PFT: Nick Kaczur had 202 OxyContin pills when he was arrested in April

[WoodysGirl]

KACZUR HAD 202 PILLS

Posted by Mike Florio on July 19, 2008, 8:11 p.m.

When he was arrested in April for possession of OxyContin, Patriots offensive lineman Nick Kaczur was possessing 202 of the pills, according to the Boston Globe.

The arrest was made in New York and the pills were made in Canada, but Kaczur claimed he bought the pills in Boston from a drug dealer with the decidedly un-drug dealer name of “Danny.”

Kaczur provided the following handwritten confession: “I was coming from Canada, where I was visting my family for the weekend. A trooper asked me if I had anything on me, which I said no. Then he checked the pocket on my sweater, where he found 202 pills of Oxycontin.”

Basically, he bought 202 Canadian-made OxyContin pills in Boston, smuggled them into Canada, and then smuggled them back into the United States.

Amazingly, Kaczur was charged only with misdemeanor drug possession, and not with the far more problematic “possession with intent to distribute.”

So either police were persuaded that Kaczur intended to take all the pills himself, or Kaczur got a pass.

For some reason, we’ve got a feeling it was the latter.


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[BourbonBalz]

If this had been one of our players, they'd already have been suspended and depicted as a criminal. Not with the Pats though. Double standard me thinks.

 

[theebs]

I am suprised the nys troopers who arrested him didnt give him a hard time, or harder I should say.

 

[Gaede]

haha, Kaczur's from Brantford, and knowing Brantford boys as I do, this news doesn't surprise me one bit

 

[Teague31]

how the hell do you only get charged with a misd. when you have over 200 pills? i agree with the others, if had been a cowboy it would have been the lead story on the nightly news.

 

[Vertigo_17]

It will be interesting to see what Roger has to say about this. I guess minimum of 4 games...

 

[big dog cowboy]

It will be interesting to see what Roger has to say about this. I guess minimum of 4 games...

He is a Patriot so Goodell will lean on the conservative side.

 

[AsthmaField]

how the hell do you only get charged with a misd. when you have over 200 pills? i agree with the others, if had been a cowboy it would have been the lead story on the nightly news.

Dude, the people who are addicted to prescription pain killers take huge amounts of those things. I knew a guy who was taking 60 10 mg. Lortabs per day. (yes, 600 mg. per day... which is enough to kill a normal person several times over.) 202 pills would only have lasted him a little over 3 days. The tolerance he built up was epic.

If Kaczur had a serious addiction to oxycontin, then 202 pills would probably only last him a week or so. I'm sure the authorities knew that and so only charged him with the lesser crime.

Also, I'm sure Nick didn't need the $$ he could get from selling them, which wouldn't be a huge sum or anything. If he's addicted... those pills would mean WAY more to him than some money. They are very difficult to come by.

 

[dooomsday]

Dude, the people who are addicted to prescription pain killers take huge amounts of those things. I knew a guy who was taking 60 10 mg. Lortabs per day. (yes, 600 mg. per day... which is enough to kill a normal person several times over.) 202 pills would only have lasted him a little over 3 days. The tolerance he built up was epic.

If Kaczur had a serious addiction to oxycontin, then 202 pills would probably only last him a week or so. I'm sure the authorities knew that and so only charged him with the lesser crime.

Also, I'm sure Nick didn't need the $$ he could get from selling them, which wouldn't be a huge sum or anything. If he's addicted... those pills would mean WAY more to him than some money. They are very difficult to come by.

No doubt. And if your addicted you hoard them up when you can. We dont known the strength either. Could be a up to a weeks worth for a junkie.

Check this out re: Former player Jason Peter. He would take 60 vicoden (ie Farve Pills ) at a swallow! Now, they arent as strong but its they are similar drugs.


Ex-Panther Jason Peter Details Use of Crack, Vicodin, Ambien, Vodka, Prostitutes

Posted Jun 9th 2008 8:08AM by Michael David Smith
After an All-American career at Nebraska, defensive lineman Jason Peter was the Carolina Panthers' first-round draft pick in 1998. But he failed in the NFL, starting just 20 games and leaving the league for good after four seasons.

Now he's written a book that details the drug abuse that derailed his career.



He says he would down 60 Vicodin and 20 sleeping pills with a bottle of vodka. Peter King of SI.com, who read an advance copy of the book, writes:

Vicodin. Ambien. Cocaine. Crack. Heroin. GHB, the date-rape drug. Lots of others I've never heard of. He's not sure if he's been in rehab six or seven times. He's blown most of the $6.5 million Carolina paid him over a disappointing, injury-filled NFL career with the Panthers. Nights and weeks with prostitutes so numerous ... well, so numerous that his Madame at a high-rolling Manhattan brothel ran out of girls for him.​

Jason Peter now says he's amazed he's still alive. Reading King's account of the book, it is amazing.

 

[The Panch]

Oh my! But I thought the Patsies could do no wrong!

 

[AsthmaField]

Ex-Panther Jason Peter Details Use of Crack, Vicodin, Ambien, Vodka, Prostitutes

When I first glanced at your post, I thought that picture was of Jason Peter, and I was like, "Dayum! That drug addiction really takes a physical toll!" :laugh2:

 

[CrazyCowboy]

wow....that should be a 4 game min suspension

 

[dooomsday]

When I first glanced at your post, I thought that picture was of Jason Peter, and I was like, "Dayum! That drug addiction really takes a physical toll!" :laugh2:

LOL! It did!

Before:

After:

 

[superpunk]

The next part of this story involves him and Rush Limbaugh on a romantic mountain retreat.

I am totally for cerial.

 

[Sarge]

I am suprised the nys troopers who arrested him didnt give him a hard time, or harder I should say.

Me too - I didn't realize this until today, but he was pulled over in my hometown (Whitesboro)....those troopers are nasty.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

He got a misdemeanor because he cooperated with the law.

That being said, those who get addicted to painkillers take an absurd amount of them. So it wouldn't surprise me if he those pills were just for himself. But, usually the law doesn't think that way unless they get something in return, like turning state's evidence.





YAKUZA

 

[theebs]

Me too - I didn't realize this until today, but he was pulled over in my hometown (Whitesboro)....those troopers are nasty.

Yeah I noticed that right away this spring, he was pulled over on the thruway in whitsetown. He must have been just short of exit 32!

The lead singer from the barenaked ladies was arrested in Fayetville on genessee street last week also.

Central ny cops getting to meet some big timers for a change I guess!