Snapchat Drug Dealing & Cop Stings
Snapchat is not exclusively the denizen of younger people. Police follow the trail of alleged and actual criminal activity,?including when it happens on Snapchat, other social media, and anywhere else on the Internet. Do not be lulled into any false impression of online anonymity, where you are easily tracked through a unique Internet Protocol / IP address. Therefore, do nothing online that you would not do in front of your parents and a police officer. With Snapchat alone,?I have recently defended clients charged with?drug dealing?on that social media platform, and with posing as a teenager to successfully convince slews of teenage women under eighteen to fully disrobe online (thus getting him prosecuted federally for child pornography production.)
How to Avoid Police Stings On Snapchat And Beyond?
The simple answer for avoiding getting caught in police stings on Snapchat and beyond is to avoid committing crimes in the first place (which is never to say that all arrested people are guilty), which includes not directing any drug consumers to drug dealers, even if you are simply trying to do someone a favor. Police and prosecutors are humorless in getting Fentanyl and other particularly dangerous drugs out of unlawful circulation. Fentanyl is deadly, and too many people selling imitation Xanax, Percocet and other drugs are either doing so without knowing the Schedule I and II drugs that are actually laced therein, and even more often with the consumers not knowing. I am not permitted as a lawyer to provide people to provide a play-by-play of how to avoid getting caught committing crimes. I do, of course, repeatedly warn people of the risks of waiving their Fifth Amendment right to remain silent with police and all other government and court authorities, and their Fourth Amendment right to refuse police searches (so long as you only orally decline those searches, and do not physically interfere).
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Why Do I Defend People Who Even Sell Fentanyl-Laced Drugs?
Why do I defend in court people who sell Fentanyl-laced drugs (whether through Snapchat or elsewhere), when Fentanyl is deadly? It is insufficient to simply say?caveat emptor?/ buyer beware, but at least the repeated news of such Fentanyl lacing hopefully knocks sense into at least a good number of people to not use illegal drugs, because, for instance, you simply do not know the purity and safety level of that drug, especially if you do not see every aspect of its manufacture from start to finish.
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2 年BULLRUN unlocks for the NSA who distributes that into the various Viper, Cobra and Shark programs that law enforcement use. However with the advent of AI I believe it will be hard to prove who had control of someone’s digital ID, accounts and social media because the programs can run masking across the pages and the owner wouldn’t know what they are actually clicking. Deep fakes will also make it harder for testifying. A criminal could deep fake the witness by hacking the line to the court and have a digital doppelg?nger do the talking for them. I give it less than 3 years and the courts will be changing many laws in the digital space. Globally other countries see this in kidnapping and ransom events.