Hi everyone,
a few years ago I had police searching my house and as painful as it was I thought I just make the best out of it and tell other people my experience. Maybe some of you might profit from it.
Background story: I was active buyer on the original Silkroad for about a month. I liked buying a variety of drugs and just try them. Most of them I tried once and I wasn't too eager to repeat. After months on inactivity I realized I still had some Bitcoins in there, just enough to buy me 2 g of weed. So I ordered the weed, smoked it and that was it. I didn't have any other drugs and limited myself to a bit of alcohol. A female friend asked me one day if I want a branch of her Marihuana plant. She had a very shitty outdoor grow going with more leafs than buds. But what the heck, I could at least make some extract. I got like 30 g of branches, stems, leafs and a few buds in a grocery bag which I just tossed in a corner. That was on a Monday. On Thursday evening about 7 pm police knocked on the door. I opened, they had a search warrant. Because I was busy at work I didn't even touch the weed since I got it.
Pretty much first thing they asked me: "Do you know why we're here?" -- "ehm no" "DO YOU OWN A CAR?" -- "what? ah...y-yeah" "DO YOU HAVE A STORE ROOM IN THE BASEMENT? -- "y-yeah" (I was living in a multi apartment building back then) SHIT...I shouldn't have said anything. They asked me more questions but from now on I just said that I didn't want to say any more.
Of course they tried to do their good cop bad cop thing and tried to be talkative. I refused and just sat in the corner, looking at them searching my whole apartment. Because I answered the other 2 questions with a "yes" they also searched my basement and my car. They didn't find anything in the car but in the basement they found some growing equipment which I used a few years ago for a simple weed grow.
In my appartment they found of course the bag with the shitty weed (1.16g pure THC total) and some papers etc....
Reason for the search warrant: The vendor I bought those 2 g of weed from Silkroad had a fucking book, writing down all his customers. He got fucked because he was also a fucking meth head and of course police found this nice little book with my address.
In the end I had to pay a total of 2000€ (fine and to keep my driver license)
Lessons learned for myself: - Never ever order stuff to your own address - Heck, I could have just added another Surname on my post box for those few days I expected the order. I was living with 30 other people in a big house...It could have been everyone and nobody would have cared - Even if they shout at you, stay fucking calm. Don't say a word (which I eventually did)
- Places they didn't look: Inside books, computer, speakers, food stuff (cereals...) and flower pots.
They even found a fine scale and some zip bags but because of my growing equipment I was charged with production of marihuana and not dealing. I don't know which one is worse...
So yeah, maybe this is helpful information for some of you. Obviously I'm not a drug kingpin and they didn't search too intensive. I was of course fucking paranoid afterwards and hid my few g of weed inside a bag of flour.
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I'm really sorry you had to go through this, but why would anyone use their actual address? Don't most people use their local post office for this kind of thing?
Granted, I'm not sure what would've happened if the same thing happened and the cops traced it back to a P.O. box, but still. I'm about to do this for the first time and my address is going nowhere online. Fake name, separate e-mail address, VPN, etc. Hopefully those calm down my anxiety about doing this in the first place
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