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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In the case of a crack house, for example, the CARE Committee will discuss the characteristics of the activity, and the severity of the disruption to the neighborhood.
City and county help addicts with CARE
Serologic screening of 21 persons at that crack house detected eight new cases of early latent syphilis.
Alternative case-finding methods in a crack-related syphilis epidemic - Philadelphia
ON GUARD: Police outside the crack house in Archer Close, Kirkdale Picture: GAVIN TRAFFORD
Crack house boarded up
CLEVELAND Police and Middlesbrough Council have joined forces to obtain a crack house closure order against a landlady and one of her properties.
CRACK HOUSE CLOSED; Order granted against owner
AN alleged crack house has been closed for three months after a string of complaints from neighbours.
CRACK HOUSE CRACKDOWN; Neighbours' complaints lead to police closing down flat
New crack house closure orders, educational activities for young people and poster competitions will all be part of the campaign.
DRUGS FIGHT
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
That's like urging folks to visit a crack house just because others would shop there.
PUBLIC FORUM
NOTORIOUS soccer hooligan Paul Dodd has been arrested in a police raid on a crack house.
No 1 soccer yob held in drugs raid
The Blade star has been accused of having sex with Lanise Pettis, 33, in a crack house in Chicago and fathering her son, now three.
Cops hunt movie star
A model of the law's intended application was the February 1990 closure of a crack house operated by a Cuban gang in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood, which resulted in the arrest of 28 members of the infamous Marielitos crime ring.
Seizure disorder: Seattle's "drug nuisance abatement" program is a menace to law-abiding property owners
Initially, a crack house may consist of several friends meeting periodically to smoke cocaine.
Smoking them out; how to close down a crack house in your neighborhood

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