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Tip for Darknet Drug Lords: Don't Wear Latex Gloves to the Post Office

posted by on Wednesday March 22 2017, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the he-didn't-want-to-get-his-hands-dirty dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Delivery is the weakest link in the "dark web" drug trade: the postal habits of a large-scale trader have led to his undoing.

Chukwuemeka Okparaeke is accused of dealing in very nasty stuff: Fentanyl, a high-strength synthetic opioid the Centre for Disease Control says is 50 times the potency of heroin and was responsible for nearly 10,000 deaths in the US in 2015.

Okparaeke may have been a capable Tor user, but his logistical clue needed work: he was caught not because someone linked him to his handle ("Fentmaster", on a site called the AlphaBay Marketplace), but because wearing latex gloves while depositing large numbers of packages at US post offices got the attention of staff.

He was seen at several post offices in the Middletown area of New York, and because he was bulk-buying priority delivery stamps, staff had also viewed his driver's licence.

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Aiwendil on Wednesday March 22 2017, @10:10AM (1 child)

    by Aiwendil (531) on Wednesday March 22 2017, @10:10AM (#482632) Journal

    Where you can't wear latex gloves without being suspected of a crime.

    Well, that is a case of stupidity should be painful.

    He could just have worn thin cotton gloves over the latex gloves and glanced at his hand and simple stated "eczema flared up" when he noticed they noticed the hand, or he could just have worn the latex gloves and stated "I'm a bit hypochondriac and have a bad day with it".

    Or he could have used one of the several discreet techniques that exist to prevent leaving fingerprints not involving gloves.

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  • (Score: 1) by nekomata on Wednesday March 22 2017, @10:42AM

    by nekomata (5432) on Wednesday March 22 2017, @10:42AM (#482637)

    > Or he could have used one of the several discreet techniques that exist to prevent leaving fingerprints not involving gloves.

    Such as ... ?