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Police arrested a Menlo Park couple allegedly selling crack cocaine out of their apartment near Menlo Park’s Willows neighborhood Tuesday (Jan. 19).

Marcus Lovelace, 26, was booked into San Mateo County jail on a variety of charges, including possession of cocaine base for sale and possession of an assault rifle, according to police. Police also arrested Danielle Filice, 27.

Filice wasn’t immediately charged because of medical problems that had to be addressed first, according to Sgt. Eric Cowans. Cowans said she would eventually be booked on the same charges as Lovelace.

In a raid on the apartment in the 500 block of Willow Road Tuesday afternoon, police found several ounces of crack cocaine, along with the assault rifle, Cowans said.

Lovelace was in the apartment when police arrived, and police officers staked out the parking lot until Filice returned to the apartment, Cowans said. Both were taken into custody “without incident.”

Cowans said the charges would most likely be transferred to federal court.

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  3. These type of issues and problems have a regional impact, and are worthy of coverage in a Palo Alto publication. The Willows neighborhood of Menlo Park is just across the creek from Palo Alto.

  5. Actually we are supporting relieve efforts to Haiti and have done for many years.
    Haiti has a corrupt regime, is a major transit point for cocaine transport to the US and Europe, and has the highest rates of AIDS and tuberculosis of most nations.
    Of particular concern is the rape of Haitian children by gangs often led by the police.

    Crack dealers in Menlo Park are a very different matter, they have choices, the MPPD is decent, treatment options are free and plentiful.
    If adults in the US want to expose themselves to AIDS and crack addiction that is their choice and Darwin rules, exposing innocent young people to AIDS and crack addiction should be a capital crime as it is in Singapore and elsewhere.

  6. “It is better to be thought of a fool, Than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”.,……..So Sharon,(a resident of midtown),..as I read more into your comment,it reveils something impunitive about your character,either your prejudice, or “BIAS”,…This problem is world wide including “Europe,. And Haiti is very supressed at this waking moment try praying for your enemy sometimes.

  7. Haiti has been an independent republic for 200yrs.

    The Dominican Republic, on the same island, has a robust economy.

    Same climate, same races, same island.
    Why is Haiti a failed state?
    Haitis problem is corruption.
    Ex president Aristede stole $100m and escaped to South Africa same with Papa Doc.

    If adults over 21yrs want infect themselves with AIDS and crack that is their choice.
    Law enforcements job is to protect the innocent.
    Social work has failed to deter these monsters, it is time for capital punishment for those who spread AIDS or crack addiction— no vector–no problem.

    In Haiti the US military will impose security through Martial Law– for a while — the best hope is for faith based charities to provide food, emergency medical care, water and sanitation.
    The Haitian government will have to impose quarantine to stop the spread of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria etc.
    The UN and NGO have wasted $Billions over the years, there have been 1000s of NGOs working in Haiti for many, many years and they have failed.
    Money was taken by the corruption.

    Senegal has offered land to fit Haitians who want to farm there– that is their best option.
    For the infected, the injured and the old faith based charities will help them live out the rest of their lives with some dignity.

    Anyone who has visited Haiti knows that it is an ecological, social and public health disaster.

    Why crack addicts in Menlo Park would want to emulate such a catastrophy is beyond our comprehension– all we can hope for is to stop the spread of the virus to the innocent.

  12. Sharon,

    That other town in another county happens to be right next door. This is a perfect example of how some Palo Altans see our neighbors. When it’s working together to stop HSR, we are one solid community. When it’s people getting shot and crack being sold, well they’re on their own because of a creek that seperates us. That way we get all the benefit without any obligation or accountability. What a deal!

  14. Well since Haiti was somehow bought up..

    It is no accident that Haiti is impoverished.

    When they led their slave revolt the entire USA/Europe was determined to make an example of them

    For more on Haiti see

    http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/517494/imf_to_haiti_freeze_public_wages?rel=emailNation

    The most salient point—it’s no accident that Haiti is the most impoverished country in the Western Hemisphere. They paid dearly for the slave uprising. (which gave the USA the Louisiana Purchase).

    “As historians have documented, the impoverishment of Haiti began in the earliest decades of its independence, when Haiti’s slaves and free gens de couleur rallied to liberate the country from the French in 1804. But by 1825, Haiti was living under a new kind of bondage–external debt. In order to keep the French and other Western powers from enforcing an embargo, it agreed to pay 150 million francs in reparations to French slave owners (yes, that’s right, freed slaves were forced to compensate their former masters for their liberty). In order to do that, they borrowed millions from French banks and then from the US and Germany. As Alex von Tunzelmann pointed out, “by 1900, it [Haiti] was spending 80 percent of its national budget on repayments.”

    “It took Haiti 122 years, but in 1947 the nation paid off about 60 percent, or 90 million francs, of this debt (it was able to negotiate a reduction in 1838). In 2003, then-President Aristide called on France to pay restitution for this sum–valued in 2003 dollars at over $21 billion. A few months later, he was ousted in a coup d’etat; he claims he left the country under armed pressure from the US. “

    But an earthquake is something that can affect anyone anywhere. Even the most stringent building regulations might not protect against a 9.0 earthquake.

    As regards the rescue missions. I saw where about 30 rescue teams were going in. Amid the massive rubble this must seem like a drop in a big bucket. Besides the scores rescued from this expensive undertaking perhaps the main benefit will be to keep the disaster alive in the eyes of the world’s media and elicit more donations. No one wants to ponder that over a hundred school children were crushed to death. Instead we want to focus on the one lone survivor rescued from the rubble as the spin is “He was too determined to die”. As if the survivor’s determination could have prevented 2 tons of concrete from otherwise crushing him. A way of distancing ourselves from the horror— as we can pretend that perhaps we too have such internal strength which would protect us from a natural disaster.

    Or if we want to really be good at this, just adopt Sharon’s attitude and posturing!

    See, as regards the history and relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, see…

    http://www.amazon.com/Why-Cocks-Fight-Dominicans-Hispaniola/dp/0809097133/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263975166&sr=1-1

    (“Why the Cocks Fight” on Amazon Books)

  15. A very sad story, according to the SJMN the women involve has two children and is about to give birth to a third.
    After all the nightmare stories about crack, meth, AIDS etc why does this continue?
    In this case it appears that the neighbors informed on the drug trafficking– Well done– the solution is neighborhood reporting of gangs and trafficking–we can put a stop to this by such brave actions.

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