Life on the West Side

Thought it was about time to get a family blog together so we can keep in touch with friends and family, and share pictures of all the happenings of the Deming Clan in Provo. I couldn't think of a better way to kick of our family blog than by showing our most recent exciting adventure, a local drug bust. Cops, shake downs, stake outs, and patting the guys head when he gets in the car, the whole nine yards.

So to start with, we had just come home from the train station trying to see a train; instead we came home to an ambulance and a fire truck. We had hoped everything was alright, then right at our corner an undercover vehicle pulled over a truck and a bunch of people ran up to the truck, pulled the passenger and driver out and threw on the handcuffs. So what else could we do but break out the camera.

Well as with a usual drug bust, there were several Police cars parked outside the home.

Then a guy with a Cell phone came out, but we couldn't really hear him since a Train was blaring its horn.

Then more cops showed up.

Then of course they search a vehicle. The original Truck that as pulled over was already searched.

Some of the undercover cops.

Why is it that undercover cops always seems to be stocky bald guys?

Just a shot of one of the Police Vehicles. By now I switched over to the Nikon for a closer zoom, but since it was so dark, the auto focus was no doing well, and it was difficult to manually focus, but I did the best I could. I also had to expose the picture for like 3 seconds and my remote control battery was dead. Just wish I could have pulled off sharper pictures but oh well. I will do my best to save my photo-talk for a photo blog, but sometimes I need to throw out a disclaimer or two for blurry pictures.

We knew something was up since the van parked near our house was not the usual van. Also the truck on the other side of the street we believe was a stake out vehicle. We had notice the truck there several times at different spots during the last couple of weeks. We thought our neighbor had bought a new truck, but apparently not.

The funny thing is, one evening when the truck was out there we had to deliver a gift to someone in the ward anonymously so we thought we would play the part and dressed in hooded sweatshirts and act stealthy to scope out the home, then finally late that night we did deliver a package. If there indeed was someone staking out the neighbors, I am sure we drew some attention that evening.

This was the original truck that was pulled over. After being searched in the middle of the road they pulled it up to our Accord.

This is the part where they hold the guys head so he doesn't accidentally bump his head on the way into the back seat. I believe in total 3 guys were taken away.

Just another pic of the guy in the back seat.

And after some shuffling around and some drawn out talking all the stocky bald headed men packed up and went home.

It was quite the adventure, not something you see everyday. It turns out that the family that lives in the house next door was still there afterwards which makes us happy for the children. Over the past year we have watched that household more than double with occupants so it is our theory that our neighbors are good people trying to support friends and family, and unknowingly were housing some guys who just were not choosing the right. We hope the best for the family, and we will be sure to document any other such exciting events.