“Run This Town”? More Like: Survive on Thorne Road. Police Celebrate Arresting Another Homeless Victim

🧊 Crack, the Street, and No Way Out

Another "major success" by the police has hit the headlines. A woman, who allegedly bragged about wanting to "run this town", has been jailed for selling crack cocaine. Sounds like a cartel boss, right?

Not even close.

Jail for drug dealer who wanted to 'run this town' [bbc.co.uk]

Mark, a Doncaster resident who spoke to Newser.uk, shared the following account about the woman in question – Millie Jones:

“I know this girl. Her name is Millie Jones. She’s not some drug queenpin. She’s homeless, addicted, and doesn’t even have enough money for food. She used to stand on Thorne Road in Doncaster, waiting for men who paid her for sex just so she could survive. And now the police want us to believe she was running the town just because she had a few wraps of crack on her?”

According to Mark, Millie is a victim, not a boss — and targeting her is more about headlines than real justice.

🧍‍♀️ Millie Isn’t “Running the Town” – She’s Barely Surviving

BBC News reported that Millie once said she wanted to “run this town.” But let’s be serious: do we really believe a homeless woman, sleeping rough and begging for a fix, is planning to take over Doncaster?

More likely, it was a darkly ironic comment from someone broken by addiction and neglect.

🧾 Where Was Aspire Doncaster?

Millie receives no support from Aspire Drug & Alcohol Services – Doncaster. No rehabilitation, no shelter, no access to consistent help. The system that was meant to protect people like her simply abandoned her.

🎭 “Dream Alpha”? More Like “Dream Illusion”

The police love to flaunt Operation Dream Alpha – supposedly targeting organized drug networks.

But what are they really doing?

• Arresting the homeless for carrying a few grams.

• Charging them as if they’re serious traffickers.

• Handing out prison sentences to those who can’t even afford to eat.

Millie is not a dealer. She is the collateral damage of a system that refuses to address the root causes.
Operation “Dream Alpha” is nothing more than public theatre, where locking up a vulnerable woman is marketed as a tactical victory.

That’s not fighting organized crime — it’s managing public perception.

👤 Mark Tells It Like It Is

“My name is Mark. I’ve lived in Doncaster for years. I see what’s happening. People like Millie — they’re addicts, outcasts, forgotten by the system. And now, they’re being called 'dealers' and 'threats to society' just because they’re trying to survive. Most of them don’t even know where their next meal is coming from, let alone how to find a detox bed.”

If the police truly want to dismantle the drug trade, they should be tracking those supplying the product, not punishing those who were destroyed by it.

🧨 Real Question:

How many more “success stories” like this do we need before we admit the system isn’t solving the problem — it’s just deepening it?