Description: UP FOR AUCTION IS TRULY AN AMAZING FIND. WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS NONE OTHER THAN MARY "FORTUNATA" FONTI. MISS FONTI WAS A KNOWN DRUG TRAFFICKER IN THE EARLY 1930's THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF THE 1940's. A SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH WILL DETAIL HER CRIMINAL EXPLOITS. THE TWO WANTED POSTERS ISSUED FOR HER CAPTURE ARE FROM DECEMBER 2ND OF 1935, AND AGAIN FEBRUARY 11TH, 1936. WHATS SO AMAZING IS BOTH WERE ISSUED BY THE NOW DEFUNCT, FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS, TREASURY DEPARTMENT. ON BOTH WANTED POSTERS IT NOTES THAT MISS FONTI CARRIES A REVOLVER, AND IS KNOWN TO ALWAYS HAVE MORPHINE IN HER POSSESSION. HER LAST ARREST OF WHICH SHE FAILED TO APPEAR IN COURT WAS FOR THE SALE OF OVER 25 OUNCES OF HEROIN. SHE WAS KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE NORTHERN STATES AS ONE OF THE BIGGEST FEMALE DRUG TRAFFICKER OF HER TIME. MAJORITY OF HER ARRESTS WERE IN BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS. GUARANTEED THERE ARE NO OTHER ONES LIKE IT.. THESE ARE THE ABSOLUTE LAST REMAINING .. DON'T MISS THEM. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) was an agency of the United States Department of the Treasury, established in the Department of the Treasury by an act of June 14, 1930, consolidating the functions of the Federal Narcotics Control Board and the Narcotic Division. These older bureaus were established to assume enforcement responsibilities assigned to the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 and the Jones–Miller Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act of 1922. HistoryHarry J. Anslinger was appointed its first commissioner by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon under President Herbert Hoover. Under Anslinger, the bureau lobbied for harsh penalties for drug usage. The FBN is credited for criminalizing drugs such as marijuana with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, as well as strengthening the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914. Even so, the main focus of the FBN was fighting opium and heroin smuggling. One instance against opium was the Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942. To that end the FBN over time established several offices overseas in France, Italy, Turkey, Beirut, Thailand and other hotspots of international narcotics smuggling. These agents (never totaling more than 17) cooperated with local drug enforcement agencies in gathering intelligence on smugglers and also made undercover busts locally. The work against heroin and opium was however hamstrung by US foreign policy considerations: during the Vietnam War for instance great importance was placed on investigating minor Vietnamese smugglers that could be connected to the resistance while investigations of large scale smugglers from the US ally Thailand were left unfinished. PLEASE MAKE US YOUR BEST OFFER, WE WILL ACCEPT ANY REASONABLE OFFER THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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