GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A heroin dealer taken down in a broad daylight bust told Target 8 he feels guilty “in a way” for selling a drug that he calls “high risk.”
“Don’t nobody never know (what’s in the heroin),” Harry Anthony Childress III admitted.
“Won’t nobody never know until a lab tell you. Even if you do it, you will not know what’s up in there,” Childress told Target 8 the afternoon of his arrest by the Kent Area Narcotics Enforcement Team in mid-April. “That’s the thing. The risk, the chance (you take) touching that stuff. It’s high risk.”
The 22-year-old talked to Target 8 in an interview room at the Kent County Sheriff’s Department.
“I never know what I’m getting,” Childress said of the heroin he sells.
Childress said he does not use drugs himself, but called the money he makes from selling it “addicting.”
“Sometimes you have to risk your freedom so you can have something,” he said.
Childress, whose Facebook page lists his hometown as Grand Rapids and his job as “construction,” told Target 8 that he came from a stable, two-parent household but didn’t have a lot growing up.
“I’m still that same person that came out of my mama that was willing to do right under her rules. I never, ever, was this type of person until I got a little older,” he said.
He started getting in criminal trouble at age 17, later racking up felony convictions for weapons, stolen property and drugs. The soon-to-be father said his felony record makes it nearly impossible for him to get a good-paying, legitimate job.
Childress refused to say how he first got into dealing drugs.
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