[Peach]

No way if they were going to re-sell the phones they were going to do so without the batteries. No way.

[dinasour]

No way if they were going to re-sell the phones they were going to do so without the batteries

The best explaination that I heard was there were taking the ID chips out of the phones and sending them, mostly to Europe.

That what if you want and untraceable phone, you don't need to be carrying around 50 phones. Just use one phone and change the chip after every use.

[txhurl]

The men also told authorities they separated the batteries from the phones.

“There’s a couple of reasons why you would do that,” said Page. “If you are using them as a bomb detonator, you don’t really need a battery in there, do you? And secondly, batteries can be used in methamphetamine production.”

No flippin' way were they to be re-sold.