Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

The Spore Depot
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Feedback and Administration > Shroomery News Service
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Doctor Charged With Altering Fingerprints of Drug Dealers
    #6903985 -

Doctor Charged With Altering Fingerprints of Drug Dealers
May 11, 2007 - Fox News

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Mexican physician performed plastic surgery to remove drug traffickers' fingerprints to help them avoid arrest, according to a federal indictment announced Friday.

Jose L. Covarrubias surgically removed the fingerprints of co-defendant Marc George and others implicated in a marijuana-dealing ring, U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Marino said.

Covarrubias, 49, of Nogales, Mexico, and Nogales, Ariz., was arrested Wednesday by federal drug agents. He was charged with conspiring to distribute more than a ton of marijuana in central Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and with being an accomplice and accessory after the fact to marijuana dealing.

The charges are the result of an investigation into a Harrisburg-based drug ring for which 34 people have been charged and 27 have pleaded guilty or are expected to plead guilty.

Federal prosecutors allege that the organization was headed by Rodney "Jamaican Mike" Hutchinson, 38, and sent money by courier to Tucson, Ariz., to buy Mexican marijuana. The ring then allegedly sold it in central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, New York and elsewhere.

Covarrubias allegedly removed George's fingerprints sometime in the summer of 2005. George, 42, of Jamaica, has been indicted for money laundering and drug trafficking in connection with the same investigation.

Pennsylvania State Police seized $391,000 from a vehicle George was driving in May 2004, according to the indictment. The following February, police stopped George in New Jersey and seized $351,000 in cash, it said.

The indictment did not say how the fingerprints were removed, and an expert with the Latent Print Certification Board said it would be difficult, if not impossible, to successfully remove all the ridge detail from someone's hands.

"I assume that it could occur, but I've not heard of it occurring," said Lyla Thompson, the print board's chairwoman who works at the Johnson County crime lab near Kansas City, Kan. "It would be a pretty extensive procedure."

Covarrubias, Hutchinson, George and five others were named in a superseding indictment issued by a grand jury in Harrisburg on Wednesday.

It could not immediately determined if Covarrubias has a lawyer. Telephone messages left for lawyers for Hutchinson and George were not immediately returned.

Trial in the case is currently scheduled for August.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Doctor Charged With Altering Fingerprints of Drug Dealers [Re: veggie]
    #6904090 -

pretty sweet wonder how he did it? :confused:


--------------------
"In the land of the limbless the one-armed drummer is king"

Sidewalk Chemist

First Time Tripping My Story

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Doctor Charged With Altering Fingerprints of Drug Dealers [Re: thongster]
    #6904369 -

shit, anyone can do it, heat up a frying pan on high and stick your hands on it.

or continuously cut your finger tips.


--------------------
Dr :ronpaul: says to stop trying to treat the side-effects of big government and focus on the core issues. End the Federal Reserve/audit the gold reserves at Fort Knox, abolish the IRS, end all wars and occupancies, stop the building of an empire that will inevitably fail, and cut all unconstitutional federal programs. Put the power back in the peoples' hands by ending this nanny-state.

Edited by highdroponics (05/11/07 10:33 PM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Doctor Charged With Altering Fingerprints of Drug Dealers [Re: highdroponics]
    #6905352 -

highdroponics said:
shit, anyone can do it, heat up a frying pan on high and stick your hands on it.

or continuously cut your finger tips.


...or dip your fingertips in acid... but I've always heard that they grow back so this solution would not be a permanent one, unless I heard wrong...


--------------------


Come on breakthrough with me...such wonders terrify the soul...it's real no need to question...knowledge infiltrates the host

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Doctor Charged With Altering Fingerprints of Drug Dealers [Re: JackthaTripper]
    #6905622 -

I've always been told prints always grow back.


--------------------
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

"Everything that we know and understand comes down to perception, and by altering this perception we shake everything we know. All that you and I can know and understand is what we can see smell hear think touch and so on, and when something like mushrooms or salvia alters this steady perception, it can break reality permanently." - Dihnekis

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy

Feedback and Administration > Shroomery News Service
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Let's play drug dealers motamanM 3,859 13 02/07/09 04:30 AM
by IdeLOLogies
* Dragnet could round up 26 drug dealers motamanM 1,273 0 06/24/04 05:40 AM
by motaman
* Club-drug dealers face doubled fines motamanM 3,394 3 04/10/03 02:44 AM
by Sheepish
* Byron Bay man charged over $45m drug haul AnnoA 1,953 3 04/27/04 05:30 PM
by motaman
* DEA Retraction of Pain FAQ Angers, Scares Doctors and Patients 12/3/04 motamanM 3,835 4 12/06/04 03:34 PM
by Asante
* Drug War Addiction motamanM 3,193 1 05/12/03 11:03 AM
by Anonymous
* How the Govt Lost the Drug War in Cyberspace TinTree 4,863 5 10/23/04 02:48 AM
by derx
* UC Berkeley students arrested in drug raid after UCB senior's mysterious death daba 8,039 13 11/09/04 05:00 PM
by Middleman

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
2,086 topic views. 0 members, 21 guests and 5 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.03 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 16 queries.