Posted on 02/01/2025 9:15:24 AM PST by BenLurkin
The schemes weren’t sophisticated. Hicox worked with other law enforcement officers to set up drug busts and conduct traffic stops of known drug dealers. They’d do the bust and skim money and drugs off the top or steal them from evidence and then give them to street-level dealers to sell for them. In one instance, they stole more than 1,000 pounds of weed from an evidence locker, claimed to have burned it, and sold it.
In one of the more bizarre schemes, Hickox stole a kilogram of cocaine from an evidence locker and replaced it with a brick he’d made in a 3D printer. He sprinkled the fake brick with real cocaine in an attempt to make it look real. This is the drug-stealing equivalent of a teenager bulking up their bed with stuffed animals in the hope their parents don’t notice they’ve snuck out.
When the police figured out what was going on and raided Hickox’s house, it was stocked with four weapons pulled from evidence lockers and marked for destruction as well as an illegally modified machine gun. Then they came upon his garage, which was marked by the sign “Gator’s Man Cave.”
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I’m curious about the “they/them” pronouns
There’s the War on Drugs in a nutshell.
With police like this who needs criminals?
Gee wiz, I would never have thought of doing any of those things if not for maybe 500 movies and TV shows.
“Hicox worked with other law enforcement officers”
thus the they. Not at all confusing.
Lots of people who do drug law enforcement end up giving in to the temptation for easy money.
This sort of thing was evident when I used to live in El Paso.
A classic MI episode had the synthetic cocaine machine as part of the plot.
Going all the way back to the days of Frank Serpico, an assignment to narcotics, whether state, local or federal, is one of the most tempting of jobs and will test every officer. Many fail, like these guys.
One county over from me, I remember when it broke......my first thought was damn dude...really?
He is undoubtedly going bump into people he put in prison.......that fear alone would have heat me from doing what he did.
Once again, the Bible is as relevant as always.
1 Timothy 6:10 NLT
[10] “For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.”
Words extinct from government lexicon: trust and “full faith and credit”.
“I’m curious about the “they/them” pronouns”
Hopefully Trump signs an EO banning that crap.
lol, I’m not sure how or why a 3D printer is required to swap out baggies. Wouldn’t it look and feel like plastic? Use powdered milk or baking soda or whatever those dealers use to dilute it for profit. It says that the fake stuff was sprinkled with the real stuff. Like in the film American Gangsters. “Just enough for the reagent test”. Or season one of HBO’s true detective. Or Brooklyn’s Finest. Off the top of my head.
I expect headlines to be somewhat exaggerated, but I really hate it when a headline says something that the body of the article doesn’t say.
No cocaine was “3-d printed”. A brick was 3-d printed and covered with cocaine.
Maybe he had a LOT of time on his hands to wait on the printer...
So he was Thick As A Brick?..................
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