Posted on 06/19/2018 1:21:57 PM PDT by Mr.Unique
Narcotics Detective Kyle Willett made the 10-minute drive to a McDonald's drive-thru for sweet tea and cheeseburgers before returning to work — and doing something no one expected.
Alone in his white Chevrolet Tahoe — outside the UPS global shipping hub where he worked with an elite task force to intercept drug shipments — Willett tore the packing tape off a box, pried open a metal safe and stole piles of cash totaling about $40,000.
But the Louisville Metro Police veteran, well trained in exposing criminals' missteps, made an elementary mistake of his own.
He used his credit card for the $4.76 McDonald's meal and then forgot to remove the receipt from the fast-food bag he crumpled and stuffed inside the box before sending the package on its path to Oakland, California.
Willett didn't know that a West Coast drug interdiction task force anxiously awaited its delivery. A judge had already signed a search warrant to allow investigators to open the package, as it was expected to contain valuable evidence.
The box should have helped investigators snag a drug trafficker. Instead, it netted a cop. It also exposed questionable practices by two other detectives and for 19 months sidelined a task force charged with interrupting a major drug pipeline during the nation's worst drug crisis — blamed for more than 400 deaths in Louisville last year.
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Sad.
Your logic is faulty. Drugs are money makers because people buy them, seems demand is high given what I understand that crap costs. They are illegal because they harm society. Any further argument is moot.
“what two consenting adults do in privacy” so, dopers and meth heads heroin addicts and coke snorters hang tight at home until they are safe to move among us on the highways, on machinery etc? What reality (altered) do you operate in?
Odd that he's not invoking "his client's" status as a cop here. He is inadvertently implying that stealing from bad guys is ok. Try that yourself on a drug dealer or the next time you trip a bank robber and grab a bag of "his" money and see how the justice system treats you.
Odd that he's not invoking "his client's" status as a cop here. He is inadvertently implying that stealing from bad guys is ok. Try that yourself on a drug dealer or the next time you trip a bank robber and grab a bag of "his" money and see how the justice system treats you.
#22 I would have charged him with littering as well. That would have been another 6 months in jail...
I wish to have those cameras in my car when I have my car fixed. See what the mechanics break to increase the repair cost.
you wrote:
Drugs are illegal for specifically the reason that criminals can make money off if them. This is just another reason that drugs should not be illegal. If drugs were not illegal criminals couldn’t make money off of them.
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Did you get that line of reasoning from Planned Parenthood?
How about this: If abortions were not legal abortionists couldn’t make money off of them.
Anyway, there are lots of good reasons that drugs are regulated. I may not agree with all of them, but what you state is not even well stated, and it is not accurate.
“Some cops can help themselves to some of the valuables.”
It’s called asset forfeiture. Completely legal.
Drugs are illegal because we are trying to save certain people from themselves. Unfortunately, it has come to the point where saving druggies is making life miserable for everyone else. We steadfastly refuse to heed the lessons of Prohibition. I say make drugs legal and let the users knock themselves out. I am tired of living in a police state.
“””Drugs are illegal for specifically the reason that criminals can make money off if them. This is just another reason that drugs should not be illegal. If drugs were not illegal criminals couldn’t make money off of them”””
Yeah, that’s the reason drugs are illegal. /s
Yeah, IF the surveillance footage was still around.
Now, what most people don’t know, Walmart IS implementing a system that ties the video footage of your checkout to your receipt. Given that you can return in 90 days, I’d guess the video footage is kept at least that long, too.
Other stores are implementing this system.
In fact, one guy on Forensic Files bought something he used in a murder. They found him on the Wal*Mart footage buying the item.
Although I didn’t agree with everything Grant Jeffrey wrote, I always wanted to read his book “Surveillance Society” (IIRC). And that’s now 20 years out-of-date.
His license plate would have been captured, too. I bet.
Most businesses, except for financial institutions, retain security videos for only a short time.
I still don’t understand why the guy stuffed the McDonalds bag in the box. He didn’t want things to rattle around ??
“I still don’t understand why the guy stuffed the McDonalds bag in the box”
Probably an act of contempt. Like, “I got the money, here’s my garbage, you sh!tbag.
“Given that you can return in 90 days, I’d guess the video footage is kept at least that long, too.”
Yes, and it was 95 days since the crime when the police went to the local WalMart to see who used my mother’s stolen credit card. No video. We found out a different way, but the prosecutor wouldn’t charge without the video evidence.
Interesting. Thanks for passing along the info.
Most of the stores don’t have the system yet. It was begun a few years ago. One convenience store chain was briefing their employees on it a few years ago. They have leveled many old stores and built new ones to replace them.
Besides the new stores in my immediate area (two stores were closed in one city and a new store put up between them), I can think of 3 in about a 15 mile radius that were leveled and rebuilt in the last 6-12 months. All profitable stores, too. They were closed for months.
Reminds me of a line in Alice’s Restauant:
“We found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a big pile of garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it.”
Cops always have the best dope.
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Amen!
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