"At the station, Monk denied that the heroin was his and said he didn’t know who it belonged to. During his interrogation he repeatedly refused to implicate Powell, who had been strapped into a straightjacket and sent to the psych ward at Bellevue. Monk would never snitch out Powell. Seven years older than Powell, Monk had been his mentor, his friend, his nurse. He knew Powell was too frail to handle prison and later said he wasn’t about to “drag him down.”
This is an account of just how loyal a friend Monk was to Powell, he ended up losing his card (which meant he was effectively banned from performing in all NYC music venues) to prevent him getting a custodial sentence.
― calzino, Saturday, 26 November 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link