The short story: a buyer got into trouble somehow and told the police where he bought his weed. This was way back in the day where i was still selling offline, like 2-3 years ago. So the police decided to search my house all these years later and found about a mixed kilo of several kinds of drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Mostly it was weed though. So they took my laptop, mobile phone and the drugs obviously and i was arrested and sent to jail basically all within 12 hours.
After almost 8 months detention i was finally put before a judge and because i invested in a good lawyer and probably with a bit of luck as well i got off with a couple years probation.. Being in jail for the first time in my life and having done 8 months already probably helped my case too.
Here is the kicker though. The reason i got off this easy probably also has to do with the fact they "only" found one kilo of drugs at my house.. And they were not able to break the encryption on my laptop. If they did i would do major time for sure. It would show a drugtrade of some multiple magnitudes greater.
They did let me know that they will continue to try to break the encryption. So here is the ham question: what are my odds? Full size disc encryption and the Password is 20 characters long..
If it's your local PD they aren't breaking through any encryption lol