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Officer's good looks a trap, court finds
Palm Beach Post ^ | Jan 22, 2004

Posted on 01/23/2004 12:27:21 PM PST by george wythe

Just how handsome is Mike Nahum?

So irresistible that an otherwise law-abiding West Palm Beach hairdresser went against his better judgment and bought Nahum some drugs at a gay bar, in hopes that they could "party" together.

So head-turning that a female Broward County judge cheerfully allowed her approval of his looks to go into the court record.

And, sadly for Nahum, an undercover Fort Lauderdale police officer, too good-looking for his own good.

After officially ruling Nahum "a very attractive man," Broward Circuit Judge Susan Lebow then ruled that his exceptional good looks constituted an entrapment for Julio Blanco, the hairdresser.

Blanco could have gone to prison for 15 years if he had been convicted of drug trafficking for buying the drugs for Nahum, who arrested him two weeks after they met in a Fort Lauderdale bar.

Lebow dismissed the drug-trafficking case against Blanco. The 4th District Court of Appeal this week agreed with Lebow's decision.

Oh yes, Nahum's looks have also made him a star on the curriculum of Bruce Rogow, criminal law professor at Nova Southeastern University in Davie.

Rogow sees the case as a textbook example of entrapment: The police officer has to entice the suspect to do something illegal that the suspect would not otherwise have done.

It is hard for a defendant to prove entrapment, but Blanco's case had all the right ingredients.

Working undercover in 2002, Nahum was looking for suspected drug-dealing at the bar. He approached Blanco, a self-described "lonely homosexual man," drinking alone. Three times, Nahum asked Blanco whether he could buy cocaine in the bar. Three times, Blanco refused.

Finally, thinking that drugs might lead to a sexual encounter, Blanco found someone selling crystal methamphetamine in the bathroom. He bought it, with $60 Nahum gave him.

Rogow thinks it is quite possible that Nahum was chosen for the assignment precisely because he was so attractive.

"If they had sent someone ugly, the defendant might not have succumbed," said Rogow. "You want the best player for your side, but legally you're moving into an area of outrageous police conduct. You're adding an element designed to allure."

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To: AdamSelene235
I can see why the guy thought he was gay.
21 posted on 01/23/2004 12:48:06 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Modernman
I knew a guy who's stepmother was a DEA agent. She was an alcoholic and was addicted to laxitives. Before she sought help she was up to something 60 laxitives a day.
22 posted on 01/23/2004 12:48:10 PM PST by DFW_Repub
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To: george wythe; dix; humblegunner; antivenom; bobbyd; eastforker; Flyer; Humidston; olliemb; ...
Here is the only current picture that I could find of the handsome youthfull Officer Mike Nahum.



23 posted on 01/23/2004 12:49:52 PM PST by Eaker (Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. - Lazarus Long)
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To: Arpege92
You can't expect the females to make an honest opinion about this without the picture of the cop! What's hot for one woman, is not necessarily hot for another....so show the picture!!!!


24 posted on 01/23/2004 12:49:59 PM PST by hang 'em (Algore invented the low flush toilet and for that alone may he burn in hell for all eternity.)
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These two DEA agents tried to entice me to buy drugs for them.

Lucky for me, my wife showed up at the right moment.


25 posted on 01/23/2004 12:50:49 PM PST by george wythe
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To: george wythe
We want a picture!!
26 posted on 01/23/2004 12:52:22 PM PST by trussell (Troll hunter extraordinaire)
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To: george wythe
That Hansel, so hot right now. Hansel.
27 posted on 01/23/2004 12:53:41 PM PST by Steel Wolf ("Inveniemus viam aut faciemus" - We will either find a way or make one.)
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To: george wythe
Finally, thinking that drugs might lead to a sexual encounter, Blanco found someone selling crystal methamphetamine in the bathroom.

I thought homosexuals were all in healty, steady, monogamous relationships, and that's why they want the right to get married?

(/sarcasm)

28 posted on 01/23/2004 12:55:27 PM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("By all that we hold dear on this Earth I bid you stand, men of the West!")
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To: Steel Wolf

29 posted on 01/23/2004 1:02:53 PM PST by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
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To: george wythe
I've had problems like this also, being so damn good looking is a CURSE, I tell you
30 posted on 01/23/2004 1:03:27 PM PST by bigfootbob
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To: StolarStorm
Did you still get the ticket or get cuffed?

I got cuffed, but it had nothing to do with getting arrested :-)

31 posted on 01/23/2004 1:03:54 PM PST by Modernman ("The details of my life are quite inconsequential...." - Dr. Evil)
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To: AdamSelene235
Is Clark splitting the rainbow vote with Dean?

I thought Dean had all the civil unionists on his side.

32 posted on 01/23/2004 1:11:37 PM PST by george wythe
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To: hang 'em

33 posted on 01/23/2004 1:18:05 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: bigfootbob
I've had problems like this also, being so damn good looking is a CURSE, I tell you

I hear you, man! That, combined with my height of 6' 2" wins 'em over every time! After I graduated from college, the woman I was seeing at the time rattled off a long list of women who told her they would have loved to have been asked out by me. Needless to say, I was shocked at the time! Even today I have absolutely no trouble hooking up with women. Life isn't always fair, but it's been to my advantage!

34 posted on 01/23/2004 1:18:26 PM PST by AlaskaErik
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To: AlaskaErik
I know what you mean. I've been married 26 years and I bet 90% of the wife's friends and colleagues have hit on me over the years. It's not funny, because several have gotten mad at the refusal and have tried to punish me in ways only women can devise.
35 posted on 01/23/2004 1:25:34 PM PST by bigfootbob
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To: subterfuge
This is so unbelievably ridiculous, but it begs the question: DID THE GUY WHO SOLD THE DOPE TO GUY IN THE BATHROOM GET ARRESTED?

Don't know, but if not, it raises a high probability that the restroom seller was a narcotics cop also, or a protected dealer/informant. Narcs often use this method to entrap and convict uninformed marks. If this fails they just lie and plant the drugs as evidence. The court is usually kept in the dark about everyone around the mark being a cop. This is why many narcs have such productive arrest records but the amount of drugs available keeps rising, the cops supply the drugs and then manipulate fringe druggies or innocents.

Same scenario was used in a high school recently with a beautiful female narc plant promising sex for drugs to schoolboys and directing them to a male narc plant in the school to buy the drugs. None of the schoolboys could think beyond the sex to ask why the broad didn't just buy the drugs herself since she knew who sold them.

36 posted on 01/23/2004 1:26:43 PM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Steel Wolf
That movie should have been half as long as it was and it would have been great.
37 posted on 01/23/2004 1:27:57 PM PST by GraniteStateConservative ("Howard Dean is incontrovertible proof that God is on Bush's side in the 2004 election"- Dick Morris)
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To: Navy Patriot
Same scenario was used in a high school recently with a beautiful female narc plant promising sex for drugs to schoolboys and directing them to a male narc plant in the school to buy the drugs. None of the schoolboys could think beyond the sex to ask why the broad didn't just buy the drugs herself since she knew who sold them.

That's very disturbing.

That's not the kind of America I want to pass on to my children.

It's bad enough to raise children with so many temptations around; now we have the cops tempting our children to commit drug crimes.

38 posted on 01/23/2004 1:30:30 PM PST by george wythe
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To: george wythe
Looks are irrelevent to this obvious case of entrapment.
39 posted on 01/23/2004 1:31:46 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: hang 'em
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.....geez, ask an honest question....get a smart a$$ reply! ;-}
40 posted on 01/23/2004 1:35:20 PM PST by Arpege92
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