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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.
July 19th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Hey, Nick’s a big guy. I could see him needing 202 pills…
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
202 pills is not a lot for an addict. I’d believe that was personal.
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I’m a Pats fan, but they should have cut his ass when it first happened.
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I fully expect the Pats to be the team to beat this year, however off the field they have taken a significant step, if not two, backwards.
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Any word on whether he was bringing back Chris Berman some duh-duh-duh’s?
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Yeah, obviously he intended to distribute them. It’s doubtful that a 315 pound offensive lineman takes painkillers on a daily basis or anything like that, or that he might take more than the recommended dosage. 202 pills of OxyContin, that would last a guy like Kaczur…like, forever!
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
if you’re in pain, 202 oxycontins aren’t that many. I’d call that a couple months worth.
yeah, i like pills.
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Oxy is redneck heroin. in Boston, Danny fits. It’s always white guys who get arrested for robbing banks to pay for an oxy habit.
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July 19th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
People addicted to OC don’t tend to want to sell them or give them away - especially when you make as much money as he does and don’t need what selling a few will get you. The last I heard, they sold for a $1 per gram.
I know about OC because I was prescribed them after back surgery back when they were believed to be the new wonder drug i.e. a pain pill will little to no addictive properties. Turns out that they’re highly addictive. They’re sythetic heroin. I got hooked after taking only 3 pills and my prescription was 120 80mg pills. Many people can never get off the stuff and would never get rid of them unless they had a reliable source where they’re POSITIVE they can get them at any time.
These are the nastiest of prescription drugs you can ever imagine. Question any doctor who wants to give them to you. I found out what it really means when they say “you take them in the beginning to feel really good but later you have to take them just to feel normal”.
I was able to get off only because my doctor told me it was time to get off of them so I got one last refill and had a month to ween myself off of them. Cold turkey would be impossible. I went away for a long weekend after those first three and forgot them. That’s how I know I was hooked already.
I can believe that they weren’t for resale.
Nasty, nasty stuff.
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July 19th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Let me guess, the pills were for Bob Kraft so he can live with the pain of having a head coach who got caught cheating.
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July 19th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
misdemeanor drug possession *
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July 19th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Anyone who can do math can see that he was buying $400k a year ($3800 “every few days” equals $8k a week equals $400k or so a year)–think he was using that all on his own? If so, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Nice to see Roger sweep this one under the rug for Big Bob as well.
About time for a story on this Florio, especially after your 10 or so on Marshawn Lynch’s non-event traffic violation. This is a FELONY–a much bigger deal and you’ve been silent on this until now.
Seems to me like all the Pats* fans kabitzing has had the intended effect of making their team immune from criticism…..
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July 19th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Jimmy Smith, you have alot to say like your cokehead namesake.
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July 19th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Hhow is it that Rodney Harrison and Nick Kaczur have not been hit with Federal indictments?
Both broke Federal laws in their DRUG cases. Harrison broke Federal law having HGH shipped across state lines, and Kaczur is an international drug smuggler.
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July 19th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Doesn’t the doseage enter into whether 202 pills is a lot or not?
And, correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Kazur cooperate with authorities on his source? Is that “getting a pass” or just common sense by the authorities who know its pointless to bust a guy for 202 pills when they can get a bigger fish?
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July 19th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
So what is the term for someone addicted to OC? He’s not a “pot-Head”…so..
Well, anyway, looks like a case of R.H.I.P. as far as the Pats are concerned.
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July 19th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Wow, the average person gets stopped at the border with 202 illegal pills, and they are going to to get VERY familiar with their cellmate Bubba!!!
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July 19th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Hey Mr. Mike,
Seems like a lotta pills. But if he was taking 10 a day, that’s a 20 day supply… Seven a day??? Less than a 30 day supply…
Usually when we go to the pharmacy for anything, we get like a 30 day supply.
Even though he bought them from “Danny” (the other Danny, not the Danny at the pharmacy! LOL), that amounts to personal use quantities.
F2B
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July 19th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I said it before, i’ll say it again, this loser is a drug dealer and a snitch. i don’t really care that he carries a recording device (don’t they all)(i mean pat’s) i care more about the 202 pills that certainly would be more than one “cheater” could sustian.
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July 19th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Let’s see the diff in how Johnny Jolly is treated with an “over-supply” of codeine vs. The Golden Boy’s “personal use” amount of two hundred and freakin’ two Oxy pills. :rolleyes:
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July 19th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
He got a pass because he rolled over on his supplier. Not that hard to see.
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July 19th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
@ db3300
You are slightly mistaken on this drug. First you don’t sell pills by the gram, and a dollar a gram a pill, haha might need to see your dealer. Yes, there made of an opium devirative. He’s probably getting the 160’s which are only in Canada, if he dealt i’d say he could get 80 dollars a pill, conservative.
That being said he it is probably doing for his job. Painkillers (see Favre, Brett) make sense considering the abuse of this athlete’s body on a daily basis. This is some real stuff though you heard legend of people with broken legs feeling a utopian feeling and trying to use there leg normally. He must be responsibilty as the pills are time-released, and very often fatalty with alcohol, as I know of a friend who passed this way.
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July 19th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
oxycontin are little miracles, that’s what they are.
y’all act like he got caught with 10,000, or killed a guy for ‘em.
if a month supply of pain pills is a felony, no wonder this country is f***ed.
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July 19th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Why is 202 pills intent to distribute? I am on Oxycodone for a couple burst discs in my back. I go to the doc every two months, and he writes a script for 240. So 202 pills is well within the limits for personal use. Especially if you have to go to Canada to get them.
Still, as a football fan first and a Pats fan second, I think that they should get rid of him. I understand the guy is in pain, but you should resort to legal means to get them.
Would a player be banned if he got these legally for pain? Florio, I think some investigation (you know, true journalistic investigation) is in order here. Why would he obtain these illegally? Does the NFL ban this substance? If so that might explain why he did this (not that it excuses the action, but it might just expose an NFL rule that is a bit ridiculous. The NFL should allow players to be under a proper doctor’s care and not be forced to do things like this to take care of pain). If it isn’t a banned substance, then indeed the NFL and the Pats should come down on this guy. There is no excuse for illegal drug taking in the NFL. Any other big company would have fired him, yes?
Can you check on this, and see if an NFL player could get this script legally without facing a ban? I would like to know if there is a possibility that he did it so that there wouldn’t be a paper trail that could lead to a banning if he got a legal script for it.
ANY NE player should KNOW they need to be extra careful when in NY. NY is just aching to hurt the Pats any way they can. This was stupid. If you want to smuggle something in, and you are rich, pay a buddy to do it for you! I am joking, kind of. You shouldn’t do it at all. But if you are going to do it, why be that stupid about it and get your hands dirty like that? Geesh. Give me that kind of money. I won’t be stupid like that! Now all I need is my health back, and some football talent so I can prove that!
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July 20th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Living in the Philadelphia area, I am more than familiar with the horrible effects of OC’s, having a cousin pass away from it and several high school classmates. People get hooked on this stuff and then resort to heroin, because it is essentially the same thing but way more expensive than heroin.
Some of the addicts around here will pay up to $100 for one 80mg pill. The withdrawl on it’s own can kill you, something normally only associated with alcohol and benzo’s like xanax, valium, kolonopin, etc.
For someone who uses these pills daily, an 80mg pill is probably the smallest amount that will even do anything on it’s own, and even then I’ve known people who needed to crush up 4 80’s at a time and snort them to avoid the time-release.
I don’t care how big he is, I highly doubt this guy would be able to stand any more than 640mg a day and still be able to even resemble a functioning member of society, and that’s if someone is a pretty hard addict. I honestly doubt he’d be able to stand that much and still be able to perform on the field at any sort of degree befitting even and AFL team, so for all these people defending him saying “it’s probably only a month’s supply and he needs it because he’s a big NFL lineman who needs painkillers” quit making excuses. Fan or not, this guy is obviously an addict and needs help, not a slap on the wrist and a “don’t do that again” while meanwhile guys like Terell Owens, who despite his antics is the picture of physical fitness, have to take a drug test every time they stand up over what amounted to a communications error.
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