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Frank Boemmels, Lorraine Apuzzo (Photos courtesy Meriden Police)

Frank Boemmels, Lorraine Apuzzo (Photos courtesy Meriden Police)

MERIDEN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – A recent Pew Research study found 73 percent of cell phone owners send text message and those who do, send an average of more than 40 messages each day. With all those text messages coming and going, it’s not surprising that some reach the wrong recipients.

In Meriden recently, police say officers received a text from an unknown sender, offering black market sale of Percocet tablets, the prescription combination of oxycodone and acetaminophen. He notified the drug unit, continued communication with the texter, and set up a “buy.”

Police say the two people who showed up to sell the drugs grew suspicious, separated and tried to run, but police were able to take both into custody and seized 100 Percocet tablets.

The suspects are identified as 25-year-old Frank Boemmels of Wallingford and 19-year-old Lorraine Apuzzo of Mansfield. Both face charges of criminal attempt to sell narcotics and conspiracy, and Apuzzo also faces charges involving her attempt to escape.

Police say the investigation continues as they look for the source of the drugs and the person for whom the message was actually intended.

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  • Max17

    What does his T-shirt say, “Mensa”?

  • Nick

    Max-

    I laughed out loud at that!

  • Joe E in the IE

    The “D’oh!” Heard Around The World.

  • ManOnPoint

    They call it DOPE for a reason, it makes you STUPID!!!! Look at Ozzy Osbourne!!!

  • Spanky

    Don’t be so mean to them, maybe as drug users they’ll become President some day, like Barry.

    All they have to do is to hate the USA, make friends with domestic terrorists like William Ayers or racist/anti-Americans like Jeremiah Wright or get real close to corrupt political influence peddlers like Tony Rezko.

  • Big Jigaboo

    Look at Obummer, he used it, probably still does.

  • Barry’s CT. SSN 042-68-4425 FAILED E-VERIFY

  • josh

    Was that the hope and change he was talking about? haha

  • Joe

    How much were the pills going for?

  • poorhardworker

    This has to make the top of the list in the Darwin Awards!!!

  • JM in San Diego CA

    They didn’t become criminals because they’re smart.

    They became criminals because they AREN’T.

  • Fake Name

    I’m guessing one of them has done some snitching in the past and forgot to delete the number.

  • cp

    PERCOCET!!! Not “Percoset”— don’t you guys have an editor on your payroll???

  • artemis133

    Umm…hello…EDITORS…it’s spelled “Percocet”, not Percoset. For Pete’s sake…

  • Your Mama

    You’re ignorant. He is the president, get over. Go somewhere and sit down. Read a book while you’re at it.

  • Your Mama

    You guys leave the damn editors alone. Damn grammar checkers get on my nerves. I bet you idiots know how it’s spelled.

  • Your Mama

    Bush was an alcoholic….(what did you say?) huh? Yea, shut it up.

  • BcdErick

    I thought the girl’s pic looked kind of pretty. Whatever the case, it sure is going be hard sitting in jail and realizing that you’re dumb as a post. I don’t even know what percocet is. It’s my first time to hear of it.

  • your mommas boy toy

    Nice. You didn’t refute an single point he made. Maybe you are the one who needs to read a book. Or maybe a newspaper so you have some information for debating. And saying “he is president, get over” is ridiculous. Would you say the same thing if a person who you thought was destroying the country was in office? No. You’d be commenting on his shortcomings all over the internet – assuming of course that you had read a book or newspaper, which you clearly have not done yet.

  • your mommas boy toy

    Booze is and was legal; cocaine and dope are not and were not legal. So Obama was a habitual law breaker. And you appear to be arguing that the fact that Bush was an alcoholic at some point in his life justifies Obama doing cocaine and other drugs? Nice logic.

  • your mommas boy toy

    waaaa waaaaaa. Reading your comments is like looking into the mind of a screaming 2 year old.

  • Barry Jorge

    Don’t do drugs, kids. not because of the law ( most laws are stupid), but because they will make a 20 year-old look 40.

  • Man Among Sheeple

    Thank you! Now I don’t have to point it out.

  • Japes Macfarland

    Lol, “Mama”, except everything he’s said is true. And far more. That’s what’s so pathetic about you knee jerk leftists. You don’t even think! I suppose after 40 + years of most Americans being educated not to think critically in government run schools, I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s still depressing though.

    “You don’t want to teach little Johnnie how to think, because than you won’t be able to govern little Johnnie.” (paraphrase)
    John Dewey – one of the main founders of the ‘public’ State run education system.

  • Japes Macfarland

    Bush was also a pretty pathetic leader. But compared to the Leftist in chief he’s like Jesus. Except you wouldn’t know what I’m talking about because you’re likely fed your info. by other secular leftists (i.e. 90+% of the entire culture and media) and you don’t even know why or what I’m really talking about.

  • dbeall

    It’s so interesting how liberals can’t dispute facts and resort to name calling.

  • Factual Findings

    left v right flame war over some meth head pill salesmen going to jail, ahaha… silly country.

  • fritz von

    ….But they look so smart.

  • kcsparky

    Ya just gotta love the incredible stupidity of dopers!!! If this weren’t so pathetic, it would be hysterical. Two more losers “temporarily” off of the streets. Unfortunately they’ll be back because ya juat can’t fix stupid.

  • Reality

    Ha!They don’t even know about things like spell check,but they sure can point and click a mouse.

  • Reality

    Just a “stupid” white boy here,in 16 years of education,I NEVER scored lower than 95%,before the digital age.It’s good to be king!

  • Reality

    Smal srteps,Ellie,small steps.

  • ALCinVA

    It’s interesting how brainwashed conservatives can take any news story and make it into an Obama post. Get a life.

  • Carlos

    I’ll bet that’s the last time he uses SIRI.

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  • Henry

    right on.

  • vicky Bevis

    “Mensa Reject” I love how stupid drugs make criminals.

  • PQQ-247

    Ok, this really doesn’t pass the goofy test. He entered an incorrect address and it just happens to be a valid address and it just happens to be a police officer? Sounds like a long shot to me. If he was spamming everyone he knew and a lot of people he didn’t know, it’s possible the police managed to get on his “mailing list”. More likely an informant passed on the information and the police concocted this story to protect the informant.

  • Vicky Bevis

    Old narcotic drug; been around for ages. Percoset is Oxycodone with acetaminophen. Percodan is oxycodone with aspirin.

    What frosts my butt is how so many, including “journalists,” refer to ALL controlled substances as “narcotics.” Narcotics are a definable class of drugs with only certain ones in that class, Percoset being just one of them. Heroin, morphine, & codeine are just as few.

    The addition of aspirin or acetaminophren “potentiates” the drug giving it a better chance of increasing its’ efficacy.

    R.N., B.S.N.,M.S.N..

  • Suomynona

    Check out certain harm reduction forums. You’ll think you’re reading medical reports because of all the formulas and chemistry. These are the “dumb”people to whom everyone is referring. I am not saying what they did was not stupid, it was. Drug deals are inherently stupid. However, in most cases, it is not the drugs that make most of these people stupid (most ‘dealers’ do not do their own stuff), it’s greed and money.

  • http://987ampradio.radio.com/2012/01/24/morons-in-the-news-12412/ Morons in the News 1/24/12

    [...] In Meriden recently, police say officers received a text from an unknown sender, offering black market sale of Percoset tablets, the prescription combination of oxycodone and acetaminophen. He notified the drug unit, continued communication with the texter, and set up a “buy.” Police say the two people who showed up to sell the drugs grew suspicious, separated and tried to run, but police were able to take both into custody and seized 100 Percoset tablets. The suspects are identified as 25-year-old Frank Boemmels of Wallingford and 19-year-old Lorraine Apuzzo of Mansfield. Both face charges of criminal attempt to sell narcotics and conspiracy, and Apuzzo also faces charges involving her attempt to escape. Police say the investigation continues as they look for the source of the drugs and the person for whom the message was actually intended. Source [...]

  • KARL ANGLIN

    POINT TAKEN

  • Pink Monkey

    Yes Conservatives are smart thinking people, while liberals are amazed at shiny objects.

  • joe

    If Drugs were legal no one would have to sneak around and get the stuff they want. How can the Goverment dictate what you think you need for your Body. What crime was committed? Selling your possession to someone who wants it is nobody’s Business but the Buyer and Seller. How come you can sell your Sperm or your Blood but not your Lung or Kidney? The last 3 Presidents admitted using Drugs. Enpty the Jails and let Freedom ring.

  • facepalm

    boy toy, are you serious? you think you’re being proactive? sitting on the internet commenting on his shortcomings? yeah pat yourself on the back! you’re changing the world!

  • SpiffyMe

    After you empty the jails and let freedom ring then watch the chaos of a wild and sick society. You want that?

  • John_B

    That was really effective facepalm. But again, you can not refute any of the original assertions made about Mr. Obama. I am not trying to change the world by posting on any blog. Barry and all of the cronies listed above are though and it doesn’t look good for the U.S.A.

  • Nik

    I think the spanish word Menso is appropriate

  • TomS

    Some of us HAVE read books, and so have discovered what YOUR “president” is: an anti-American white hater. F-ck you and your little dog, too.

  • SpiffyMe

    Go to http://www.facesofmeth.com and tell me you’d like to live in a community of zombies and heath-hazardous meth labs scattered all around, children living in squalor and explosive environments, people unable to work but preying on the rest of us to get the means to access their deadly habits, hospitals overrun with addicts and suffering children who are also victims of a degenerate society.

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  • your mommas boy toy

    facepalm, and what are you doing? The same thing you criticized me for doing, right? And I am not trying to change the world. I’m just trying to inform a person who is commenting that you need to respond the comments with facts which refute the original comment and not nonsensical name calling. But after reading your mama’s comemts and your comments, I see it is pointless to explain things to monkeys like yourself.

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  • krp

    If you do enough, you will think that 80 year olds are 20

  • http://thefilthybasement.buniqclothing.com/2012/01/25/drug-dealing-couple-arrested-after-texting-cops/ Drug Dealing Couple Arrested After Texting Cops

    [...] cops and allegedly offering them drugs at the mall, Apuzzo got suspicious and tried to drive away, according to CBS. But detectives said they cornered the pill pusher and busted open her windows to get her out of [...]

  • http://usecmagazine.usecnetwork.com/usa/?p=31014 Alleged Drug Dealers Accidentally Text Conn. Cops, Get Arrested | USEC IM USA Edition

    [...] cops and allegedly offering them drugs at the mall, Apuzzo got suspicious and tried to drive away, according to CBS. But detectives said they cornered the pill pusher and busted open her windows to get her out of [...]

  • http://www.davidmcelroy.org/?p=9900 NEWS LINKS: Gingrich lied about $1.6 million deal with Fannie Mae « David McElroy

    [...] or texting the wrong number can be an embarrassment, but it doesn’t normally land you in jail. That’s what happened for a pair of hapless pill peddlers in Connecticut, though. They were [...]

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  • http://www.hartfordnewsday.com/crime/92-cops-drug-dealers-frank-boemmels-lorraine-apuzzo-accidentally-texted-us-about-drugs.html Cops: Drug Dealers Frank Boemmels, Lorraine Apuzzo accidentally texted us about drugs | Hartford News Blog

    [...] The officer who received the text notified the drug unit and continued communicating with the texter, eventually setting up a “buy,” reports CBS Connecticut. [...]

  • DannyBoy

    I know this guy he is my neighbour, lol frank you stupid I swear, i always wonder why he had so much stuff to for his age, to bad the girl is his ex lol

  • http://www.viciousnews.com/?p=2035 Dumber And Dumber – Drug Dealers Caught After They TEXT POLICE Offering New Available Drugs | Vicious News

    [...] A recent Pew Research study found 73 percent of cell phone owners send text message and those who do, send an average of more than 40 messages each day. (CBS Connecticut) [...]

  • http://kluv.cbslocal.com/2012/01/24/as-heard-on-jody-dean-tuesday-01242012/ As Heard On Jody Dean: Tuesday, 01/24/2012 « 98.7 KLUV

    [...] 19. Drug Sale Text goes to the Police [...]

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