Sunday, March 21, 2010

Drug buyer beaten up by dealer after paying for crack - with Monopoly money

Maybe he should have thrown in Park Place, too.
A man discovered bleeding from the head at a routine traffic stop in Witchita, Kansas, told police he was the victim of an angry drug dealer - upset that he paid for a hundred dollars worth of crack cocaine using Monopoly money weeks before, St. Louis' KSDK NewsChannel 5 reported.
"The man from whom he had bought the drugs was upset and invited him over to his house, and upon arrival struck him in the head several times with a handgun, and other people jumped into the fray," Gordon Bassham, a spokesman for the police department, told NBC.
The man's injuries were not life-threatening, and he has since stopped cooperating, but Witchita police are still determined to find the dealer and put him in the big house - without passing go and collecting $200.
"That was not a get out-of-jail-free card," Bassham told NBC.


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