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Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social |
The whole blind mule thing has always pissed me off. At the midpoint of my prosecutorial career, when I was in a senior unit but still pulled some meat-and-potatoes cases, I got a case of an old Vietnamese man caught at LAX with a bunch of decorative slippers with heroin in the soles. /1
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Popehat
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/2 There was zero extrinsic evidence that he knew the drugs were there. No evasive tactics, no reports of nervousness or anything, no incriminating statements. They just waved him to secondary, found these slippers, found the heroin concealed in the soles, charged him.
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Thosw 🌮 🍹
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There’s a scene in the Billy Crystal/Gregory Hines movie “Running Scared” with a priest and nun coming back from Colombia with religious statues, suspected of being mules. They were released with a “so sorry we inconvenienced you” until one of the statues broke open. 🎶“Oh, Captain?!”🎶
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Marijo Cook
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I'm grateful you explained this. I was about to do a search on "no blind mules" to see if it was some kind of folklore I had just never heard before.
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I read a book on the early days of coke smuggling where they gave away a free trip to Columbia. Gave the winners all kind of fake company tschokies filled with coke. Then the winners had to come in for a photo shoot back in NY with the tschokies which were traded out during the shoot.
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