Crime & Safety
Family Feud Leads Police to Odd Haul of Drugs
A considerable pharmacopeia comes to light as police investigate a fight between a man and his girlfriend's father, who had no qualms turning them both in for drugs.
Hash wax. Regular hashish. Banisteriopsis caapi. Psilocybin and LSD. Lots of marijuana. Vyvanse and Oxycodone. Something called 2CI. Ecstasy. Amphetamines....
And various plant materials, liquids, semi-solids and other substances that police detectives haven't yet been able to identify.
Oh, and a large marijuana growing tent in the basement.
All that and more, in various quantities and forms, led to the arrests June 9 of a Wauwatosa woman and her live-in boyfriend after he got in a fight with her father, who called police and told them if they searched the two they would find drugs.
The owner of a home in the 4000 block of 98th Street phoned police at about 9 a.m. to say that his daughter's boyfriend had beaten him up. Police found the couple in her father's car about 500 feet from the house, and two officers took charge of them.
Meanwhile, another officer went to the house and spoke to the father, who said that he had seen the two taking drugs to the car. He specifically said they would find heroin – one of the few drugs they didn't find, in the end.
At the car, officers had to take the boyfriend to the ground when he resisted being handcuffed, and the young woman refused to consent to a search of the car.
However, it wasn't her car, it was her father's, and he did give consent. In the trunk was half an ounce of marijuana, more than an ounce of psilocybin mushrooms and a large bong.
In the house, which the woman's father also gave consent to search, they found everything else noted.
Among the highlights: Large jars of the leaves of Banisteriopsis caapi, which according to various internet sources is a South American jungle vine used as a "plant teacher" – one that is combined with other plants and substances to enhance a psychotropic effect.
In and of itself, B. caapi is not a scheduled controlled substance in the United States, although it is in many countries, and officers merely noted its presence; no charges resulted from its possession.
A different kind of hoarding
The young woman would tell police in a statement that she and her boyfriend liked to gather all their drugs together in a large metal security box they called their "vault," and just stare at the collection. She said it got them excited just to see how many drugs they had.
She also said they like to start their day by getting high on THC as soon as they woke up – "wake and bake," she called it.
And that was what led to the argument.
The morning of June 9, she said, they wanted to "bake" with the hash wax they'd bought the day before. (As hashish is a concentrated form of marijuana, hash wax is a further purified and concentrated form of hashish.)
Her boyfriend couldn't find it, and he suspected her father had found and confiscated it. It amounted to about 5 grams worth $100, and he was mad. He was also right. Her father had found it in his freezer and hidden it, even though he had no idea what it was.
The suspect confronted his girlfriend's father, all agreed, and began shouting at him and then punched him several times. His daughter tried to intervene and at length was able to collect some drugs and get her boyfriend to leave with her.
Her father went to the garage and fetched a sledgehammer to wield in the driveway, hurrying them on their way.
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