollars for Marijuana....way to go Decatur.

The judges in Decatur are trying to make it easier for their buddies, the lawyers, who make a killing in tax-payer dollares for EACH and EVERY crime that's committed in Decatur. They get paid to defend these criminals and YOU and I pay their lawyers because they have no LEGAL income to pay them with. Illegal income doesn't count, I guess. What a racket!! Crooked judges, crooked lawyers. By the way, it's the lawyers who run for office as judges, presidents and representatives. We are just the poor saps who have to support the whole corrupt system. It won't last forever, though. WE WILL GET OUR COUNTRY BACK ONE DAY!! If not during our lifetime, they can enjoy the FIRES OF HELL.

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