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Thanks. yea, I hear you, but i thought that some people beat drug raps because they were not in possesion because they did not open the package. Just gonna do some more checking.
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This actually happened to a neighbor of mine.
"Butch" had his supplier Fedex him several ounces of cocaine. But what Butch didn't know was the Feds had already busted the supplier and were tracking all shipments. They were waiting for Butch when he went to the Fedex depot and picked up the box.
Their plan was to follow Butch home so they could catch him with the open box. But he stopped at the store on the way home, leaving the package in his car.
The agents got anxious and arrested Butch in the parking lot, with the still-sealed Fedex Box in his car. They also had a warrant to search his house, but didn't find anything there (he was out of stock) so the only evidence they had was the unopened box from Fedex.
The problem here is Butch could've claimed that he didn't know anything about it, and that he was merely responding to a delivery notice left by the Fedex driver (actually a federal agent) to pick up a box and had no idea who it was from or what was in it.
Now, this is a guy who has been busted a few times before for dealing cocaine, and he's caught with 6 or 8 [b]ounces[/b] in his car!!
Normally this would be a slam dunk, and Butch would get 20 years in prison. But the chances of a conviction were so slim that the Feds offered him a plea-bargain that included only probation and no jail time!!! Butch didn't want to take a chance on the trial and took the deal.
Had Butch been home when the DEA agent dressed in Fedex Blue delivered the box and taken it into his house, they would've waited an hour and kicked in the door, and Butch would've probably died of old age in prison. But they blew it.
Too bad - I actually thought we had gotten rid of the neighborhood drug dealer once and for all.