Friend was raided by the DEA

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really this is crazy! I always wondered such kind of things can only happen in India.
 
if only drugs where legal, kids wouldn't have to die trying to get high on bath salts. I hate to break it to you, but your friend knew exactly what he was doing.

With that said, he needs to get a damn good attorney
 
dmnEPC said:
if only drugs where legal, kids wouldn't have to die trying to get high on bath salts. I hate to break it to you, but your friend knew exactly what he was doing.

With that said, he needs to get a damn good attorney
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Pink Himalayan salt isn't bath salts though - it's just some fancy health food shit
 
dmnEPC said:
if only drugs where legal, kids wouldn't have to die trying to get high on bath salts. I hate to break it to you, but your friend knew exactly what he was doing.

With that said, he needs to get a damn good attorney
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According to him, the salts he's been importing was this : Himalayan salt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's big stuff with eco/green types and has a decent margin here in the US.
 
From his blog:

"I hired the best rated (and most expensive) lawyer in town to handle “negotiations” with the DEA and the USDOJ Attorney’s office. This guy is going to give me the best legal defense money can buy"

His lawyer might be best rated but he ain't worth "two salts", no pun intended, if he didn't tell his client to shut his fucking mouth and only talk to him & told his client it's ok to make this blog post...

Basically, he just gave his confession & more in that post "What really happened:"

The phrase is true... the will indict a ham sandwich.

With his online-tell-all, your idiot "friend" *cough* *cough* just made it easier for the DOJ to get a conviction or an easy plea.

Plain & simple... he's fucked. Guess it's time to start singing like a birdie.

He shoulda call Saul Goodman.

It's prob to late for him to watch this but he'll learn something for the "next" time.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc"]Dont Talk to Police - YouTube[/ame]
 
dmnEPC said:
How well do you actually know this guy? Just got done reading his "manifesto" and something doesn't seem right. I dont know what it is, but something is off. Good luck bro, but I am exiting stage left.
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Grew up with him, have done a pretty reasonable amount of business with him. Really don't have a reason not to trust him.
 
Importing large amounts of salts from China he resells @ 250% margins, house had a weigh scale, $80k cash, and several guns. He also mentioned doing a lot of business via bitcoin, so I'm going to assume he's missing out on telling us he sold via Silk Road instead of just eBay.

I think your friend may have known this day was going to come.
 
List of things never to do:

#1 - Post online anything related to current or upcoming legal issues.
#2 - Try to show my dominance in the wild by raping a grizzly bear.
#3 - Go bareback in Thailand.
#4 - Get into the mystery salts import/export game.
#5 - See #1 and #4. But also #2 and #3.
 
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They can test drugs pretty quickly these days - enough to know if something is rock salt or not, anyway. Himalayan salt is literally marketing speak for rock salt. NaCl. A pill testing kit will tell you if there's any one of tons of illegal substances in something within seconds. The idea of a Chinese supplier "accidentally" sending Methylone instead of Himalayan Salt or whatever is quite laughable, due to the a) differences in risk and b) differences in price. It's like me accidentally sending someone gold bars instead of copper coins.

Your friend is now running away from the police, publishing blog posts about what's going on and trying to get media coverage, etc.. Describing the DEA as a "criminal gang" on the blog and who knows what else isn't exactly going to help his defense, either.

There's something really dodgy about this story. If it was rock salt, why wouldn't you just hand yourself in, explain what it was, and let them do their tests? If I was pulled over and arrested for cocaine possession and all I had was a bag of sugar, I wouldn't run away from the police, because I'm not an idiot. I'd wait until it was all cleared up, THEN write a blog post about my ordeal and the ridiculousness of our drug laws.

Your friend was trying to import large quantities of scheduled substances and got caught.
 
Your friend is a fucking moron for spilling his guts on a blog post. Especially that 250% profit margin shit. That isn't going to help. This is all going to be used as evidence by the US attorney handling the case.

The only thing that hotshot lawyer is going to help your friend with, is with the plea bargain that your friend's lawyer will be negotiating with the Justice Department because your friend is going to plead guilty for something one way or another.

Also I have a feeling his criminal defense lawyer isn't aware that his client went rogue and posted that shit in a blog.
 
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Open wide.... here come the feds!
 
Creating that blog was an extremely bad idea. I'm having trouble believing the best lawyer in town thought it was a good idea.

And your friend better get his shit together. I personally know 2 guys of a ring of 4 that was busted by the DEA for manufacturing and distributing synthetic quasi-legal bathsalt/artificial marijuana or some bullshit. At first they were aggressive about maintaining what they were doing was 100% legal.

The last I heard is that they're jockeying for position to get to be the one who testifies against the others. They are facing literally spending the prime decades of their lives serving a federal sentence.

On the surface Himalayan salt is a better defense than "we were selling legal recreational products", but that doesn't matter if prosecution finds what they're looking for. (And a money counters? Really?)

Calling the government scumbags on a website won't help and accusing the government of being afraid that bitcoin will replace the USD is practically plagiarism from late night WickedFire, not sure what that has to do his innocence.

I wish Justin good luck, but does anyone else think that website is a potentially disastrous idea? The "what really happened" thing resembles what we read after the guy goes to jail, not before. There's a reason why we don't often read a defendant's testimony before charges are issued or dropped.
 
mituozo said:
There's something really dodgy about this story. If it was rock salt, why wouldn't you just hand yourself in, explain what it was, and let them do their tests? If I was pulled over and arrested for cocaine possession and all I had was a bag of sugar, I wouldn't run away from the police, because I'm not an idiot. I'd wait until it was all cleared up, THEN write a blog post about my ordeal and the ridiculousness of our drug laws.
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That's a good fucking point.

I was on my way home from my office when I noticed 10+ federal agents outside my home, talking to my neighbors, and making me out to be a terrorist of some sort in my neighborhood. I kept driving, parked my truck at a friends house and took a taxi to safe hiding a couple hours away.
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I think if I saw DEA agents standing outside my house (and I wasn't involved in drugs) I'd go to them to find out what the hell was going on, not sneak away and take a taxi to my secret hideout.
 
If there are no banned substances in what was seized then he will be fine. The .gov will test it and let him free if it really is just salt. But the fact that your friend says that there might have been a mix up in the order tells me that there will be banned substances.

Methylone is some messed up stuff. Its a good thing that he didn't sell the "mixed up" product to someone just trying to season their food.

Good luck to him but, like everyone else is saying, he knew what he was doing. He needs to take it like a man and quit being a pussy, IMO.
 
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