Crack House

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An old, abandoned or burnt-out building often in US inner-cities where drug dealers and users buy, sell, produce and use illicit drugs, including, but not limited to, crack cocaine
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This is the moment police used electric saws to bust their way into a suspected crack house as a huge series of raids across Merseyside and Cheshire took place this morning.
Hundreds of police make dozens of arrests in gang crime raids across Merseyside; Crack houses shut down as suspected drug dealers among those targeted
He said dealers and the people behind crack houses should "look over their shoulders" as the operation gathered momentum.
COPS DECLARE WAR ON BRUM DRUG DEALERS
Since August last year, the neighbourhood policing team has successfully applied for the closure of three crack houses, including a house in Durham Road in August 2008, and houses in Tithe Barn Road and Wrensfield Road in November 2008.
CRACKDOWN ON DEALERS; 18 arrests, narcotics seized and drugs dens closed
Officers working in partnership with Wrexham Borough County Council also obtained a closure order on a crack house in Y Wern, Wrexham.
WALES: Crack houses closed down
Hardy, 25, was arrested in London in November 2006, 12 months after police closed down the crack houses, while his partners in crime were already behind bars.
Crack house dealer jailed
Existing laws used to close crack houses and other drug dens will be the model for a new power to cover any property - including houses or business premises.
PM sets out 'action plan' to deal with yobs
Karen Briggs, 40, claimed she injected her 16-year-old daughter Emma to stop her going to crack houses.
Grandkid of Johnny on heroin
The -massive operation followed three months of intelligence gathering to identify crack houses and illegal gun owners.
1,000 cops in guns swoop
But suppose the creator of Ghettopoly--a game saturated with racist stereotypes of malt-liquor swigging "playas" competing to build crack houses using the proceeds gained by committing street crimes--was black.
To get respect, we must have self-respect
We have $500,000 homes, rooming houses, crack houses and homeless people."
Home time and island time: novelist Pearl Cleage finds inspiration just outside her window in Southwest Atlanta, while Paule Marshall has twice drawn on a long ago trip to Grenada
From the Chicago Tribune: "A new board game called Ghettopoly in which players try to amass stolen property and crack houses is selling briskly despite criticism that it mocks poverty and misfortune in the African American community.
Let's play stereotype
Joe Biden (D-Del.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) crafted a bill making the promoters criminally liable for drug use in much the same way that people who own crack houses are.
The agony of ecstasy: how a suburban party diversion is becoming a dangerous street drug

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