I think my next door neighbor is a drug dealer

[mr.72]

When I was first married, a long time ago :), we had a similar situation with neighbors in an apartment (BTW, same apartment complex where they filmed Office Space, we had the same floor plan apartment as the one with the magazine salesman scene...). Same kind of thing, constant flood of people parking on the curb, running up the stairs, knocking on the door, and either being handed something out the door or going inside for 1 minute and then coming out and heading off.

We called the Austin police and they had no interest.

While this seemed peaceful and just annoying for a while, eventually it turned violent. One day I watched as the guy in the apartment pushed a guy down an entire flight of exterior stairs and continued beating him after he was on the ground. This type of thing happened occasionally and we just didn't want to be in the middle of something. Still even though we were like 8 blocks from a police sub-station they still were not interested in following up with us about this (I am sure they knew what was going on). And then poof, the apartment was vacant one day.

Drug deals "go bad" sometimes. Customers can't pay, get desperate, steal things, do stupid things, get shot at and that kind of thing. I would not recommend standing by to see what happens. You never know when this could turn from suspicious to dangerous. I would be in the PD ASAP.

[DoubleJ]

Heard that. coulda posted this thread mah own self.
went and talked to my local municipality, and they said short of me going "undercover," wasn't nothin' they could do. I couldn't get license plate numbers, but did see the same couple o' dudes come by.
then it all quit. guess somebody got nervous in the service.
what a cluster bomb that whole sichy-ation was.

good luck. keep your peepers peeled!

[Flatland2D]

Just wanted to update everyone.

We never ended up doing anything about the neighbor. And a week ago he moved out!

We were pretty sure he was gone because his pittbull was gone. But then I saw my other neighbor who owns the house that he was renting, and he confirmed that he had moved out without notice.

So we are very happy about that.

[atxgun]

say man, can you see if your neighbor can hook me up

[casingpoint]

Welcome to America.

[bryang]

I am glad everything turned out okay for you. I appreciate this thread, I have learned a lot, as usual around here.

Thanks,

-geo

[dukalmighty]

Wanta really make em peek out winders 24/7,if they are meth addicts just make a casual comment about all the undercover cops you seen driving by lately

[CHLSteve]

[we] wanted to move to a place where we wouldn't have to actively worry about our safety.

There is no such place, my friend. There are 'drug dealers' who live in all types of neighborhoods, from the poorest to the richest. Just ask my brother-in-law about the people who live across the street from him in a $250,000 home. As someone who's also personally lived next door to drug dealers several times, I can sympathize with your concern. Fortunately, they don't seem to stay put for very long.