Seaside Tweeker
I love hunting homeless tweekers (just kidding). We had a late 20′s female we had to find in Seaside this morning and were hoping to get her early. She needed to be booked in San Luis Obispo county jail and it’s about 140 miles from Seaside. So it’s an hour from San Jose to Seaside another 2 hours to San Luis Obispo. This makes for a long day.
We heard she was staying in a typical tweeker hotel in Seaside but when we arrived she was tipped off and already checked out. Off to the races. We knew she did not have a car so we started checking the local shopping centers, liquor stores and gas stations, looking for her begging for money or cigarettes. This went on for 2 hours until we received a call from an informant who told us the girl would be at a park around 1pm.
This sucks, we have to wait until 1:00 and I’m already irritated that we missed her at the hotel. Seaside was cold, I’m tired, and now I have to wait for someone that I’m giving a free ride to SLO. Luckily, she shows right at 1:00. She’s sitting in the park on the ground with her head resting between her knees. Dressed in jeans and a pullover sweater, you can tell that she’s already had a tough life. So, I walked right up to her with my cuffs in hand and she immediately starts crying. Great, this is all I need.
Before I can tell her she’s under arrest she goes into the typical rant about how were screwing up her life, why today, why are you doing this to me. Yada, yada, yada. Why didn’t you just go to court? I actually started to feel kinda sorry for her, though. She, her boyfriend and 16 month old are basically living on the street. She was arrested for burglary and for writing bad checks, 2 separate cases.
It was obvious to me that she wasn’t a bad kid but because she liked to talk I didn’t want to venture into her past, I just wanted to take a nap. It’s so easy for us all to whine about our lives but when you see how bad things can really get you appreciate what you have.
So I lighten up on her and try to get her to relax. What I did learn was that she was from Colorado and 2 kids from a previous relationship who were put up for adoption and now she has a new kid with a new boyfriend. Poor kid. This is the part about drugs that a lot of people don’t understand. Yea, health wise, drugs are bad but most people don’t get a chance to see the social impact. I can only imagine how her parents must feel. Then again maybe their tweekers too.
I just want to get back to home in San Jose. We finally get her to SLO and get her booked pretty quickly. Wow, I get to go home again. No bologna sandwich or Sanka for me, lol. I would love to tell you about how we screwed with a freind during the 3 hour ride home. It involved sending him text messages from an anonymous number. Maybe another time. It was funny as hell. That’s what I do when we are doing a lot of surveillance or on a long drive. My partner drives and I screw with people. It passes the time and makes the day much easier. It may also be a way for me to avoid thinking about the people we arrest.
