Small-time dealer busted

I just came across an article about a small-time dealer being busted. He was shipping and receiving packages through the USPS, arrested for picking up a package at the post office with handguns on his person and in his car (this is a big no-no; weapons and drugs and federal property don't mix, have someone in a follow car with the weapons).

Anyone have any clue to how he was busted? The article states time from custom interception to arrest was one day, seems fishy, plus the fact a case was already built. Is this old-fashioned legwork with agents identifying him after receiving packages and tracing him to the post office? Is there a possibility of NSA-FBI cooperation and parallel construction here? If anyone finds any relevant criminal complaints or warrants, please post below.


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[27 Points] GrandWizardsLair:

This is David "Digitalink" "Daviddd" Handel. He got busted after going to his post office to pick up a kilo of methylone several kilos of 2c-*s which had been flagged.

Edited to reflect corrections from Ethly and Lamoustache

The Grand Wizard remembers Daviddd organizing bulk buys for kilos of research chemicals from China and selling pretty big RC weight. ITGWRC some of those 2c-*s were explicitly scheduled even at the time he was selling them. So this is not a "small time" dealer but a major importer of Schedule I and II substances.


[18 Points] DnmAvenger:

Who the fuck carries a piece to the Post Office? Ha! Its not like you're going to the hood to score weight. Dumbass... he just made his problems even worse,


[10 Points] k9atemybuds:

The comments under the story are interesting. One of the people thought the article said he had two firemen one on his ankle and one in the car and then figured the fire dept. assisted in the arrest. What a dumbass! Lol.


[9 Points] lamoustache:

You might be interested in reading my take on it - The Silk Road Travellers which discuss Handel case among others and the previous "story", The 中文 Connection for background on the Methylone investigations.

Meanwhile, Handel plea agreement and sentencing order.

Handel nym on Silk Road is confirmed to be davidd


[6 Points] DarkNetTarget:

a kilo of methylone is hardly small-time...

whole situation sounds sketchy, why would he bring a gun to a post office.

Methylone is a shit drug too. I hate people who knowingly try and sell it as ecstasy/MDMA


[4 Points] DownVoteMeYahAsshole:

Wasn't he an informant here?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1yirsw/nebraska_man_has_been_charged_in_connection_with/


[3 Points] SecondChanceUsername:

TIL M1 is scheduled, and the feds actually care about it. I guess with that quantity they have to CD. And knowing that is was an idiot middleman with terrible common knowledge/OPSEC they figured it'd be a slam dunk conviction.


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[1 Points] soliketotally:

Why are you condoning traffics drugs with guns?