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  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    At the rally, Neo-Nazis raged against minorities and immigrants—whom racists accuse of harming the country. That made it all the more ironic that Von Nukem was arrested on March 17, 2021 while entering the United States from Mexico. On his way into Arizona, Customs and Border Patrol agents discovered 15 kilograms of fentanyl pills hidden behind the seats and floor compartment of his 2019 Nissan Pathfinder.

    According to law enforcement records, Von Nukem quickly admitted that he had been paid 4,000 Mexican pesos (around $215) to smuggle the pills into the country.

    Why the fuck would a guy with five kids smuggle 15kg of fentanyl across a border for $215?

    • Azarova [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      215$ to move 15kg of fent???? i don't know anything but that seems wildly low for such an insane amount of fent, what a dumbass.

      anyway, lol :crab-party: :rip-bozo: :crab-party:

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I honestly feel they must have been blackmailing him for something, my money is on child prostitution or something else sick that lots of tourist :lmayo: love to get up to (like why the fuck was he in Mexico in the first place!?).

        • happybadger [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It has to be some kind of blackmail or something similar. Not only why was he in Mexico, but why would the cartels trust him with...

          https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/thirty-two-kilos-fentanyl-worth-288-million-seized-and-two-dominican-nationals-arrested

          Thirty-Two Kilos of Fentanyl Worth $28.8 Million

          like $14m worth of drugs.

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            God damn, yeah it really sounds like there's something to the arrangement not being brought up in the article

          • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Couple things to keep in mind about such reports in general:

            • Cops always provide worth of the drugs based on street prices for individual sales, so these are always grossly inflated. Bulk prices are much, much lower than the retail price users end up paying after all the middlemen have taken their cut. But cops don't want to give realistic numbers, they want such busts to sound like heroic victories, so instead of saying "they would have sold the entire shipment off for an estimated 2 millions", which would be realisitc, they go with the 28.8 million they're worth at the retail level, even though no single dealer involved with the distribution ever sees that much money from the sale.

            • Amerika bases sentences on total weight of drugs. Other jurisdictions determine purity and charge people with the actual amount they had in their possession, the US just dumps the stuff on a scale and runs with that, which means that if you have a couple barrels of lab waste containing trace amounts of LSD, you get charged with possession of a completely absurd 93kg of LSD like it happened to Pickart when they busted his laboratory.

            The 15 kg of fent pills we're talking about here still are a lot, ofc. The 250$ he allegedly got paid for the smuggling sound way too little for an amount that will get you 20 years in supermax prison. Just putting some context out there for how the cops like to talk such busts up to make it sound as if they're winning the drug war.

        • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          There have been leaked discord logs where nazis try to groom kids or talk about wanting to abuse them. He likely got caught trying to find CP online and was forced to sell fent

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        If sold point by point for street value this would be close to half a million. It was probably destined for bulk distro so it'd be way less there but still enough to buy a house.

        • cosecantphi [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Are we sure it was actually 15kg of pure fentanyl? It seems a hell of a lot more likely he was carrying 15kg of powder that contained some fentanyl but had already been cut to shit

          • happybadger [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            It only mentions pills in the article so it's probably cut to some degree.

            https://www.avenuesrecovery.com/understanding-addiction/fentanyl-addiction/fentanyl-on-the-street/#2

            The street price of one gram of fentanyl is between $150 to $200;

            150 per gram x 15000 grams is a low end estimate of about $2.25m street value.

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      2 years ago

      lol what a fuckin dumbass. Bet he thought it was easy money because :us-foreign-policy:

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        See I don't think it was easy money. He lives in Missouri. The drive or flight to Texas, let alone to Mexico, would probably cost more than $215. There's something more to that.

    • NPa [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Hey how does all this (insert drug du jour) keep getting into the country and culling the marginalized population? :cia: :who-did-this:

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Lost 2 friends to it this year. One was my best friend and it's actually the anniversary today. It's no fucking joke.

        • NPa [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I'm so sorry to hear that my friend. I can't imagine how many lives have been fucked up by the opioid epidemic(s). :meow-hug:

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            I mean this with the full gravityof the word, its genocide. These are just my close friends, the aquaintances and friends of friends are in the tens.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      My initial guess would be that he was paid a lot more than that and either agreed to cop to 215$ because there's some legalese connected to it, or bc he's trying to hide the rest of the proceeds.

      But it's also just as likely that he's a dumbass, or that the cops are lying (they are cops, after all).

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I'm so curious about additional compensation. If the cartels didn't have something over him, you couldn't pay me half the street value to risk smuggling in a life sentence worth of fentanyl. Trying to rip them off when he has a big family on some kind of rural property would be too stupid for a Nazi. There's something really juicy to the story which isn't even in the court papers:

        https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.1264319/gov.uscourts.azd.1264319.2.0.pdf

        The first part of his indictment says he also conspired to distribute 400g in Arizona. That's a big gulf in scale though. 100mcg is what's prescribed in tablet form.

        • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          maybe he gets health insurance through the cartel and that doesn't count as payment for tax prosecution purposes

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          The first part of his indictment says he also conspired to distribute 400g in Arizona.

          It says "400g or more", which most likely refers to the total 15kg. 400g could just be the cutoff at which "a fuckhuge amount that can get you life in prison" starts when it comes to fentanyl. They always refer to "400g or more" in these exact words in the first part where they describe what constitutes the offense and only to the 15kg in the second part where they refer to the "basis of the offense", and the date for both is the same day. So i'd say they're talking about the same crime in both parts of the document.

          • happybadger [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            You seem to be right: https://www.fordham.edu/student-life/deans-of-students-and-student-life/student-handbook/university-regulations/drug-free-campus-guidelines/federal-trafficking-penalties-for-schedules-i-ii-iii-iv-and-v-except-marijuana/

            For the substances/schedules and larger amounts:

            Fentanyl (Schedule IV): 400 g or more mixture

            Fentanyl Analogue (Schedule I): 100 g or more mixture

            First Offense: Not less than 10 years, and not more than life. If death or serious injury, not less than 20 years, or more than life. Fine of not more than $10 million if an individual, $50 million if not an individual

            Fentanyl (Schedule I): 40-399 g mixture

            First Offense: Not less than 5 years, and not more than 40 years. If death or serious injury, not less than 20 years or more than life. Fine of not more than $5 million if an individual, $25 million if not an individual.

            So the 400g is a federal sentencing threshold that doubles the penalty.

            • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              Yeah, i later saw something ITT about another case involving kg amounts were the "400g or more" thing was also mentioned.

              It's worth noting that with pills or especially patches, it's not that hard to get over the 400g threshold, as the US counts total weight of the drugs, nor weight of the active ingredient. It's easily something that affects small time dealers when you calculate it like that, which ofc has always been the purpose of this policy.

    • booty [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      $215? Really? What the fuck? Are we sure he wasn't lying to try to get some kind of sympathy or something? Who the hell takes a complicated illegal job for $215?

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Either a dumbass or someone who thought he could cut and run with the fent (or my other theory which is he's a pedo being blackmailed for doing sick shit in Mexico). Either way another krakkka down!

        • booty [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah I was wondering if maybe he was thinking "sick, free fent" or something. There being some kind of blackmail would fit too, though.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Pro tip, that is a No Country for Old Men idea. You cannot cut and run with that much. That's like enough to kill a town

          • happybadger [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I could take on Anton Chigurh but maybe I'm just built differently. Guess that's why I'm not dead and this guy is.

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah but I don't think this dude was that smart, he was transporting the weight of a child in fentanyl for barely $250

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              I'm just saying if you really need money, do something else, but if it's your only option, take the $250

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Or they paid him 10k in cash and the cops / ICE / DEA agents pocketed all of that and $215 is simply what he had in his wallet.

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You know the meme about selling oregano to rich white kids for $50 a gram and saying it's top shelf kush? This is just the Nazi version of it

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The first time I bought cannabis at 17, I tried to give the guy 50 euros on the street. Just out in the open like I'm buying a gyro. He gave me about a gram of a strain he only called "orange", bottom of the barrel mids I wouldn't buy for $40/oz in Colorado, and then insisted on coming into the apartment I was staying at. I smoked it but didn't inhale properly so I only got buzzed while he smoked the entire gram and screamed at a football match on the television in Romanian. Outside of hitchhiking with a guy who offered a really strong vape which made me dissociate from reality, it's still my worst cannabis experience. Just pure anxiety next to a clearly armed professional drug dealer who's mad at Hungary.

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      The delicious irony that a mascot of white nationalism smuggled what was probably Chinese sourced drugs from Mexico in a Japanese vehicle.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They've always been like that. Post WWII American Nazis especially are in to all sorts of shit that makes you raise an eyebrow and be like "Wait what? Isn't this supposed to be against what you guys believe?"

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      What a dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb idiot. 15 kg is A LOOOOT of fent. That shit is measured in the microgram. $200 is a hilariously small amount to accept for that kind of thing.