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Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting
    #19307164 - 12/21/13 09:49 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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After officials tracked the upcoming cross-country deal for days, a Tiverton man was arrested Monday night in the back parking lot of the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Lincoln while in the act of transferring cardboard boxes filled with marijuana from one van to another.

According to official accounts, and other reports, at the time of the arrest, the man — Michael M. Daniels, 31, whose “last known address” was said to be Tiverton — was under close surveillance by law enforcement officials as the deal finally went down.

For several days officials had been tracking approximately 300 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $1.2 million, as it made its way by plane across country from California.

The events that unfolded Monday night in the hotel parking lot culminated a zig-zag, cross-country journey by a plane with tinted windows carrying the contraband marijuana that made every effort to avoid detection by radar and urban airports.

Those very efforts, however, may have triggered official interest in the plane, which was reportedly followed part of the way by a Black Hawk helicopter.

After Monday night’s arrest, a criminal complaint filed Tuesday, Dec. 17 in the United States District Court for Rhode Island in Providence, charged Michael Daniels with conspiracy to possess — with intent to distribute — marijuana in violation of federal law.

His brother, Benjamin J. Daniels, 37, of West Bountiful Utah, was also charged with the same offense.

The plane, a Cessna 207A, carrying the marijuana left a small airport in northern California on Thursday, Dec. 12 and landed Monday night, Dec. 16 at North Central State Airport in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

An article in the Ellwood City Ledger (Pennsylvania) by reporter E. Poole reports that efforts by the pilot “to literally fly below the radar,”  along with other “multiple suspicious procedures,” drew the attention of authorities to the plane as it made its way across the country.

So when the plane landed at New Castle Airport in Pennsylvania for refueling, dogs sniffed the plane, a search was conducted, and the drugs were found.

The pilot, (Ken Barton Burrows, 53, of Orem, Utah), was charged, and detained, and a criminal complaint was filed against him in Pennsylvania.

In writing about the circumstances of the pilot’s arrest and the Pennsylvania complaint and charges, Reporter Poole said, “The airplane’s windows were tinted dark, Burrows had not filed a flight plan, and he was avoiding urban areas with large airports that would have tracked him by radar from long-range towers. As Burrows small-airport-hopped across the United States, Homeland Security began tracking him and used a Black Hawk helicopter to tail the aircraft.”

After the charges were filed in Pennsylvania, Reporter Poole said, officials “then permitted the Department of Homeland Security to take the airplane to its intended destination in Rhode Island as part of an operation to capture the dealer who was purchasing the marijuana.”

The criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Providence against Mr. Daniels says the amount of marijuana in the plane “is not consistent with personal use.”

The complaint details what happened after the plane left New Castle, referring to “the pilot” but never by name.

On Monday, Dec. 16, the complaint says, “the boxes containing the marijuana were transported from Pennsylvania to North Central State Airport” in Smithfield, where they arrived about 3 p.m. and were loaded (it’s not clear from the complaint by whom or how) into a white cargo van.

There followed multiple text messages and phone calls back and forth, over about a three hour period, the complaint indicates, between “the pilot” and Benjamin Daniels, who said his “buddy” (quotes in the original complaint, and presumably referring to Michael Daniels) was in the process of getting what was later confirmed as another van.

After these multiple communications, about 6 p.m., two vans ultimately arrived in the back parking lot of the Courtyard Marriott, one a white cargo van, the other a gray minivan.

The complaint says that Michael Daniels and “the pilot” began transferring the marijuana from the white cargo van to the gray minivan.

“After approximately 7 of the boxes were transferred, investigators arrived. Michael Daniels was arrested. Upon arrest he was found to be in possession of $4,694,” says the complaint.

The complaint says that the minivan was rented from Enterprise Car Rentals in Fall River about an hour after the plane landed at North Central State Airport.




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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: funkerdslr]
    #19307203 - 12/21/13 10:02 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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For several days officials had been tracking approximately 300 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $1.2 million, as it made its way by plane across country from California.




Maybe if they sold it by the eighth... :rofl:


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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: Synthe]
    #19308631 - 12/21/13 04:29 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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For several days officials had been tracking approximately 300 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $1.2 million, as it made its way by plane across country from California.




Maybe if they sold it by the eighth... :rofl:



Yeah, no shit! These are the same types of dickheads who would say that a tab of NBOMe is worth as much as a hit of acid.


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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: Camwritesgonzo]
    #19310696 - 12/22/13 06:11 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

You aren't required to file a flight plan neither are you required to fly in close proximity to cities and town's.

So what gave the Department Of Homeland Security suspicion?  More like random "fishing".

Dog's cant smell vacuum sealed marijuana. 

These pig's need a life and a lesson in being a human being.  Its marijuana.  Not worth incarcerating people over. 


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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: Ritual]
    #19315894 - 12/23/13 12:08 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Dog's cant smell vacuum sealed marijuana. 





Try again. You obviously have not been keeping up. It has been fairly well established that even triple vacuum sealing cannabis is not effective for any meaningful period of time at concealing its odor from trained canines.


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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: Ojom]
    #19319953 - 12/24/13 07:33 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Dog's cant smell vacuum sealed marijuana. 





Try again. You obviously have not been keeping up. It has been fairly well established that even triple vacuum sealing cannabis is not effective for any meaningful period of time at concealing its odor from trained canines.




You are naive if you believe that.

Most plastics are not that permeable.




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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: Ojom]
    #19322223 - 12/24/13 05:08 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Dog's cant smell vacuum sealed marijuana. 





Try again. You obviously have not been keeping up. It has been fairly well established that even triple vacuum sealing cannabis is not effective for any meaningful period of time at concealing its odor from trained canines.




Source please! Hopefully it's not the guy who was trying extort vendors into buying his super scent proof bags on SR. I don't believe that dogs can detect drugs anymore. That is a lie told by law enforcement. There is no drug dog training center they need to graduate from where they get good percentages on tests. There is no quality control. Drug drugs exist in order for police to get probably cause to search black people or long haired people's cars. They hit on cars based on cues from handlers, that's it. Dogs cannot sniff out drugs. Here is my link:



In 2010, a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis set out to test the reliability of drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs.

The team assembled 18 police dogs and their handlers and gave them a routine task: go through a room and sniff out the drugs and explosives.

But there was a twist. The room was clean. No drugs, no explosives.

In order to pass the test, the handlers and their dogs had to go through the room and detect nothing.

But of 144 runs, that happened only 21 times, for a failure rate of 85 percent.

Although drug-sniffing dogs are supposed to find drugs on their own, the researchers concluded that they were influenced by their handlers, and that's what led to such a high failure rate.

The reliability of drug dogs and their handlers is at the heart of a lawsuit filed in state district court by two Nevada Highway Patrol K-9 troopers and a consultant, who claim that the Metropolitan Police Department's police dogs, and eventually NHP's own dogs, were "trick ponies" that responded to their handlers' cues, and therefore routinely violated citizens' rights to lawful search under the Fourth Amendment.

The lawsuit goes on to make a number of other accusations in its 104-page complaint: that the Metropolitan Police Department is a racketeering organization, that money seized by motorists was misappropriated by the Department of Public Safety, that the two troopers were subjected to harassment and intimidation by their agency.

But what has defense attorneys and civil advocates taking notice are the allegations of illegal searches, which could call into question the seizure of millions of dollars from motorists on Nevada highways and jeopardize an untold number of criminal cases stemming from those stops.

The story continues: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/cr...ty-police-dogs


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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: Ritual]
    #19323359 - 12/24/13 09:21 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Dog's cant smell vacuum sealed marijuana. 





Try again. You obviously have not been keeping up. It has been fairly well established that even triple vacuum sealing cannabis is not effective for any meaningful period of time at concealing its odor from trained canines.




You are naive if you believe that.

Most plastics are not that permeable.







And I think it is you who are naive to believe they are effective scent containers against canines.

As for mr my3rdeye, I both agree and disagree with you. I wholeheartedly believe that drug dogs are very commonly a facade used to facilitate illegal searches on the part of law enforcement. I think anyone who believes otherwise is a damn fool. I disagree however that properly trained dogs are not capable of detecting scents that humans would otherwise be unable to detect. They absolutely can detect odors otherwise unnoticeable to humans.

I was waiting in line at a music festival with a joint of some loud and two caps of MDMA/MDA in my pocket when the dogs and their handlers walked within a foot of me with the dog in search mode. The dog did not alert on me. Even the police will acknowledge that these are animals we are talking about, not machines. They are easily distracted and when you're talking about a music festival a large percentage of the people in attendance are going to have some drug odor lingering on their clothing. If the dog is constantly surrounded by what its looking for what is it going to do? Bark constantly? If it does its largely going to be ignored and probably put back in its kennel as useless. I suspect its just going to ignore most odors and perhaps alert on only the absolute strongest scent, or perhaps the more rare scent that its trained to detect.


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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: Ojom]
    #19334710 - 12/27/13 10:08 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

If you think dog's can smell through heat sealed plastic's then you need to go back to school.

It's a myth busted over and over again.


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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: Ritual]
    #19335020 - 12/27/13 11:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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If you think dog's can smell through heat sealed plastic's then you need to go back to school.

It's a myth busted over and over again.






Barry Cooper strongly disagrees with you.

See this video, the important part is 3:15 to 6:10.



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Re: Tiverton Man Busted In Cross Country Marijuana Sting [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #19335344 - 12/28/13 02:01 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Barry Cooper is someone who made a living with drug sniffing canine's.
That's like asking Enron if they were committing fraud.

According to Barry Cooper odor's "permeate" through objects and defy the laws of molecular physics. Odor molecules that are many times larger then air can permeate through plastic easier and in larger quantity's then air can.  And sealed plastic which remains air tight for decade's,  somehow allow's odor molecules out that a canine can detect.

/facepalm

You fail science.

Dog's can detect drug's sure,  but not in sealed plastic.  Not in a gas tank of a car or hidden inside a PVC pipe that is properly sealed. 

And especially not in an airplane,  in suitcase's,  wrapped in plastic like is what "supposedly" happened here. Unless the pilots were lighting up or had a bag of it open.     


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