[Crime] Tayseri Drug Lord “Lady” T’Pasi Found Dead

[Crime] Tayseri Drug Lord “Lady” T’Pasi Found Dead

The Tayseri Times

CITADEL, LOCAL CLUSTER - A grisly discovery awaited C-Sec officers today as the bodies of notorious and elusive drug dealer Avala “Lady” T’Pasi and two men believed to be her top lieutenants, a Mr. Johann Ahlberg and Mr. Caius Avita, were recovered in the districts of Iacto, Sioc, and Roi respectively. The deceased had been shot execution style; the bodies mutilated post mortem and publicly displayed. A brutal and shocking crime, even by the standards of the more dangerous Lower districts, and one more that would appear to have more in common with Omegan gangsters than the average Tayseri criminal.

Unfortunately, that appears to be precisely the issue.

“What we’ve seen over the last couple months has been a marked decline in random, violent crime. Things like muggings, robberies, rapes, and homicides have decreased by nearly eighteen percent with most of the drop being concentrated down Ward.” Sergeant Hasa of Lower Zakera’s Precinct 33 explained.

“Now ordinarily this would be a great thing if it was C-Sec doing it. Instead what’s happening is that, while these statistics have been declining, the incidence of drug charges, prostitution, unlicensed firearms, untaxed imports, and missing persons cases have been spiking across the board. And while random violent crimes have been decreasing, things like what happened to Ms. T’Pasi are becoming more and more common. Taken together this really can only mean one thing: we have organized groups moving into the Lower Wards and they’re expanding. ”

Despite holding the distinction of one of the most secure locations in the galaxy, defended by a force composed of some of the Council’s best and brightest, the Citadel is no stranger to criminal enterprises, and said force is still recovering from the heavy losses sustained during the Reaper War, both during the attempted coup by the human extremist group Cerberus and at the hands of the Reapers themselves in the final days of the War.

“It’s just a mess,” added the Sergeant, “we have career criminals who fled Omega when it fell to Cerberus, Terminus elements who just showed up and never left during the war, war criminals and mercenaries who are between jobs because the bigger companies are crowding them out. Throw in a bunch of old and well established groups like The Light that Dwells within the Depths or the Brother’s Circle moving to take advantage of the power vacuum left by the War and new players like Trinity or the Bloody Hands hungry for a piece of the action? Everything south of Midward is just a powderkeg waiting to happen.”

Tayseri Ward Councilman Massos Veleen had this to say on the situation. “What they have here is the perfect breeding ground: a significantly weakened security force, a station still under repair, and a vast pool of potential recruits to draw from in the form of refugees. To properly address the issue we must first address the root causes and this, I fear, will be a long and arduous task with no easy outcome. ”

Sulla, Tayseri *is* a nice place. It's not as though there isn't crime on the Presidium...it's just more subtle, ie, more fraud, less armed robbery, and when the dirty deals go down, they happen out of everyone's sight.

Well... True. Maybe I'm just used to comparing every place I've been in to my hometown, where the crime rate is basically zero. And Tayseri seemed to be relatively better than it was before the war for the little while I got to see it. But then you read something like this.