Cops: Crack cocaine ring busted -- at sober house

Norwich police have arrested Khalil Hipps, 31, who stands accused of running a crack cocaine operation out of a sober house.

Police have arrested a Connecticut man accused of running a crack cocaine operation out of a sober house.

Police said they received several tips that Khalil Hipps, 31, of Norwich, was running a drug operation out of the Liberty House, a transitional sober house on Washington Street in Norwich, and selling drugs on the street. 

Hipps was arrested around 3 p.m. Tuesday, and police seized a small amount of crack cocaine packaged for street-level sales and $725, according to a news release from the department.

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Hipps was charged with sale of crack cocaine and was held on a $100,000 bond. He is scheduled to be in court on Wednesday and police said they expect to make more arrests.

Hipps was found guilty of possession of narcotics in 2008 and 2009, according to court records.

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This is not a news worthy story. Ms NBC will put anything up to bury real stories. Last week Obama's attorney admitted his birth certificate was a forgery. Also last week Libian militias attacks the Leader of the U N delagation with a bomb. And NBC gives us a story about a crack head with $700. Embarassing.

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#1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:49 AM EDT

Last week Obama's attorney admitted his birth certificate was a forgery.

Really? And just "where" did you get this info?

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#1.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:00 PM EDT

Sorry guys, those are NOT legitimate websites,

Again, you prove what is wrong with our American Education System.....

Here's some more of the fine journalism, these websites spew...

What is wrong with you?

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#1.3 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:10 PM EDT

That is just the kind of non-critical thinkers the GoP panders too.... they believe anything politically convenient and substantiate/fact check never.... if its negative about Obama they will believe it no matter how ridiculous it is.. GoP = beliefs before substantiated facts... these people have never picked up an official legislative document and read it or ever considered ideas about fixing the country.... to them the country will magically fix itself and the problems that came before Obama took office by removing him from office.... it doesn't matter that the other candidate has offered zero ideas on how to fix things or has pandered himself into a corner.

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#1.4 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:19 PM EDT

Strike 3, your in; for good. This is a career criminal who should not be put back on the streets anytime soon. We should be rehabilitating people on their first offense, or possibly second. It should be thorough and teach them a skill that is in demand. If they should return, they ought to be declared an animal and kept like one. Judges and juries should decide if rehabilitation is warranted and banish the ones that are to be punished from society permanently. Animals don't need entertainment or social interaction and should never leave their cages. The cost of keeping them this way would be much lower and help pay for the rehab of the ones who might benefit from it. Capital punishment is too expensive and can't be reversed in the event a person should be found innocent. Killing people is not an enterprise any state should be involved in anyway. Living like an animal, with no hope of being released, is the worst punishment I can think of.

    #1.5 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:23 PM EDT

    One survey said that 35% of republicans think Obama is the anti-Christ. Go figure, these people are so prejudiced they can't stand the idea of a black man being president. They will never quit. What we have to do is make sure they don't get control of the country. Bonehead and his buddies and even some democrats in congress are determined that a black man will have as little to show for his efforts as possible. If he doesn't get a congress that wants what is best for the American people this time around, he should resign his office in protest. That might overjoy his opponents but it might avoid another 4 years of gridlock politics.

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    #1.7 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:39 PM EDT
    • 1 vote
    #1.8 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:02 PM EDT

    Wait...Obama is black?...Holy Crap, why didn't anyone tell me?..next thing you'll tell me is that Hillary Clinton is a woman, pffft, like that will ever happen.

    • 5 votes
    #1.9 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:03 PM EDT

    How many presidents, while in office, have people demanded that they produce proof they are a US citizen?..10? 5? all?...how about NONE except Obama. You little closet racists are pathetic and grasping at straws.

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    #1.10 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:08 PM EDT

    How dare we require the president be an American or tell the truth. Damn Americans want everything. I notice you guys didn't dipute the facts just threw the race card and moved on. By the way, My exwife and son are "BLACK" I"m multi racial.

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    #1.11 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:21 PM EDT

    I also read that Mitt Romney is a hermaphrodite pedophile and that his grandfather, Sanchez Romney, crossed the border illegally from Canada in 1893. Not only that but his wife Ann was secretly a dominatrix for the hottest club in Boston, "Schaudenfreud" and has an eyeball growing where her clitoris should be.

    Gee...it really is that easy to spread bull@!$%#. Thanks fellas...think I might just start me up an e-mail chain, or possibly open my own website since NOTHING I print about anyone ever has to be true. Thanks Leroy and Leatherneck! Hope your syphilis is healing up nicely.

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    #1.12 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:28 PM EDT

    I think it would be pretty funny if New Jersey didn't allow Obama on the Ballot. Secretary of state gets to make that call. How many electoral votes does New Jersey have?

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    #1.13 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:28 PM EDT

    Of course, WINTERLAND, you could just check for your self. It all happened in a New Jersey courtroom and is public record. It was Obama's legal representation that spilled the beans.

      #1.14 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:31 PM EDT

      BTW Winterland all your talk about Clits, Hermaphrodites, Sex Clubs and pedophiles kind of shows us what you like.

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      #1.15 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:33 PM EDT

      "how dare we require the president be an American" Yeah, because it's not like our first presidents were English (As in born in colonies of England). I've gone out on a limb, yeah... but that's what makes the interwebz fun. And at least my fact is an accurate one.

        #1.16 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:41 PM EDT

        @leroy I hope that Tyler gets you. You totally went off topic and just stated some pure BS.

        This story was about some fool who sold drugs from a sober house. Not a great story, but definitely not worth your derailment.

          #1.17 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:44 PM EDT
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          News alert NBC. Some cows froze in cold weather. Better run that one all week

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          Reply#2 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:51 AM EDT

          NBC I stubbed my toe taking out the garbage. I want some headlines.

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          Reply#3 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:52 AM EDT

          Have to agree with you leroy they could find this story on any corner USA.

          • 2 votes
          Reply#4 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:53 AM EDT

          Tell me about your Panhead. What year what color? You should put a pic up.

            #4.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:46 PM EDT

            It's a Pan Shovel 55pan 76shovel borg and bec 6speed Evo ignition electric start, to old for a kicker any more. 55 frame chopped and raked 42 degrees 8 inch over girder. Camelion black with red and silver eagle on the neck. To dumb about computors to get it up. So to speak. It's looooooong leannnnnn and meannnnnn. Be Cool.

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            #4.2 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:35 PM EDT

            Awesome

              #4.3 - Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:55 AM EDT
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              As far as the cow story is concerned I think they want to blow that one out of proportion. Literaly, blow it out of proportion.

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              Reply#5 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:56 AM EDT

              This is so common and you have a captive customer base inside.........

                Reply#6 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:12 PM EDT

                once a drug dealer, always a drug dealer. lock him up forever, and don't mention it on the news. It's not newsworthy

                  Reply#7 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:20 PM EDT

                  ROFLMAO...our small community's halfway house had a full blown meth lab in a storage shed on the property. MmmmmmK. It did not make national news so why should this story? It's everywhere and the war on drugs~well you know...

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                  Reply#9 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:39 PM EDT

                  Get the "whale shark" and he is just a "tiny fish." But good job. Go after "whale shark."

                    Reply#10 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:04 PM EDT

                    Wars we never have, never will win, Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq2, Afghan, Drugs.

                      Reply#11 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:09 PM EDT

                      I agree with that . Legalize weed.

                        #11.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:37 PM EDT
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                        I live in a little Po-dunk town in the middle of nowhere and we have much bigger drug busts than that. Why bother?

                          Reply#12 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:23 PM EDT

                          They are running anything to avoid running negative things about barrack. They ran a 5 year old story today about mini van prices.

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                          #12.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:51 PM EDT
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                          leroy2112: Yep that's the left for you.

                          http://www.amazon.com/forum/barack%20obama?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx17XU95ZE3WLUZ&cdPage=1&cdThread=Tx30OF4QN3UK75R

                          Unless the left can say amazon is political then sorry...

                            Reply#13 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:31 PM EDT

                            Leatherneck, I'm assuming you are a Marine. Thank You. So, spread the news because it is obvious the media won't. I wonder what they have been threatened with.

                              #13.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:40 PM EDT

                              It was a woman that ruined Clinton too (actually he ruined himself). GO GIRL! Whiskey glass and a woman's a-- made a horse's a-- of me:) Thought you would like that one Leatherneck...CSGM USA.

                                #13.2 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:44 PM EDT

                                leroy2112=Leatherneck, I'm assuming you are a Marine. Yep. Semper FI

                                  #13.3 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:09 PM EDT

                                  So someone posts something on the Amazon forums, and then Amazon is obligated to back the statement?

                                  Even better yet, the post says the website reporting this is TeaPartyTribune.com (obviously quite the objective site), so now Amazon is apparently backing them as well.

                                  Now if you all will excuse me, I have to go post on every forum I can find that the IRS owes me eleventy jergigabillion dollars in back taxes. Since those sites will all have to support me in the claims I post, no matter how absurd, the IRS will be under enormous social pressure to make good on their obligation.

                                    #13.4 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:54 PM EDT
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                                    Funniest part of all. SHERIFF JOE was R I G H T .

                                      Reply#14 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:48 PM EDT

                                      YEP...

                                        #14.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:10 PM EDT
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                                        I bet he is a "social worker" too

                                          Reply#15 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:03 PM EDT
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