by Travis Mateer
Is the title of this post a bit silly to possibly get your attention? Sure. Am I going to make a serious point that utilizes a massive amount of speculation? Also sure. I can multitask like a mo-fo these days, out of necessity, so in addition to this main blog, I feel a resurrection of one3twenty might also be coming soon.
The question I’m raising about residency for drug traffickers, especially ones getting credit for being so massive over the past year, is because of THIS boastful judicial victory (emphasis mine):
A pair of Missoula residents who were accused of working together to distribute more than 100,000 fentanyl pills and pounds of meth in the community admitted to charges on Friday, December 20.
U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said in a news release that Taylor Gale Penny, 35, and Joey Lee Forward, 34, each pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
Later in the article, there’s this (emphasis mine):
Confidential sources stated that Penny and Forward were the biggest dealers in Missoula, according to the news release.
Why am I zeroing in Taylor Penny’s role in this BIG drug bust? Maybe because I wrote about her arrest all the way back in September, after seeing her dad talk about her situation on Zoom meeting. Her dad, by the way, is from Pasco, Washington, which has ALSO been a subject of interest to me.
When the incentive is money, the University system in Montana has VERY specific requirements (PDF) for being a resident.
With this in mind, and with the possibility that Taylor Penny is more Tri-Cities than Zoom Town, what would be the incentive for calling her a MISSOULA resident? Not only that, but one who is doing LOTS of drug dealing in Missoula? Could there be value in controlling the narrative by controlling the PERCEIVED scope of drug interplay along I-90, which was a topic that ALSO just got a puff piece, which I brought attention to?
I don’t know, but something doesn’t smell right to me, like how Penny was kept in jail while her co-conspirator got released (emphasis mine):
Penny and Forward face a mandatory minimum of 10 years to life in prison, a $10 million fine and at least five years of supervised release.
Penny was detained pending further proceedings while Forward was released pending further proceedings.
Do you think this drug trafficking mastermind gets high on her own supply? Since Taylor Penny was arrested back when Missoula County still released mugshots, you can get a sense of drug use by the photo. I’ll say this correlates with what her own father described about his daughter’s drug use.
Another part of the conversation I saw with Penny’s father included his claims that stolen property flows from Missoula to Pasco to be fenced. So, while he hear about the drugs, other forms of crime that go along with drug abuse do NOT make headlines, but they are definitely a part of the trafficking food-chain.
Another part of the trafficking food-chain is death by over-dose. Normally, dead drug addicts don’t have value, since dead drug addicts don’t buy drugs, BUT, if dead drug addicts are getting PURPOSEFULLY overdosed, and people in that community know it, and they know those kind of deaths NEVER get treated as suspicious, well, maybe we have kind of serial killing that’s simply a part of the drug trafficking business model.
Does that sound like wild speculation, or a savvy business move to protect supply lines for a lucrative product?
I was thinking of incentives a few weeks ago when I heard the story James Scott, a trouble maker in Missouri serving 20 years to life for allegedly sabotaging a levy during the great Midwest flood of ’93. The critical look at Scott’s case points out the fact an act of God, like a flood, meant the town of Quincy would NOT be able to make insurance claims…BUT if someone trouble maker sabotaged a levy, well…
Among those who testified against James Scott was Norman Haerr, then president of the Fabius River Drainage District[11] and the largest owner of land on the Missouri side of the river directly affected by the flood. According to a Vice News documentary, Haerr received an insurance payout for damages caused to his land, although he did not have flood insurance. Since the flood was determined to have been caused by vandalism, rather than a natural disaster, Haerr was able to collect on his homeowner’s insurance. Haerr did not disclose his financial interest in Scott’s conviction at his trial.
Do I have a wild imagination? Yes, I’m a creative writer by degree, a citizen journalist by calling, and a real PAIN IN THE ASS to the people who don’t understand my resolve to keep going, regardless of the barriers I keep encountering.
If you would like to give me an early Christmas gift (thank you, you consistent contributors out there!), then Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) is one way to do it. Any little bit helps.
Thanks for reading, and stay tuned as I disclose some OLD TESTAMENT synchronicities I’m investigating regarding the lost tribes of Israel, the Anti-Christ, and the timeline we’re after I did NOT die when the bookcase crashed on the spot where I usually would have slept at 2am.
