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High Stakes Vegas

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  • Two crack cocaine dealers wear masks to conceal their identities.
  • Steve is a Vietnam vet and a crack addict. At 64, he has been living in Vegas on and off for the past 25 years.
  • Steve has a $50-a-day crack habit, and spends most days after getting high panhandling.
  • Baby Doh is a crack dealer and manufacturer in West Las Vegas.
  • To make crack, all Baby Doh needs is an empty kitchen, some household products, and a large quantity of cocaine.
  • This is cocaine before it is cooked into crack.
  • Sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, is a base used in preparation of crack.
  • Baby Doh lets the cocaine simmer and cook until it melts down to a gel substance.
  • After the cooking process is complete, the maker forms the substance into the rock-like shape.
  • Baby Doh cooks crack with two associates.
  • Vegas Metro PD officers Burnett and Madrid police the streets of Las Vegas.
  • Routine car stops can often yield good results for the Vegas Metro PD.

  • Dealers

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    Two crack cocaine dealers wear masks to conceal their identities.

  • Steve

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    Steve is a Vietnam vet and a crack addict. At 64, he has been living in Vegas on and off for the past 25 years.

  • Crack Habit

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    Steve has a $50-a-day crack habit, and spends most days after getting high panhandling.

  • Baby Doh

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    Baby Doh is a crack dealer and manufacturer in West Las Vegas.

  • Coke Pile

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    To make crack, all Baby Doh needs is an empty kitchen, some household products, and a large quantity of cocaine.

  • Bag of Coke

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    This is cocaine before it is cooked into crack.

  • Cutting Coke

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    Sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, is a base used in preparation of crack.

  • Stovetop

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    Baby Doh lets the cocaine simmer and cook until it melts down to a gel substance.

  • Squares of Crack

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    After the cooking process is complete, the maker forms the substance into the rock-like shape.

  • Cooks in the Kitchen

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    Baby Doh cooks crack with two associates.

  • Drug Bust

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    Vegas Metro PD officers Burnett and Madrid police the streets of Las Vegas.

  • Vegas Police

    Photograph by National Geographic Channels

    Routine car stops can often yield good results for the Vegas Metro PD.
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