So Splinter had a different car every weekend. He never had more than nine or ten customers. Obviously some of them were selling off part of their purchases to their buddies. But Splinter had reduced the odds on getting caught as much as possible.
First, the buyers never saw him. Plus he was selling to college kids, mostly at Tulane, where there was not a lot of police heat, to say the least. Secondly, it was weed, for christsake, not heroin or crack. Lastly, it was small amounts. Amounts the DA’s office wouldn’t give a s**t about.
The DA’s office only accepted charges on fifty percent of the homicides that the cops referred to them, so they’re going to give a big goddamn about a tiny bit of weed? What would be your guess?
And if they did arrest any of these kids, the poor overworked as
