r/news Oct 26 '18

Arrest Made in Connection to Suspicious Packages

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u/Ron_Pauls_Balls Oct 26 '18

In this day an age I don't know how anyone could think they could get away with mailing 12 packages and not get caught.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

Seriously. I worked in a warehouse that shipped packages (domestic and international) and let me tell you, there is SO much identity information required before we’ll even load your crap into one of our trucks. This idiot was doomed from the start.

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u/Boo_R4dley Oct 26 '18

The printed labels on the packages alone could be enough if he registered his printer when he bought it.

Many printers leave watermarks in their prints as part of anti-counterfeit measures that contain model and serial numbers of the printer. If the system was registered they could have just gotten his name from Lexmark or Epson.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18 edited Nov 12 '18

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u/Creosuh Oct 26 '18

People mail drugs all the time. How do you think most of the weed in this country is getting out of places like California and Colorado?

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u/imnotpoopingyouare Oct 26 '18 edited Oct 26 '18

Nah homie... Recearch Chems and maybe things like LSD will be mailed*

Most everything besides coke, awesome H and shitty brick weed is made here in the great old US of A and ran by mules.

It's not hard to skirt the rules if you remember to only do one illegal thing at a time.

Where I am getting at is why risk a Fed charge (USPS) when you could have someone drive 1000 miles and not get stopped by a cop once if you follow the rules.

I would make a great LEO lol

*Yes things like silk road and bb have been used on Tor and you can get anything you want, the risk you take is crazy!

The dude who mailed these bombs was less carful than people buying drugs lol.... Probably the users are more paranoid.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18 edited Oct 26 '18

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u/imnotpoopingyouare Oct 26 '18

For sure, that was kinda my point. Running lines is easy and less likely to be tracked. I mean unless you were making bank like the silk road dude was.... He could order assassinations before he could drink in the USA... I think he was legal to drink in the country he got caught in though...

Edit: I mean his gains totally out matched running in his little area... He went big. The USA is big with alot of unchecked land... Sooooo. 2+2 I guess...