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Meth bust
Saturday, October 11, 2008
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A Napa woman’s traffic violation late Wednesday evening led to a series of events which landed her in jail.

Police stopped the woman at Ethel Porter and Carol drives, and a vehicle search yielded a small amount of methamphetamine and a pipe, Napa Police Sgt. John Kostelac said.
Connie Jean Mitzel of Napa, 55, was arrested on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine and was booked at the county jail.
10 comment(s)

Yetiyet wrote on Oct 11, 2008 7:25 AM:

" excellent tip of the iceberg arrest, she was coming from or going to a source in the area, Napa PD keep up the great investigative work, innocent lives are at stake. "

merri wrote on Oct 11, 2008 9:02 AM:

" WOW a gram was removed from the street! PLEASE work on the dealers and makers. I don't mean to say this person should not have been busted but to what end. She will be on the street in 48 hours with a new pipe and some tasty crack. Wate of time coppers "

14obama wrote on Oct 11, 2008 9:20 AM:

" In one way or another,meth will do its toll on ya ! Get help ! Narcotics Annonymous is where its at ! "

wonderdog wrote on Oct 11, 2008 11:38 AM:

" good going NPD now we need the help of the public too. lets get these tweeks and dealers out of this town so our children don't have to grow up around this stuff. lets go after the dealers next. your going down tweekers. "

where_is_the_checkpoint wrote on Oct 11, 2008 3:45 PM:

" 'Innocent lives are at stake?!' Please, give me a break. If Napa PD has time to worry about a small amount of methamphetamine, then they're either working on the wrong thing, or crime is low enough that the city can lay off some of them to save money. Police salaries and benefits aren't cheap. If the city keeps wasting police resources on stupid stuff like this, it's time to rethink how much money we need to be spending on police. We're probably spending too much. "

napagirl1970 wrote on Oct 11, 2008 4:21 PM:

" I bet she's a really cutie at 55 still doing Meth? yuck! "

injoy wrote on Oct 11, 2008 9:26 PM:

" Well if NPD wants to bust small time drug users/dealers..all they have to do is look across the street from Vintage High School. Every morning and afternoon there is drug dealing going on at the little park on Solomon Street. I see it EVERY DAY when I pickup my kids. It makes me sick. The kids go over there after school, get loaded and then walk back to school and get on the bus. I wonder if parents realize that school gets out at 3pm, but the buses don't leave school until 3:30. The little angels have a half hour to get "baked" before heading home to parents who would never consider drug testing their kids or searching their backpacks. There, I said my piece.

Oh and yes, I have notified the school MANY times. "

sith'ari wrote on Oct 11, 2008 10:18 PM:

" Speaking from experience, because I used to BE one of those kids buying/selling/using at Solomon park, I can honestly say that I never even had to worry about being caught by PD or anything like that, and that thought alone frightens me now. I have siblings that go to Vintage, a brother who is the same age as I was when I began 'experimenting.' Police need to get plugged into the street, understand the mentalities of these kids, and go after the people who set them all into motion: the dealers. While a simple possession charge might seem like a huge dent in the endless war on crime/drugs for Napa, everyone knows that this 55-year old tweaker is just going to think it was bad luck that she got pulled over and resume what she was doing. I would have done the same. What does that say when there's a higher liklihood that someone will be pulled over for a driving error rather than someone who deals drugs near a school? "

napa gurl wrote on Oct 12, 2008 5:06 AM:

" Wonderdog are you serious...?
Where ever you go there are going to be people who use drugs. you can move all over the US, hell even to another country and you are going to be in the same situation. I dont see the point of arresting the users when they are the victims and there are still the big timers out there. i have lived in Napa my whole life and iv been a lot of places, trust me Napa isnt bad. Why dont you go check out L.A. or the Ventura County area. "

cellsitegod wrote on Oct 14, 2008 6:44 AM:

" Hey where_is_the_checkpoint,
At least they are doing something other than eating doughnuts.
You never know what a small bust can lead to.
Tweekers are know to "roll over" on each other.
Thats police work. "

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