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Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested After Packages of Meth-Laced Adderall Repeatedly Returned to Sender (www.404media.co)

submitted 9 months ago by DolphinMath@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Police arrested three men accused of selling thousands of pills of meth-laced “Adderall” on various darknet marketplaces and mailing them through the United States Postal Service through a fictitious business called “Professional Paper Filing Inc.” that listed a real return address of an uninvolved business. That business then told police that it was repeatedly getting packages of pills in the mail as "return to sender."

The men face a maximum possible penalty of life imprisonment.

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[–] Chozo@kbin.social 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's why you use a fake return address that doesn't exist. Allowing your product to get into real people's hands was just asking for trouble.

[–] Guest_User@lemmy.world 93 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wrong, fake addresses get picked up and flagged quickly. Valid addresses are required to keep the operation moving. One dark net dealer used the addresses of sex offenders as the addresses are publicly listed, and he didn't care if they got caught with drugs.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dexter thinking right here.

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not defending sex offenders but some of the things that get you lumped into that group are definitely not equal to others. Getting caught pissing in a bush, for instance, not exactly what we think of.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Luckily you can look up the details of most of the cases. Usually it's pretty to figure out which are simple junk out to pee and jamming your unwanted p in the v. Exposing the p but not to pee can be a little more difficult to determine but most of those guys (because it's normally guys) don't go any further than that (100% not trying to justify the behavior).

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 points 9 months ago

Have you guys considered that framing dudes who, by definition, have served their time is wrong regardless?

[+] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world -6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Surely the USPS would then just open the package, to try and identify who the sender was instead?

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe USPS can open packages without a warrant (which is why they're the preferred courier for drugs), and I don't think "multiple packages going to a wrong address" counts as probable cause. But it's been a minute since I've been involved in that end of things, so I dunno if that's still current protocol.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

https://www.uspis.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/USPIS-FAQs.pdf

Per #4 they need a warrant to open first class mail only. All other mail they can open without a warrant.

If it’s first class and they think the contents violate federal law then they can get a warrant. I doubt many legitimate pharmacies etc. ship pills via first class, and certainly not with a bogus return address. If they saw a pattern of that I would expect a warrant wouldn’t be too difficult to get.