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Unusual Drug Bust Outside Of Boston No Laughing Matter

By Altman & Altman

It was not downtown Boston, but downtown Northampton that hosted a concert featuring a jam band known as the Disco Biscuits, resulting in fourteen arrests. The somewhat unusual scene apparently led suspects laughing all the way to meeting their attorneys at Northhampton District Court where they were advised of their charges. The nature of the charges? Drugs and juvenile in possession of alcohol. But there was a twist in this one. Perhaps inspired by the noteworthy performance of the late Heath Ledger as The Joker in 2008?s blockbuster film ?The Dark Knight?, some of those arrested were in possession of tanks containing nitrous oxide. You may have heard of it as ?laughing gas?. Police found that the suspects had set up metal cylinders of nitrous oxide in various locations, including one police discovered in alley off King Street right next to the theater...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on January 21, 2009 (boomark / email).