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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Thu Nov 29, 2018, 09:32 AM Nov 2018

Drug traffickers bribed postal workers to deliver cocaine during their mail run

Sixteen US Postal Service workers got sentences of between three to nine years in federal prison for accepting bribes to deliver cocaine on their routes in Atlanta.

Drug traffickers bribed the postal workers, sometimes with amounts as low as $250, to deliver drugs to designated addresses, the US Attorney's Office said in a statement this week.

US Attorney Byung J. Pak said:

"This important operation identified and prosecuted 16 corrupt individuals who chose to abuse that trust and instead used their positions to bring what they thought were large amounts of dangerous drugs into those same communities. To help pinpoint corrupt workers, federal agents used a confidential source who posed as a trafficker looking for postal employees to deliver cocaine and marijuana.

"The defendants agreed to deliver the packages and negotiated the amount of the bribes they would charge, while law enforcement agents watched from a distance and recorded the interactions," the US Attorney's Office said.

The workers found guilty range in age from 26 to 64. In addition to sentencing, they will pay hundreds or thousands of dollars in forfeiture and restitution.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/29/us/atlanta-postal-workers-cocaine-sentencing-trnd/index.html

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Drug traffickers bribed postal workers to deliver cocaine during their mail run (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Nov 2018 OP

Criminal drug industry needs enforcement pretzel4gore Nov 2018 #1

That's a mis-leading story. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2018 #2

In the linked article ... left-of-center2012 Nov 2018 #3

Thanks for the clarification. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2018 #4

pretzel4gore

(8,146 posts)

1. Criminal drug industry needs enforcement

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Nov 29, 2018, 09:46 AM

Nov 2018

of drug laws, to control supply, thus the price, of street drugs, and reap the easy profits. And when a few poor working people get busted do time and have lives ruined. ..that's. OK haha indeed neceasary to success.
(The info nailing the workers came from the dealers themselves probably ie see 'war on drugs' lol)

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

2. That's a mis-leading story.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Nov 29, 2018, 11:16 AM

Nov 2018

It describes a Fed. created sting using an undercover source to bait the postal workers, but the headline
makes it sound as if there were real drug traffickers involved.

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o help pinpoint corrupt workers, federal agents used a confidential source who posed as a trafficker looking for postal employees to deliver cocaine and marijuana.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)

3. In the linked article ...

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 29, 2018, 11:30 AM

Nov 2018

There were real drug traffickers.

“Federal agents learned about the operation in 2015, while working to take down a drug trafficking organization in Atlanta.
Drug traffickers targeted postal workers because their jobs made it less likely for them to be caught by law enforcement officials, federal authorities said.”

[Then the feds set up their sting operation]
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DU says we are supposed to keep our quotes from articles to a minimum (recommends four paragraphs)
Perhaps I posted the wrong sections, making it misleading.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

4. Thanks for the clarification.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 29, 2018, 04:35 PM

Nov 2018

I admit my brain does not fire on all cylinders until early afternoon.

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