Dealers Put Price on Activist’s Life
Drug dealers placed a $10,000 price on the head of feisty anti-drug crusader C.W. Roddy, who has waged a high-profile war against pushers in her crime-ridden neighborhood, the FBI said Friday.
An underworld “contract” was put out on the life of Roddy after she received national publicity for her one-woman war against dealers, FBI Agent William Smith said at a news conference at City Hall.
Roddy, 60, a retired telephone company worker, said she would not be intimidated by threats.
Roddy narrowly escaped injury New Year’s Eve when two suspected dealers stood across the street from her stucco house and opened fire with semiautomatic weapons. Bullets grazed Roddy’s abdomen and punched holes in walls, windows and furniture.
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