Let’s give credit to the Boston Herald for putting the subject’s political affiliation in the third paragraph, where people might actually read it:
It seemed ripped from the script of a “Breaking Bad” episode, but the case of Stephen W. Doran — a math and English tutor diagnosed with stage 3 cancer who now stands accused of trafficking crystal meth — is all too real.
“This isn’t a television show. This is serious business,” Suffolk district attorney spokesman Jake Wark said, referring to the hit AMC series in which a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with stage 3 cancer turns to dealing crystal meth.
A lawyer for Doran, a former Democratic state representative from 1980 to 1994 who once chaired the Legislature’s Ethics Committee, told a judge at Doran’s West Roxbury District Court arraignment yesterday that his client has been receiving chemotherapy for the past 11 months.
“His life is on the line here literally. This is a man who is being treated for stage 3 cancer at Mass. General Hospital,” attorney Vincent Murray said of Doran, 57, of Dorchester, who was arrested as he left the Match Charter Middle School in Jamaica Plain with what police said was an express parcel containing 480 grams of crystal meth.
That’s pretty messed up, yo. Did it have any chili P in it? That’s my signature!
Cancer sucks, but that doesn’t mean you get to deal meth. People forget, Walter White is the bad guy on that show. Doran just needs the beard, glasses, and porkpie hat:
He also needs Walt’s luck. Well, too late for that.
