Genius Alert: Got It On 'E'-bay

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Smoking Gun.

[snip]

Memo to those considering entering the exciting field of Ecstasy production: It's probably not a good idea to set up 
your illicit drug lab via purchases on eBay, which apparently is being closely monitored by nosy Drug Enforcement 
Administration agents.

Federal investigators this week raided a New York City home after spending months monitoring online purchases of 
laboratory equipment and chemicals used in the manufacture of the popular club drug. According to a search warrant 
affidavit filed under seal this week in U.S. District Court, the eBay items were bought by a "Carlos Legrand" and 
delivered to a Queens home, where they were accepted by members of a family living there. Beginning last year, 
"Legrand" began purchasing flasks, chemicals, a "motorized tablet press," thermometers, a hotplate, and a "melting 
point apparatus" from assorted eBay sellers (some of the actual equipment is pictured below in images from recent eBay 
sale pages).

[snip]

More entertaining material here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0428062dea1.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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