(Suspected) Drug Activity At 3020 6th Street N. (Photo One)

Source of photo not revealed at this time

I'm going to begin posting pictures of what appears to be drug and prostitution activity associated with 3020 6th Street North until the police and politicians finally DO SOMETHING about this blatant crack house in the heart of the multi-jillion dollar "eco-village" project...

How will those piles of tax dollars be well spent if a crack house is allowed to be smack dab in the middle of eco-topia and mess it up? Yes, there are crack houses "all over" North Minneapolis--as a police officer cynically pointed out to me yesterday, while taking a report about my two slashed tires and a broken window, when I brought up 3020 6th St. N. and said we could really use more police attention paid to that particular address.

Yes, THERE ARE CRACK HOUSES ALL OVER NORTH MINNEAPOLIS but this one is sitting in the middle of a multi-million dollar revitalization project which is supposed to be one of the keys to turning the whole area around. So why is it allowed to continue to thrive and do business openly?

I have some surveillance photos recently released to me--the source of these photos WILL NOT be revealed--and more surveillance photos will follow. I will say this much: the photos are actually stills from videotapes. The videotapes are in the hands of the police.

Exposing what is happening at 3020 6th St. N. and demanding attention has become increasingly urgent. In the last day, I can see the (apparent) dealers going up to the door of 3020 6th St. N. now appear to be 15 or 16 years old.

Yes, the police did something...they did it about a month ago, when there were a handful of arrests at the property for keeping a disorderly house, and one for drug paraphernalia. (That would be Contessa, whose own landlord calls her a prostitute, and whose dealings out in the street right in front of little children are painfully obvious, obvious enough that a truck driver lost his job for hanging out with Contessa while in possession of a company vehicle) But this hasn't stopped the (suspected) drug activity at the house. The activity slowed down for a while--there were changes, modifications, what seemed to be security precautions--but now the activity is going full bore once again and, for the first time, minors appear to be involved.

On the basis of those relatively-recent arrests, certain activities at 3020 6th St. N. can reasonably be said to be "suspected drug activity." Persons coming to the house for the space of a few minutes, then walking outside while gripping their hand to the crotch of their pants can certainly be said to be involved with SUSPECTED DRUG DEALS. Persons getting into cars after a few minutes in the house and looking eagerly at the slightly-yellow contents of small plastic baggies are SUSPECTED DRUG DEALS. So pictures of these SUSPECTED DRUG DEALINGS at 3020 6th Street North will be posted here until the police and politicians DO SOMETHING.

A crack house is allowed to thrive, even in the heart of the multi-million dollar eco-village revitalization project. That is the reality in North Minneapolis. The only way to change that reality is to expose it and demand police attention to the problem, not to hide behind the "four talking points" of how great North Minneapolis is because it has, oh my word, (EXPLETIVE) PARKS FOR RECREATION.

So what's going on in this picture: the woman on the left emerged from the truck with one of her breasts exposed and hanging out, paying no attention to her state of undress, but seemingly upset with the other persons she was with, snapping at them. The bag gripped in her hand seemed very important. It changed hands a few times. In fact, after a police car drove right by, la-dee-da, one time, and did not return...the woman in the middle got out of the truck with the bag and quickly walked into the front door of 3020 6th St. N.

Some kind of transaction took place out in the street, with the passenger of a silver car. A baggie was gripped in a hand, plainly visable. At one point, something pill-sized and held in the palm of the hand was LICKED. (In fact, the name of these photographic attachments, when they arrived, was "licker1" and "licker2.")

The lick produced a SMILE.

That's good (expletive).

If only these were images of rather unique and shocking events. However, this is the EVERY DAY REALITY on the 3000 block of 6th Street N., the heart of the eco-village, and the (apparent) drug transactions are spilling out of 3020 6th St. N.

By the time anybody calls 911, the transaction is over. By the time police arrive, the transaction is not only over, but another transaction has been initiated and completed, as well.

Yes, things are bad on other blocks. So send me the pictures and tell me the stories of the other blocks, and that stuff will end up on www.johnnynorthside.com, as well.

We are not small, weak, and unheard. The internet gives us a voice and the power to change our neighborhood, to take it back from crack heads and thugs.