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  • 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.