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dwpineal
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Authorities try to intercept drugs sent by mail Post office unwittingly delivers more than mail
#13438674 - 11/05/10 01:04 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-11-04/news/bs-md-hermann-drugs-post-20101104_1_priority-mail-intercept-drugs-illegal-drugs
Authorities try to intercept drugs sent by mail Post office unwittingly delivers more than mail
The apartments called Tubman House on Towson Way are part of a new dorm complex for freshmen and sophomores at Towson University, and someone recently sent an occupant there 65 grams of marijuana.
A townhouse on Randallstown's Kenny Green Court is a suburban cookie-cutter home on a cul-de-sac, and someone from West Hollywood, Calif., recently mailed 1,450 grams of marijuana to that address.
Federal agents with the U.S. postal inspector's office intercepted both packages, according to search warrant applications — and subsequent lists of what the searches revealed — unsealed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore this week. These are just two of hundreds, if not thousands, of mailings containing illegal drugs being sent around the country by unsuspecting postal carriers.
Using express or priority mail — a service that is quicker than regular mail but slower than overnight mail — to deliver illegal drugs is not new, but authorities say they are trying to stem the tide against what they concede are overwhelming odds. It's easier and safer to package drugs and put them in a mailbox than to stand on a street corner.
"They're working on statistics," said Special Agent Edward Marcinko, a spokesman for the Baltimore office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "How many millions of packages are being shipped? Millions of packages, and maybe a few get intercepted. It's a good gamble."
Postal inspectors all over the country are reporting a surge in investigations and arrests, and a quick scan of files in federal courts around the country show hundreds of recent cases involving packages plucked by authorities from the mail.
Federal authorities say that in 2009, postal inspectors in the U.S. arrested 1,227 suspects on charges of trafficking drugs through the mail and seized $4.9 million in cash and 45,964 pounds of illegal narcotics.
A mail processing plant in Linthicum seems to be a hub for activity in Maryland, with packages passing through en route to the far reaches of Western Maryland, the Eastern Shore and Washington.
Search warrant applications have become boilerplate, and note that drug dealer's use of the mail "is favored because of the reliability, speed and low cost, as well as the perceived minimal chance of detection."
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jackdaniels
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Re: Authorities try to intercept drugs sent by mail Post office unwittingly delivers more than mail [Re: dwpineal]
#13438708 - 11/05/10 01:11 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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45,964 pounds of illegal narcotics
silly feds still think marijuana is a narcotic.
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Re: Authorities try to intercept drugs sent by mail Post office unwittingly delivers more than mail [Re: dwpineal]
#13438750 - 11/05/10 01:21 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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dwpineal said: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-11-04/news/bs-md-hermann-drugs-post-20101104_1_priority-mail-intercept-drugs-illegal-drugs
A mail processing plant in Linthicum seems to be a hub for activity in Maryland, with packages passing through en route to the far reaches of Western Maryland, the Eastern Shore and Washington.
so what if packages are going to places around the us it suspicious?
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FractalDust
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Re: Authorities try to intercept drugs sent by mail Post office unwittingly delivers more than mail [Re: jackdaniels]
#13440469 - 11/05/10 07:25 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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jackdaniels said:
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45,964 pounds of illegal narcotics
silly feds still think marijuana is a narcotic.
Uh marijuana is a narcotic. Schedule 1.
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In a legal context, a narcotic drug is simply one that is totally prohibited, or one that is used in violation of strict governmental regulation, such as PCP and marijuana.
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Re: Authorities try to intercept drugs sent by mail Post office unwittingly delivers more than mail [Re: FractalDust]
#13440642 - 11/05/10 08:09 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Cops are so fucking dumb that instead of admitting that many of their officers are too stupid to classify drugs properly, they instead just reinvent new legal defintions of already defined words in order to "take care of the problem" rather than just speaking correctly.
Telling me that "Legally, you can call heroin, cannabis, cocaine or meth a narcotic" is fucking stupid. It's obvious that narcotic is dervied from narkos; with connotations of sleep and dreaming, relating to opium's effects throughout history. Cops heard other cops referencing "narcotics", specifically heroin and morphine and inferred that they were referring to "DROOOGS" and thus started using "narcotic" for "Droogs"
The fact that they've added "narcotic" to the legal dictionary as such is fucking laughable and demonstrates how retarded the entire government really is. Speed, a NARKOtic? Really? Okay.
It's like that People's Democratic Republic of the blah blah blah bullshit in Africa. Just people talking bullshit, making shit up.
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FractalDust
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Re: Authorities try to intercept drugs sent by mail Post office unwittingly delivers more than mail [Re: Humility]
#13440654 - 11/05/10 08:12 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Narcotic just sounds bad so they rolled with it.
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fapjack
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Re: Authorities try to intercept drugs sent by mail Post office unwittingly delivers more than mail [Re: FractalDust]
#13440719 - 11/05/10 08:22 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Marijuana isn't a narcotic, even if those stupid bastards want to say that it is. Narcotics are opiates/opioids.
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Invisible_Woe


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Re: Authorities try to intercept drugs sent by mail Post office unwittingly delivers more than mail [Re: fapjack]
#13440813 - 11/05/10 08:42 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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the word narcotic is a obsolete one IMO, it used to refer to drugs like opiates, alcohol and deleriants that caused a stupor and out of controll behavior. now its used in all sorts of ways
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