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Somatic
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What to do if I think a bust is immanent?
#10389677 - 05/24/09 06:00 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hey, my friend was dealing for a while but he stopped after it got to big, he thinks that the cops might have already gathered enough evidence and are just waiting for my friend to do more stuff that would get him into deeper trouble. He now does not do anything illegal and wants to know how long he will need to wait before he knows he is clean. He also wants to know if he should ditch his cell phone because it could tie him to certain things.
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Re: What to do if I think a bust is immanent? [Re: Somatic]
#10389826 - 05/24/09 07:39 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ditch cell phone, go pre-paid permanently or purchase service from a cheap, local service provider for legitimate calls and have a pre-paid for less legitimate calls.
Keep house and car clean.
If he's concerned that he's already been looked at and they're simply waiting to accumulate more charges, I'd say just leave town for 6 mo.-year. It sounds difficult but if you get caught, you'll be roughing it just as you would be by disappearing for a while. At least by choosing to go you can decide where you end up and how you go about living your life.
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Re: What to do if I think a bust is immanent? [Re: Humility]
#10392322 - 05/24/09 06:08 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Depending on the statute of limitations, they can bring charges up to about 5 years after the alleged crime was committed. It's not unusual in undercover cases to wait over a year before charging. If he leaves town he could be charged with fleeing to evade prosecution possibly. But if they don't grab him within the statutory period then he gets away from the original charges. I doubt they would charge him with fleeing after all that time. The hard part is staying low and not being caught if there is a warrant out. Going to another state *might* do the trick unless they do a thorough check.
But he may not be in any trouble at all.
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