A Journalistic Opportunity

I wish someone with writing talent would interview these two sisters in Pennsylvania. This is a story begging to be told:

Elderly Pennsylvania sisters arrested on drug charges

Two elderly sisters from Monroe County, Pennsylvania have been arrested for allegedly distributing drugs.

Elizabeth Marie Grube, 70, and her 65-year-old sister, Elaine Volkert, are facing drug charges after being arrested on April 14.

Investigators said they seized 400 bags of heroin with a street value of $8,000 and more than $2,000 from the home of Grube in the 1000 block of Ehler Street.

On the same day, a task force seized 988 bags of heroin with a street value of $20,000 and approximately $1,600 in cash from Volkert's home also in the 1000 block of Ehler Street. Police also seized quantities of Oxycontin and marijuana during the search.

According to investigators, both Grube and Volkert had been selling between 500 and 1,500 bags of heroin every two weeks for the past two months. Prior to selling heroin, the sisters had been selling crack cocaine, police said.

This report is something any hack can put together off the police blotter. What inquiring minds want to know is how they got into the business? Were they users? What did they do with the money? Were they involved in the counter-culture 40 years ago?

Alas, I fear we shall never know.


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