From the New York Daily News:
They miss that old, crack-dealing grandma.
Theresa Anderson controlled the drug game for a dozen years on Buffalo’s East Side, presiding like a godmother over a pair of poor streets.
“I miss Theresa, I really do,” neighbor Debra Walker said. “I actually felt safer. Now my place has been broken into.”
Anderson, 58, bought up at least 10 houses in the crumbling neighborhoods along Swinburne and Deshler streets, and operated a bustling crack trade with the help of her many relatives.
Federal prosecutors said the family trampled rival dealers through violence and intimidation, but neighbors said organization also kept the area clean and safe for the people who lived there.
Neighbor Deanna Gresko said Anderson wasn’t a “gang-banger drug dealer who would threaten you.”
Paid lookouts and a loyal family workforce kept Anderson a step ahead of the cops until February 2012 when SWAT teams raided more than a dozen houses she and her family owned.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/neighbors-crack-dealing-granny-article-1.1477811#ixzz2h0vcvDMz
Ahh, yes, the family that deals together, stays together, along with the neighborhood.
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