San Jose bust, sounds like Chaletla's team

This is pure speculation but a lot of the details fit and it looks fucking ugly. Someone may have been busted in 2012 and working with LEO. My overly paranoid mind wonders if they gave LEO any PGP keys and they've been decrypting stuff for years.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/04/25/silicon-valley-drug-bust-shows-strong-ties-to-mexican-cartels/

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25639176/san-jose-meth-bust-leads-arrest-suspected-key


Comments


[10 Points] None:

Weapons along with thousands of dollars in laundered cash were also found.

I feel like whoever wrote this article doesn't understand how money laundry works. Wouldn't laundered cash be in a bank account, rather than sitting as cash in a meth lab?


[5 Points] None:

It says the one guy tried to grab the cops gun. Lol


[2 Points] None:

Bleh, I always hate hearing about how targets spend two years like in this case totally unaware of the investigation baring down on them. Even though I don't run any sort of meth lab and would not be a target like this crew was it's still enough to make a body paranoid.


[2 Points] srthrowaway993:

AoD and Chaletla are both missing and from California where these raids happened. Both sold very large quantities of Ice/Meth which these raids were targeting.

I don't think it can be a coincidence that both vendors go missing around the same time and all these large raids happened in their state targeting what both vendors specialize in..

AoD & Chaletla i hope this has not happened and you are both safe and laying low.

More info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/23qh7y/warning_chaletlatherealchaletla_has_either_turned/


[2 Points] igoturdox:

OK, this is what Im wondering. This information is vague, You know how big the population is CA is. I am just wondering like can someone say what they know for sure. He's missing, I understand.. but im sure many vendors knew when it was time to cash out and peace out, I dont remember a mass amount of people not getting their orders.. I hope it aint Chaletla, I just dont see how a connection could be made from this.


[2 Points] dnmaccount3333:

wtf with people coming out of the woodwork to say that C is mexican mafia? is it because the screen name is vaguely hispanic sounding? ya know, it is not even an actual word in Spanish in the first fucking place, but that's probably not relevant when you're making wild ass speculations in a fud campaign on multiple message boards. also not relevant to fud campaigns, but the dates of these arrests are completely wrong, unless C anticipated his impending arrest 10+ days in advance.

no one except C has a fucking clue what happened. i doubt the persons who handled the online opsec and online customer service were mexican mafia. let's just say the written english grammar and vocabulary is too good for the type of person that is an og violent thug in mm. not to mention figuring out and implementing the encrypted communications and file systems required. maybe the mm simply farmed out IT to an outsider and that is the only person online customers dealt with. maybe C is a cop and "they've been decryptying stuff for years" as OP suggests. i seriously fucking doubt that LEO would be distributing actual drugs for months/years (drugs that kill children! and puppies!) just to nab personal use or very small time dealer buyers. any of this shit is possible but it is wild ass speculation.

C going exit scam is very possible. heartbreaking, and doesn't really match past dnm history of exit scammers keeping up communications until everyone is 100% sure it's a scam to get every last btc they can, but possible. C being in custody is very possible, but remember that LEO can't keep their mouth shut. if they had C and knew of the online connection, there would be news about it. headlines like "SILK ROAD KINGPIN BEHIND BARS" with 4 different cops being quoted on how smart they were to figure it out, and how much property they stole/seized in the bust.

based on the opsec, i think it's very possible C is in custody and handling it correctly: not saying a fucking word, not producing one character of any passwords, making the government prove its case without any free help. however, if we EVER see btc from the last transactions go from C's wallet to ANY other wallet, and we never see media about a bust, we'll know it was a scam.


[1 Points] None:

Wouldn't you think they would mention something about the online dealings? Unless maybe the delat online and in real life and hadn't figured out that they were dealing online too? idk


[1 Points] NiggaKingKilla:

It's possible that they were shipping the ice out to Chaletla in Southern California, where he operated, but highly unlikely.

Why cook in the Yay Area where the shadiest properties run half a million dollars, when you still have to ship the dope 500 miles away? Why not just buy some raggedy house in LA to cook in?


[1 Points] thetinguy:

Investigators also found another lab that produced concentrated cannabis and other drugs, including meth, heroin, cocaine and marijuana.

lol