Just an example of a controlled delivery in my area.

[stang50]

I was reading the local paper yesterday and came across this. Just found it intetresting, never read about a controlled delivery happening around me. It was a large amount of cocain, but just showing how the postal system works. Im really curious as to what made the package suspicious?


Home > Bethlehem Area News > Breaking News
Bethlehem man facing charges after signing for package of cocaine
Published: Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:45 PM Updated: Friday, January 28, 2011, 11:55 PM
By Sara K. Satullo | The Express-Times

A Bethlehem man is facing drug charges after he signed for a package containing a DVD player Thursday that police knew had $25,000 to $30,000 worth of cocaine hidden inside.

Carmelo J. Sanchez-Agosto Jr., 30, of the 1800 block of Oberly Street, faces numerous drug-related charges following the sting, officials said. He was arraigned Thursday and sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $250,000 straight bail.

The inspection arm of the U.S. Postal Service contacted city police Wednesday about a suspicious express mail parcel bound for the 900 block of East Sixth Street in the city, according to court records. Postal inspectors got a federal search warrant to open the package and found a DVD player containing 370 grams of cocaine hidden in two plastic baggies, records say.

Bethlehem police Lt. Mark DiLuzio said that amount of cocaine has a street value of $25,000 to $30,000.

Authorities removed the cocaine from the package and replaced it with a smaller sample along with sham cocaine. Then at 12:16 p.m. Thursday, a postal inspector posing as a letter carrier delivered the package, records say.

Sanchez-Agosto showed up in a car, signed for the package and quickly left, records say. He was stopped by police shortly after, and police also found 16 bags of cocaine in his pants pockets, records state.

Police searched his Oberly Street home and seized hundreds of small plastic bags, rubber bands, a cutting agent, suspected marijuana and two loaded handguns, records state.

 

[Zero V]

Interesting, but that is worth the time and effort for the police. 30K of drugs... 200 bucks of steroids is not lol.

As for what made it suspicious, thats interesting. Cocaine can be detected by drug sniffing dogs easily, I wonder what other methods they may use as post masters... But it is plausible that he was already under surveillance for possible drug activity so his mail was being watched.

Are there machines that can detect the chemical trace? I know they were working on machines that can smell drugs...

You now in Vietnam they had a modification for rifles that could smell the enemies? Didnt work well because it picked up animal urine and everything else, but fascinating none the less.

 

[mich29]

they probably got a tip or had been watching him for awhile

 

[nerdalert]

I doubt that was his first shipment.

 

[Kane_Red_Machine]

I doubt that was his first shipment.

it could happen aswell in the first shippment, it depend which kind of scan theey use to analyse the pakages.

for example with rapiscan 620 serie, anything could appear suspect for the opperator.

 

[Massive123]

You can't trust police reports anyway. They don't need warrants, they break rules, they do whatever they want. Who's gonna stop them?

 

[Zero V]

You can't trust police reports anyway. They don't need warrants, they break rules, they do whatever they want. Who's gonna stop them?

My mother who is in the paralegal field, what stops them is all the law suites they get raped with plus losing their cases if they break said rules.

Even murderers have been let free before because evidence was obtained unconstitutionally.

You would be surprised, just like with the Army red tape can be pretty entangling.

 

[Massive123]

My mother who is in the paralegal field, what stops them is all the law suites they get raped with plus losing their cases if they break said rules.

Even murderers have been let free before because evidence was obtained unconstitutionally.

You would be surprised, just like with the Army red tape can be pretty entangling.

theres truth to that but face the facts my friend...

they protect themselves before anyone else. patriot act dont mean shit.

 

[Zero V]

theres truth to that but face the facts my friend...

they protect themselves before anyone else. patriot act dont mean shit.

Agreed. Our government is out to protect no one other than themselves, but by that very action they are more than willing to throw the careers and lives of officers into the trash to do so. So officers will usually be a little weary considering how many are ending up on suspensions or being relieved of duty left and right nowadays.

I am not trying to give a sense of false security, but out of roughly 311,000,000 Americans a persons couple vials of test is not that big of an issue to them. Less and less officers are even worried about the little things anymore. Why? They dont get paid enough to harass people over stupid crap as much as they used to. Also it helps not to have local cops that are D-bags. Some follow a "dont ask dont tell" policy with people lol. That being said, you can get busted. Nothing is fool proof. Though its more likely its from someone pissed off that his wife wont give him any and they just want to make someone else's life miserable as well lol. It does happen to small timers, though from my understanding it used to happen more often but now happens alot less. Surprisingly I think the trillions of dollars in deficit are actually starting to take its toll on our federal bodies and they are all getting squeezed.

My question is, why have we as a community(the BBing community IMO has grown quite alot) not formed a group to lobby for the declassification ,or at least reclassification of the scheduling of steroids ans an A-III? An A-IV makes sense...

At least to the rest of the world where it is that or legal anyways. One day those guilty of corporate greed will pay for their crimes.

Maybe I just live near cool law enforcement? Besides, personally my house is free of crap.